Chinese Australians

Politics, Engagement and Resistance
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-28850-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Couchman, Sophie

Bagnall, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Note
List of Contributors
Introduction
Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance
Sophie Couchman
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 Martínez
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

Über Autor(innen)

Sophie Couchman, Ph.D. (2009), La Trobe University, is an Honorary Research Fellow at that university and Curator at the Chinese Museum in Melbourne. She has published on the history of Chinese in Australia, including co-editing After the Rush (2004).

Kate Bagnall, Ph.D. (2007), University of Sydney, is a Research Associate in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific in Canberra. She writes on Chinese-Australian history, specialising in the history of women, children and the family.