Chinese Australians : : politics, engagement and resistance / / 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 aut...
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| 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. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Sophie Couchman
- 1 The Transformative Effect of Australian Experience on the Life of Ho A Mei, Hong Kong Community Leader and Entrepreneur / Pauline Rule
- 2 Chinese Political Values in Colonial Victoria: Lowe Kong Meng and the Legacy of the July 1880 Election / Paul Macgregor
- 3 The Chinese Empire Encounters the British Empire and Its ‘Colonial Dependencies’: Melbourne, 1887 / Marilyn Lake
- 4 Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts / Mark Finnane
- 5 Confucian Heritage, Public Narratives and Community Politics of Chinese Australians at the Beginning of the 20th Century / Mei-fen Kuo
- 6 The Rise of Labor: A Chinese Australian Participates in Bendigo Local Politics at a Formative Moment, 1904–1905 / Amanda Rasmussen
- 7 Anglo-Chinese and the Politics of Overseas Travel from New South Wales, 1898 to 1925 / Kate Bagnall
- 8 Chinese Politics in Darwin: Interconnections between the Wah On Society and the Kuo Min Tang / Julia Martínez
- 9 Chinese Australians and the Public Diplomacy Challenge for Australia in the 21st Century / John Fitzgerald
- Postscript: Beyond ‘Two Worlds’ / Jen Tsen Kwok
- Index.