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The Annual Henry Chan Lecture 2024 delivered by Dr Jennifer Hsu “Navigating Chinese Identity in Australia in the 21stCentury”.

The Annual Henry Chan Lecture 2024 delivered by Dr Jennifer Hsu “Navigating Chinese Identity in Australia in the 21st Century”. Dr Jennifer Hsu is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Social Policy and Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Jennifer

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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

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seven boxes of bones

This 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

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