Australia and Asia: Cultural Transactions (ConsumAsian Series) Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The 'Impossible' Aesthetic: Asia and Australian Visual Arts	8
2	On the Beach, Until the End of the World	20
3	Postmodern Tristesse or Transacting Authenticity in Strange Places: Dennis O'Rourke's The Good Woman of Bangkok	33
4	The Orphan Complex: An Australian Myth Travels to Asia	52
5	Screening the Other Woman: Pozzan and Bretherton's As the Mirror Burns	70
6	Translation, Ethnocentrism and Cinema	83
7	Re-inventing the Killing Fields: Australian Press Coverage of Cambodia	101
8	Ad-sick, Love-sick, Home-sick	122
9	Looking For Love (In All The Wrong Places): The Production of Thailand in Recent Australian Cinema	143
10	The Australian Tourist Novel	162
11	Objects, Stereotypes and Cultural Exchange	176
12	Australia's Recent Visual Art Exchanges with Asia	196
	References	214
	Notes on contributors	226
	Index	228