Sydney University Press: Recent submissions
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Linguistic Nationalism and Its Discontents: Chinese Latinisation and Its Practice of Equality
Published 2020-01-01The perceived inherent tie between an individual, a nation and a language is central to linguistic nationalism, which began to appear in Europe during the 19th century and came to define the norm of political life in the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity, 1784–1935 [front matter]
Published 2020-01-01In the 18th and 19th centuries, relations between China and the West were defined by the Qing dynasty’s strict restrictions on foreign access and by the West’s imperial ambitions. Cultural, political and economic interactions ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity, 1784–1935 [front matter]
Published 2020-01-01In the 18th and 19th centuries, relations between China and the West were defined by the Qing dynasty’s strict restrictions on foreign access and by the West’s imperial ambitions. Cultural, political and economic interactions ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Gerald Murnane: Another World in this One
Published 2020-01-01Front matter only. 'Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One' coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Gerald Murnane's plain style
Published 2020-01-01The role of grasslands in Gerald Murnane’s fiction is as sustained and pronounced as his self-stated aversion to the coast and the ocean,2 and his uneasy forbearance of mountain ranges. Murnane’s narrative devotion to ...Open AccessBook chapter