Overview
- Delves into Australia-China relationship
- Is also an attempt to explore the ways by which the two countries can reach some common ground for the future
- Written by Mobo Gao and Justin O' Connor
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book delves into the Australia-China relationship, which is currently at its worst since 1972, when the two countries first established a diplomatic relationship. Australia is seen by the US as its front-line ally in its fight in containing China. Derived from an international symposium organized by the editorial team and held in Adelaide, South Australia in September 2021, these essays are an attempt to offer some understanding and explanations for the deterioration of Sino-Australian ties. It is also an attempt to explore the ways by which the two countries can reach some common ground for the future. Despite our very different pasts, can we seek out a shared future together, a future that avoids a war, hot or cold, between a rising power of China and the incumbent US hegemon?
Reviews
“A timely, wide ranging and well informed contribution to the currently vexed and turbulent relationship between Australia and China. This collection presents the balanced but forcefully argued views of some of the best qualified scholars on this issue at a moment when such a book is crucial. An essential primer.” (Kerry Brown, Professor, King’s College)
“If you just want fast food off the China threat production assembly line, this is not the book for you. What this book delivers is that extremely rare commodity: a patient, dispassionate, cool-headed analysis drawing on insights from the authors’ life-long, dedicated research on China. If you want to see Australia-China relations improve, and if Australia’s public debate is to have any hope of going beyond media headlines and think-tank reports, this book is essential reading.” (Wanning Sun, Professor, University of Technology Sydney)
“As the world seems to be spiralling toward a new Cold War with China, this edited volume offers a useful corrective to what has been, at times, a hysterical over-reaction to the growth of Chinese global power. Featuring a number of Australia’s leading China specialists discussing the two country's relations, this volume could not be more timely or more necessary.” (Michael Dutton, Professor, University of London)
“This book is a timely stocktake of the spectacular collapse of Australia-China relations, and a strong riposte to the narrative that this was all China’s doing. With informed perspectives on questions of Australian security and identity, and the nature of today’s PRC, the authors pick apart simplistic depictions of an ideological stand-off and offer more compelling explanations for today’s rivalries and antagonisms. Anyone looking for an alternative to rising tensions and the reckless contemplation of war will find much to draw on in this volume.” (David Brophy, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mobo Gao is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Adelaide.
Justin O' Connor is Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of South Australia.
Dr. Baohui Xie is scholarly teaching fellow at the University of Adelaide.
Jack Butcher is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Different Histories, Shared Futures
Book Subtitle: Dialogues on Australia-China
Editors: Mobo Gao, Justin O’Connor, Baohui Xie, Jack Butcher
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9191-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9190-5Published: 14 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9193-6Published: 15 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-9191-2Published: 13 February 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, Asian Politics, History, general