Chinese Australians : politics, engagement and resistance

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Couchman, Sophie
• Bagnall, Kate

Publisher

Leiden: Brill, 2015

Language

English

ISBN

9789004288508

Series

Subject(s)

• AUSTRALIA-RACE RELATIONS-HISTORY
• AUSTRALIA-RELATIONS-CHINA
• CHINA-RELATIONS-AUSTRALIA
• CHINESE-AUSTRALIA-HISTORY
• CHINESE-AUSTRALIA-POLITICAL ACTIVITY
• CHINESE-AUSTRALIA-SOCIAL CONDITIONS
• IMMIGRANTS-AUSTRALIA-HISTORY
• IMMIGRANTS-AUSTRALIA-SOCIAL CONDITIONS

Notes

. . Index: p.309-320

Abstract

In Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance key scholars explore how Chinese Australians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced the communities in which they lived on a civic or individual level. With a focus on the motivations and aspirations of their subjects, the authors draw on biography, world history, case law, newspapers and immigration case files to investigate the political worlds of Chinese Australians. The book also introduces current literature and thinking about the history of the Chinese in Australia and includes a postscript that reflects on the importance of historical analysis to current day political science.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

x, 320 p.

Dimension

24 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction

Chapter One The Transformative Effect of Australian Experience on the Life of Ho A Mei, Hong Kong Community Leader and Entrepreneur-- Pauline Rule

Chapter Two Chinese Political Values in Colonial Victoria: Lowe Kong Meng and the Legacy of the July 1880 Election--Paul Macgregor

Chapter Three The Chinese Empire Encounters the British Empire and Its 'Colonial Dependencies': Melbourne, 1887--Marilyn Lake

Chapter Four Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts--Mark Finnane

Chapter Five Confucian Heritage, Public Narratives and Community Politics of Chinese Australians at the Beginning of the 20th Century--Mei-fen Kuo

Chapter Six The Rise of Labor: A Chinese Australian Participates in Bendigo Local Politics at a Formative Moment, 1904-1905--Amanda Rasmussen

Chapter Seven Anglo-Chinese and the Politics of Overseas Travel from New South Wales, 1898 to 1925--Kate Bagnall

Chapter Eight Chinese Politics in Darwin: Interconnections between the Wah On Society and the Kuo Min Tang--Julia Martinez

Chapter Nine Chinese Australians and the Public Diplomacy Challenge for Australia in the 21st Century John Fitzgerald Postscript Beyond 'Two Worlds'--Jen Tsen Kwok

Index

Exemplar(s)

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