The Chinese in Papua New Guinea’s past, present and future

Abstract

Collections of essays derived from a conference or workshop often reflect the disparate interests of the contributors and organisers while introductions to such collections typically provide a degree of coherence and justification by outlining an encompassing foundational origin story. This collection emerged from a workshop held at James Cook University (JCU) in Cairns in early November 2020 that was funded with the explicit aim of enhancing research capacities within the social sciences and humanities at JCU. This partially explains the number of JCU contributors to the collection.