Author: Chinese Australian Historical Society
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Chinatown Walking Tour
Read more: Chinatown Walking TourKing Fong – pioneer of Chinatown Walking Tours Welcome to our exciting new series of discussions with a wide variety of researchers of Chinese Australian History.
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Conflict at Lambing Flat: Memory, Myth & History
Read more: 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 can we understand conflicting sources and changing narratives over time? Historian Dr Karen Schamberger has…
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Shirley Fitzgerald “Poison of Polygamy” book launch
Read more: Shirley Fitzgerald “Poison of Polygamy” book launchThe first novel of Chinese Australia, written 1910, translated 2019 by Ely Finch and launched by Dr Shirley Fitzgerald. read more
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A film about the Chinese-Australian experience
Read more: A film about the Chinese-Australian experienceThe Change – becoming Australian, the Chinese experience The premier of The Change at Sydney’s Star Event Centre heralds a fascinating new development in the presentation of Chinese-Australian history. Produced, researched, directed by and presenting Chinese-Australians the film gives us a very special perspective of Australia’s Chinese history. Largely based on the history and oral accounts of…
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Potstickers & Panning
Read more: Potstickers & PanningOpium Wars, conflict and fortuity — from Canton to Tingha via Ballarat — the separate journeys of three Chinese men, their interconnecting lives and interracial relationships.
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Otto Sing – First Chinese Australian Lawyer
Read more: Otto Sing – First Chinese Australian LawyerA 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 or barrister in NSW or any other Australian colony. After practising in Sydney for several…
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seven boxes of bones
Read more: seven boxes of bonesThis gem of a letter in the Tung Wah Coffin Home Archives was written and sent in 1934 by Bing Nam (aka Ping Nam), a well known Sydney Chinese merchant from Jung Seng (Zengcheng) to the Tung Wah Coffin Home in Hong Kong. Luen Fook Tong is the organisation based in Sydney for people from…
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History Week Talk 2017
Read more: History Week Talk 2017rom fish and chips shop staples, the Dim Sim and Chiko Roll, a wok in almost every household, the Aussie student staple of instant noodles, to the celebration of Chinese New Year, Australians have long embraced Chinese culture. Join Claudia Chan Shaw for a look a how so much of the Chinese DNA has become…
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Using the National Archives
Read more: Using the National ArchivesThe National Archives of Australia has many records, including CEDT’s, which will be of value in tracing your family history. Dr Michael Williams will provide an overview of the many archives generated by the Immigration Restriction Act that can assist you today
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“Chinese” Morrison from a Chinese perspective.
Read more: “Chinese” Morrison from a Chinese perspective.By visiting scholar Dr Bing Chen of Peking University. G. E. Morrison’s career in China can be divided into two stages, one being as the first and most prestigious resident China Correspondent from 1897 to 1912 for the London-based newspaper The Times, and the other being the chief political advisor from 1912 to 1920 to Yuan…
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[Chinese-Australian] History Week 2016
Read more: [Chinese-Australian] History Week 2016It is worth noting that this year there are four events for NSW History Week that are specifically devoted to Chinese-Australian History. Hopefully you can make it to one if not all! Neighbours Excluded: The Chinese of Papua New Guinea The Clan Associations of Chinatown From Canton to the colonies: Chinese women in 19th century…