Chinese Australians : politics, engagement and resistance

Chinese Australians : politics, engagement and resistance / edited by Sophie Couchman and Kate Bagnall.

In Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance key scholars of Chinese-Australian history explore how Chinese Australians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced the communities in which they lived on a civic or individual level.

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Other Authors: Couchman, Sophie (Editor), Bagnall, Kate (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Subjects:
Chinese > Australia > History.
Chinese > Australia > Social conditions.
Chinese > Political activity > Australia.
Immigrants > Australia > History.
Immigrants > Australia > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Chinese
Chinese > Political activity
Chinese > Social conditions
Immigrants
Immigrants > Social conditions
International relations
Race relations
Australia > Race relations > History.
Australia > Relations > China.
China > Relations > Australia.
Australia
China
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Editors' Note; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Transformative Effect of Australian Experience on the Life of Ho A Mei, Hong Kong Community Leader and Entrepreneur; Chapter 2 Chinese Political Values in Colonial Victoria: Lowe Kong Meng and the Legacy of the July 1880 Election; Chapter 3 The Chinese Empire Encounters the British Empire and Its 'Colonial Dependencies': Melbourne, 1887; Chapter 4 Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts.
  • Chapter 5 Confucian Heritage, Public Narratives and Community Politics of Chinese Australians at the Beginning of the 20th CenturyChapter 6 The Rise of Labor: A Chinese Australian Participates in Bendigo Local Politics at a Formative Moment, 1904-1905; Chapter 7 Anglo-Chinese and the Politics of Overseas Travel from New South Wales, 1898 to 1925; Chapter 8 Chinese Politics in Darwin: Interconnections between the Wah On Society and the Kuo Min Tang; Chapter 9 Chinese Australians and the Public Diplomacy Challenge for Australia in the 21st Century; Postscript: Beyond 'Two Worlds'; Index.

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