Chinese in the Pacific: more ANU open access

One topic of growing interest to me is the role that China — PRC, Taiwan, diaspora, etc. etc. — is playing in the Pacific today. There are many reasons for this: PRC-based companies are growing increasingly active in Papua New Guinea’s mineral industry (which I study), and I’m married to a China scholar and so China/Pacific overlap is a no-brainer as an area for me to be interested in. So I am interested in — and thought you might be interested in — this new open access paper with four chapters by different scholars, entitled “Chinese in the Pacific: where to now?”:http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/occasional_papers/index.php?issue=01 published by the newly-formed “Center for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora”:http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/ at the Australian National University. This is the second post in a row where I’ve shilled for ANU, I know, but there _is_ a Savage Minds connections — they credit Savage Minds for hosting an “earlier version”:http://savageminds.org/2005/12/16/chinese-in-the-pacific-a-bibliography/ of “their expanded bibliography of Chinese in the Pacific”:http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/occasional_papers/cscsd_op1_8_bibliography.pdf (PDF link). Check it out.

Alex Golub is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He studies mining and petroleum development in Papua New Guinea, as well as American culture in to the online game World of Warcraft. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org