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'Draws upon the growing interest in things Japanese following the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty in 1902. Japan, as Britain's new ally in the Pacific, soon dispatched a Training Squadron to Australia. From its first appearance in early May 1903 to its departure five weeks later in mid June, the Japanese Squadron attracted immense interest in the press and among the public. The reader encounters the narrator of The Coloured Conquest, Frank Danton and his fiancée, the lovely Mabel Graham, as they visit the Training Squadron during its visit to Sydney. Frank and Mabel later meet Japanese officers at one of Sydney's better north shore addresses. There is considerable enthusiasm for the visitors, so much so that the attention which young women shower upon the visitors troubles Frank [...] the Japanese soon overwhelm what there is of the British Fleet and invade Sydney. Once victorious, they establish "Fair Lily Colonies" where the most comely European women, including Mabel, are forced to cohabit with the Japanese'.
Source: 'Shooting Mabel : Warrior Masculinity and Asian Invasion'.
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Shooting Mabel : Warrior Masculinity and Asian Invasion
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 2 no. 3 2005; (p. 89.1-89.11) This article examines stories published around the beginning of the twentieth century depicting Asian invasions of Australia, and discovers consistent patterns of gendered and racialised assumptions setting Australian men, the bush and the future of the white race against Australian women, the city, and the asianisation of the nation. It argues that warrior Japan created a powerful case for an answering tradition of defiant, bush-based masculinity in Australia. -
Invasion
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 124-125)
— Review of The Celestial Hand : A Sensational Story 1903 single work novel ; The Awakening 1937 single work novel ; The Australian Crisis 1908 single work novel ; The Coloured Conquest 1904 single work novel
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Invasion
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 124-125)
— Review of The Celestial Hand : A Sensational Story 1903 single work novel ; The Awakening 1937 single work novel ; The Australian Crisis 1908 single work novel ; The Coloured Conquest 1904 single work novel -
Shooting Mabel : Warrior Masculinity and Asian Invasion
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 2 no. 3 2005; (p. 89.1-89.11) This article examines stories published around the beginning of the twentieth century depicting Asian invasions of Australia, and discovers consistent patterns of gendered and racialised assumptions setting Australian men, the bush and the future of the white race against Australian women, the city, and the asianisation of the nation. It argues that warrior Japan created a powerful case for an answering tradition of defiant, bush-based masculinity in Australia.
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1913
