Over the last century and a half the competing merits of withdrawal from and connection to Asia—and the related vocabularies of separation and engagement—have been defining themes in Australian history. Experiencing Turbulence brings together a selection of publications on Australian representation of Asia, published in various journals and books in the last ten years that follow the publication of Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850 to 1939. Collectively they address key themes in the Australian response to Asia: survivalist anxieties, climate and race, population and immigration, empty Australia, gender and bush mythologies, and regional identities. These essays reveal the central, often constitutive role that Asia has played in the formation of ideas of nation and identity in Australia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The collection underlines the often unpredictable character of engagement and the fluid nature of fear and fascination, proximity and distance in the Australia-Asia relationship. With the recent publication of a government White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century there is a new determination to persuade Australians that “rising Asia,” turbulent though it may be, is an opportunity for Australia more than it is a threat.
Acknowledgements—Preface—Naming Asia: Locating the Region–Australian Dilemmas—The “Flow of Asia”–Vocabularies of Engagement:A Cultural History—Conspicuous Hospitality: Cultivating a New Racial Etiquette in Australia, 1930-1960—Nervous Outsiders: Australia and the 1955 Asia–Africa Conference in Bandung—Cultural Decline and Survivalist Narratives:The Battle for Civilisation—General Cariappa Encounters “White Australia”: Australia, India and the Commonwealth—Godless Heathen: China in the American Bestseller—The Curse of the Tropics—A Sunburnt Country: Reflections on Race, Whiteness and the Geo-politics of Settlement in Australia—A Burra Puzzle—Strange Reading: Keith Windschuttle on Race, Asia and White Australia—Bibliography—Index
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