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

• TeilnehmendeR: Couchman, Sophie,; Bagnall, Kate,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 The Transformative Effect of Australian Experience on the Life of Ho A Mei, Hong Kong Community Leader and Entrepreneur /; 2 Chinese Political Values in Colonial Victoria: Lowe Kong Meng and the Legacy of the July 1880 Election /; 3 The Chinese Empire Encounters the British Empire and Its ‘Colonial Dependencies’: Melbourne, 1887 /; 4 Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts /; 5 Confucian Heritage, Public Narratives and Community Politics of Chinese Australians at the Beginning of the 20th Century /; 6 The Rise of Labor: A Chinese Australian Participates in Bendigo Local Politics at a Formative Moment, 1904–1905 /; 7 Anglo-Chinese and the Politics of Overseas Travel from New South Wales, 1898 to 1925 /; 8 Chinese Politics in Darwin: Interconnections between the Wah On Society and the Kuo Min Tang /; 9 Chinese Australians and the Public Diplomacy Challenge for Australia in the 21st Century /; Postscript: Beyond ‘Two Worlds’ /; Index.; Journal of Chinese Chinese.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004288554
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sophie Couchman and Kate Bagnall.

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.