Category: History

Multicultural Citizenship Re Imagined: Engaging Migrants form China By: Dr Wanning Sun, Dr Stephen FitzGerald

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.

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 merchant empire included some dozens of branch stores in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, New Zealand and…

– 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…

The 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…