Double Vision: Asian Accounts of Australia

Do

Australians care about what their Asian neighbours think of them - and does

it matter if they don’t? This collection of essays reveals that admiration

for Australia is not widespread, particularly among Japanese and Chinese

commentators. And how our Asian neighbours perceive Australia is important:

perceptions have a powerful effect on the way different societies respond to

one another.

As part of the Asian Accounts of Australia project, this volume addresses a

much-neglected issue and presents the views of pre-eminent scholars on how

Australia is perceived among Chinese and Japanese and what this means for our

future. Can Australia make the most of its opportunities to be well regarded

and influential in China and Japan or will we be dismissed as a derivative

culture, ignorant about our region?