{"product_id":"making-chinese-australia-by-mei-fen-kuo-9781921867965","title":"Making Chinese Australia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chinese press was the largest foreign-language press in Sydney over the late nineteenth century, and the only foreign-language press to publish without interruption from the 1890s into the 1920s. Yet the story of Chinese-language newspapers during this period of emerging Australian and Chinese nationalism has, until now, been left untold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a review of an especially bitter conflict that split the Sydney Chinese community in 1892, and ending two decades later with the establishment of the earliest political alliance between Chinese-Australian elites in Sydney and Melbourne, established to support the building of the Republic of China, \u003cem\u003eMaking Chinese Australia\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how the interpretations and narratives of journalists and editors of Chinese-Australian newspapers played a powerful role in shaping the social identities and historical awareness of Chinese Australians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the process of relating this important narrative, Mei-Fen Kuo employs relevant new historical and philosophical frameworks to initiate a dialogue between Chinese-Australian history and international and diasporic Chinese studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000678990060,"sku":"9781921867965","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7090773482872.jpg?v=1763295918","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/making-chinese-australia-by-mei-fen-kuo-9781921867965","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}