Sydney University Press

www.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au Susan Murray | susan.j.murray@sydney.edu.au

Sydney University Press (SUP) is a not-for-profit, scholarly publisher of research-based books that engage, inspire and stimulate debate. At SUP, we believe in the value of research, the power of knowledge and the ability of books to change the world. Our mission is to enable, support and facilitate the dissemination of outstanding research.

POISON OF POLYGAMY

A SOCIAL NOVEL

Wong Shee Ping and Ely Finch (translator)

This novel of the Chinese Australian experience is a roller-coaster tale of blackmail, murder, betrayal and even a thylacine attack, partly based on real people, places and events.

• A unique Australian novel translated into English for the first time.

• Of special interest to readers interested in Australian history and literature, Chinese-Australian stories, and the history of Melbourne and the gold rush.

• Parallel English and Chinese text allows easy comparison and makes the book a great resource for language learners.

RELEASE DATE: 06/2019 ISBN: 9781743326022 RRP (AUD): $35.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 420pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Historical Fiction

MEATSPLAINING

THE ANIMAL AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY AND THE RHETORIC OF DENIAL

Jason Hannan (editor)

With the global zoonotic pandemic and biodiversity crisis in our hands, this book is timely and extremely valuable in this era of mass extinction.

• Meatsplaining sheds new light on how meat is produced and promoted, and how animal agriculture avoids questions about its impact on health, animal welfare and the environment.

• Timely and thought-provoking book for anyone interested in the wider impacts of how we eat.

• Australian, North American and European authors give an international perspective.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2020 ISBN: 9781743327104 RRP (AUD): $45.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 334pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Animal Studies

ANIMAL WELFARE IN CHINA

CULTURE, POLITICS AND CRISIS

Peter J Li

Peter Li explores, through the lens of Chinese policymakers and activists from China’s growing animal rights movement, the key animal welfare challenges facing China. These include animal agriculture, bear farming, and the trade and consumption of exotic wildlife, dog meat, and other controversial products.

• Highly topical and timely subject matter given COVID-19.

• Author is an expert commentator in the international media, and during the pandemic he has been interviewed by The New York Times and Forbes.com.

• Li, a Chinese researcher living in the US, offers a perspective often missing from both Western and Chinese discussions.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2021 ISBN: 9781743324707 RRP (AUD): $40.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 378pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Animal Studies

PATRICK WHITE'S THEATRE

AUSTRALIAN MODERNISM ON STAGE, 1960–2018

Denise Varney

In Patrick White’s Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White’s eight published plays. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts transforming Australian theatre over the last 60 years.

• Essential reading for anyone interested in Australian theatre, and for students and devotees of Patrick White.

• Illustrates the changes that have transformed Australian theatre practice over the last 60 years.

• Sheds important new light on White’s relationship to wider trends in Australian modernism.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781743327555 RRP (AUD): $45.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 212pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Literary Studies

SOUTH FLOWS THE PEARL

CHINESE AUSTRALIAN VOICES

Mavis Gock Yen, Siaomen Yen (editor) and Richard Horsburgh (editor)

South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and Hong Kong to Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin, Broome and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1800s, as told in their own words.

• This is a book that offers a new way to be Australian in this country, and casts Chinese Australians as the protagonists in their own stories.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9781743327241 RRP (AUD): $40.00 FORMAT: PB, ePub, 350pp RIGHTS: World ex ANZ CATEGORY: Asian Studies