As a mark of respect for the untimely passing of Vice President Malcolm Oakes this week, the Chinese Australian Historical Society has made the difficult decision to cancel the Henry Chan Lecture planned for 30 November 2023.
The CAHS Committee appreciates your understanding and will let you know the rescheduled date for the Lecture in the New Year.
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Navigating Chinese Identity in Australia in 21st Century – Henry Chan lecture – *Postponed until further notice
*** Postponed until further notice ***
Join us in person for this year’s Henry Chan lecture, Navigating Chinese Identity in Australia in 21st Century by Dr Jennifer Hsu, Senior Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales.
Australia and China marked 50 years of formal diplomatic relations at the end of 2022. While bilateral relations have suffered severe strains over the past few years, recent high-level meetings between Canberra and Beijing and Prime Minister Albanese’s trip to Beijing suggests relations are stabilising. Over the course of the last few years, people with Chinese heritage living in Australia have experienced a politicisation of their identity due to changing dynamics of Australia’s relationship with China. This talk will consider how Chinese identity in Australia is punctuated by politics and history. Dr Hsu will draw on her own personal and research experiences to reflect on what it means to be of Chinese heritage in Australia today.
Date: Postponed until further notice
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Tracing Chinese families in Queensland through records created by government agencies
Presented by Dr Hilda Maclean Dr Hilda McClean gives an overview of Chinese Australian history as it relates to those researching their family with special emphasis on Queensland related files and also those with both Chinese and Indigenous heritage. Read more
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Sun Kum Tiy
After service in the Ever Victorious Army under Lieutenant Colonel Charles “Chinese” Gordon during the Taiping Rebellion, Kum Tiy arrived in Sydney around 1864–1865. He immediately set up the merchant business Sun Kum Tiy & Company, Sydney. In time, his…Read more › Read more
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Chinatown Walking Tour
King Fong – pioneer of Chinatown Walking Tours Welcome to our exciting new series of discussions with a wide variety of researchers of Chinese Australian History. Read more
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Conflict at Lambing Flat: Memory, Myth & History
– a discussion with Karen Schamberger Known as a poor man’s goldfield, Lambing Flat became notorious for racist violence in the 1860s. How long did the violence last and why is it remembered as the Birth of White Australia? How…Read more › Read more
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Shirley Fitzgerald “Poison of Polygamy” book launch
The first novel of Chinese Australia, written 1910, translated 2019 by Ely Finch and launched by Dr Shirley Fitzgerald. read more Read more
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Otto Sing – First Chinese Australian Lawyer
A Presentation by Malcolm Oakes Otto Kong Sing (1871-1917) was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales on 9 March 1895. To date, no earlier person of Chinese descent has been identified as having been admitted as a solicitor…Read more › Read more
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