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...Tanna's brushes with the outside world have not always been happy. Explorers, whalers, traders and blackbirders snatching laborers for the canefields of Queensland all figure in the island's memory. Missionaries arrived in the 1840s; the sterner among them tried to stamp out the arranged marriages, kava drinking and other rituals that underpin Tannese kastom life. Today, a jumble of Christian groups still jostle for believers. But the history of contact is brief enough that the first local person to fly in a plane - a young woman sent because the chiefs were suspicious of the strange craft - is still...
...future of Australia in the world, we inevitably think of a world where China will play a much larger role," he said last month, in an address to Sydney's Lowy Institute for International Policy. "China's economic dynamism is something we feel palpably in this country." In the 1840s, thousands of Chinese indentured laborers and free settlers were drawn to a thriving colony. Today, 430,000 people, including merchant bankers, students, artists, gamblers and tourists, move between Australia and China each year; if Hong Kong is included, the figure almost doubles. China's rise is easing Australia's isolation...
...influence of Okyo's work can be seen in a series of rooms commissioned 80 years later and painted by late-Edo master Gantai in the 1840s. His screens, like Okyo's, each have its own theme; they are filled with dazzling gold reeds, rushes, trees and butterflies. But by this time, figurative depiction had become so sophisticated that the butterflies look real, as if they are ready to fly off the screen...
...instructors. His piece has been called, among other things, xenophobic. Such apprehension is understandable given the hyperbolic scapegoating of immigrants throughout history. It is understandable given the emergence of nativism and discrimination during other periods of large-scale immigration to the United States: whether from Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s; from China in the 1860s and 1870s; or from Eastern Europe at the turn of the century...
...turns out, refusal ran in his family. Gauguin's maternal grandmother, Flora Tristan, was a spiritual fugitive of another kind, a pre-Marxist socialist visionary who traveled across provincial France in the 1840s, preaching a gospel of class justice and the liberation of women. In The Way to Paradise (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 373 pages) Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, onetime presidential hopeful and perennial Nobel candidate, lightly fictionalizes their stories in alternating chapters, portraits of two literally kindred souls in revolt against the horsewhips and hypocrisy of the bourgeois order. Both of them rejected the world as they found...