Journal of Chinese Australia, Issue 2, October 2006

Events and publications: Current and forthcoming

Compiled by the JCA Editors

To contribute 2006-2007 events and publications or to submit a review of a recent publication or conference, please email the JCA editors at JCAeditors@gmail.com

EVENTS

And your petitioners humbly pray...: 150 years of petitions in Victoria

Included in this exhibition is an 1884 anti-opium petition. For further information about the exhibition got to www.prov.vic.gov.au/petitions/default.asp. Information about the petition is available at www.prov.vic.gov.au/petitions/race.asp.

Asian Australian Studies Research Network

The Asian Australian Studies Research Network is a new joint project between Australian National University and Monash University, from funding granted by ICEAPS (International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies). Go to www.asianaustralianstudies.org to find out more about the network, our activities and how you can become a member.

The network focuses on cultural production in three major clusters:

• Cultural heritage & community

• Film, literature & performance
• Visual arts & new media

For more information about AASRN, visit the website, or contact admin@asianaustralianstudies.org.

New E-Journal on Chinese Southern Diaspora

The Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora [CSCSD] at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, announces the appearance of a multidisciplinary annual electronic journal devoted to researching the Chinese southern diaspora in Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific region, from the earliest times to the present. For further information: http://csds.anu.edu.au.

Chinese in the Pacific: Where to Now?

The Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora (ANU) announces a one-day international workshop on Chinese in the Pacific, from the 1980s until the present. All are cordially invited, on Friday 9 March 2007. Would anyone interested in submitting a paper proposal (before 20 October) please check the CSCSD website (http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd) for further details.

Forgotten Faces: Chinese and the Law
This exhibition curated by the Public Records Office of Victoria will be showing at the Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre, 31-33 Lambert St (Western Hwy), Ararat from:
6 October - 30 November 2006 and
27 December 2006 - 28 February 2007

See www.prov.vic.gov.au/online/ for details.

PUBLICATIONS

Books, monographs and websites

Chung-Gon, Ai-lin, James Chung-Gon family website, http://www.chung-gon.com.

Couchman, S. (ed), Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories, La Trobe Asian Studies Papers Research Series, 11, Asian Studies Program, La Trobe University, 2005. Contributions from: Kevin Wong Hoy, Chris Lee, Robyn Ansell, James Twycross and Sophie Couchman (http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/cafhov/index.shtml).

Ganter, Regina, Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, 2006 (http://www.uwapress.uwa.edu.au).

Jones, Paul, Chinese-Australian Journeys: Records on Travel, Migration and Settlement, 1860-1975, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 2005 (see review in this issue).

Kok Hu Jin has published two books on Bendigo's Hung Men Handbook, a series of books on Chinese Cemeteries in Australia (currently 11 volumes), a series on Chinese Temples in Australia (currently 5 volumes) and volume on Chinese lodges in Australia, Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo, 2002-2005. List of his books available here.

Loong, Nikky (ed), From Greatgrandmothers to Greatgranddaughters: The Stories of Six Chinese Australian Women, Echo Point Press: Katoomba, NSW, 2006. Contributions from: Lily Ma, Dawn Wong, Noreen Cheong, Lisa Chan, Nikky Loong and Mimi Zou. (http://www.echopointpress.com)

La Trobe University and Chinese Museum ( Melbourne), Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia website, http://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au.

Public Record Office Victoria, Forgotten Faces: Chinese and the Law, online educational resource and travelling exhibition, http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/forgottenfaces.

Yee, Glenice, Through Chinese Eyes: The Chinese Experience in the Northern Territory 1874-2004, Glenice Yee, PO Box 2365, Parap, NT, 2006.

Ip, Manying and Murphy, Nigel, Aliens at My Table: Asians as New Zealanders See Them, Penguin Books: Auckland, 2005.

Theses

Austin, Denise A., '"Kingdom-minded" People: Christian Identity and the Contributions of Chinese Business Christians', PhD, Department of History, School of History, Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of Queensland, 2005.

Reeves, Keir, 'A hidden history: the Chinese on the Mount Alexander diggings, central Victoria, 1851-1901 ', PhD, Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2006.

Wong Hoy, Kevin, 'Becoming British subjects 1879-1903: Chinese in north Queensland', Masters by research, Asian Studies Program, La Trobe University, Bundoora, 2006.

Articles and book chapters

Ali, Bessie Ng Kumlin, 'Quong Tart and early Chinese businesses in Fiji ', Journal of Pacific Studies, vol.28, no.1, May 2005, pp.78-88.

Bagnall, Kate, 'Finding Chinese family connections in the National Archives', Australian Family Tree Connections, August 2005, pp.25-29.

Bowen, Alister, 'Gippsland's Chinese fish-curing industry: an ongoing archaeological study', Gippsland Heritage Journal, no.28, 2004, pp.45-50.

Breward, Ian, 'The Wesleyan mission to the Chinese in Victoria up to 1902', in Treloar, Geoffrey R. and Linder, Robert Dean (eds), Making History for God: Essays on Evangelicalism, Revival and Mission: In Honour of Stuart Piggin, Master of Robert Menzies College, 1990-2004, Robert Menzies College, Sydney, 2004, pp.75-86.

Couchman, Sophie, '"And then in the distance Quong Tart did we see": Quong Tart, celebrity and photography', Journal of Colonial Australian History, vol.8, 2006, pp.159-182.

Couchman, Sophie, 'Chinese Australian family photographs: Tock family and friends revealed through the camera's lens', Descent, v.35, pt.2, June 2005, pp.66-68.

'Customs and the Sym Choons: One Chinese Australian family's experience of the White Australia Policy', Document study and records, Vrroom (Virtual reading room) website, National Archives of Australia, http://www.vrroom.gov.au [search for 'Sym Choon'].

De Bolfo, Tony, '"China Blue": The Wally Koochew Story', Stories, Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation website, http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/koochew.htm.

Dwight, Alan, 'Children of the Dragon', 40 [Degrees] South, vol.37, 2005, pp.38-41.

Fitzgerald, John, 'Revolution and respectability: Chinese Masons in Australian history' in Ann Curthoys & Marilyn Lake (eds), Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ANU Epress, 2006 (http://epress.anu.edu.au/cw_citation.htm).

Fitzgerald, John, 'Transnational networks and national identities in the Australian Commonwealth: The Chinese-Australasian Kuomintang, 1923-1937', Australian Historical Studies, no.127, April 2006, pp.95-116.

Foord, Patricia, 'The three promises: Story of the Lew Shing Family', Stories, Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation website, http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/lewshing.htm.

Hoy Lee, Thomas, 'Thomas Hoy Lee: Remembering Stuart Town' (oral history), Stories, Golden Threads website, http://amol.org.au/goldenthreads/downloads/HoyLee.pdf.

Hu Jianqiao, 'Anti-Chinese sentiment and Australianness since the gold rush', in Chen Zhengfa, Looking Back and Forward: Selected Papers of the 8th International Conference of Australian Studies in China, Anhui University Press, Hefei, China, 2004, pp.325-333.

Jones, Doris Yau-Chong, 'Reading Chinese gravestones', Stories, Golden Threads website, http://amol.org.au/goldenthreads/downloads/gravestones.pdf.

Jones, Paul, 'A consequent gain in the tempo of effort': Chinese labour and Chinese industrial activism in Australia, 1941-45, in Greg Patmore, John Shields and Nikola Balnave (eds), The Past is Before Us, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and Business and Labour History Group, Sydney, 2005.

Jones, Paul, 'The view from the edge: Chinese Australians and China, 1890-1949' in Charles Ferrall, Paul Millar and Keren Smith (eds), East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2005, pp.46-69.

Kwan Hong Kee, Young, Stanley Herbert, Young, Harvey and Yee, Derrick, Kwan clan & Kwong Sing stories, Stories, Golden Threads website, http://amol.org.au/goldenthreads/stories/k&ks.asp.

Lee, Mabel, 'Mabel Lee: on being born a Chinese in Australia ', Overland, no.179, Winter 2005, pp.65-68.

Loh, Morag, 'Chinese' in Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, pp.131-132.

McGowan, Barry, 'Chinese market gardens in the southern and western New South Wales', Australian Humanities Review, vol.36, 2005, http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-July-2005/10McGowan.html.

McGowan, Barry, 'The economics and organisation of Chinese mining in colonial Australia ', Australian Economic History Review, vol.45, iss.2, July 2005, pp.119-138.

O'Neil, Allan, 'More cooperation and less conflict: Chinese-European relationships in South Australia 's Northern Territory ', Journal of Northern Territory History, no.16, 2005, pp.79-90.

Reeves, Keir, 'Tracking the dragon Down Under: Chinese cultural connections in gold rush Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand ', Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol.3, no.1, 2005, pp.49-66.

Reeves, Keir, 'Goldfields Settler or Frontier Rogue?: The Trial of James Acoy and the Chinese on the Mount Alexander Diggings', Provenance: The Journal of the Public Records Office of Victoria, no.5, September, 2006, http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance/no5/GoldFieldsSettler1.asp

Rootes, Trevor, 'Miners of the North-East', 40 [Degrees] South, vol.37, 2005, pp.42-45.

Stephenson, Peta, 'Beyond colonial casualties: Chinese agency in the Australian post/colonial endeavour', in Charles Ferrall, Paul Millar and Keren Smith (eds), East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2005, pp.366-387.

Walker, David, 'Strange Reading: Keith Windschuttle on race, Asia and White Australia', Australian Historical Studies, no.128, October 2006, pp.108-122.

Wilton, Janis, 'Objects and their stories', Stories, Golden Threads website, http://amol.org.au/goldenthreads/downloads/Objects.pdf

Wilton, Janis and Eisenburg, Joe, 'Learning from Golden Threads', http://amol.org.au/goldenthreads/downloads/LearningFromGT.pdf.

Wong-Hoy, Kevin, 'Chinese miners of the Buckland Valley', Ancestor, vol.28, no.1, March 2006, p.10 (Special issue on Chinese family history research).

Reviews

Choo, Christine, 'Review of Golden Threads: The Chinese in Regional New South Wales 1850-1950 by Janis Wilton', API Network Review of Books, issue 41, July 2005, http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=186317107X&issue=41.

Coppel, Charles A., 'Review of After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia, 1860-1940, edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor', Journal of Chinese Overseas, vol.1, no.2, November 2005.

Darnell, Maxine, 'Review of After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia, 1860-1940, edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor', Australian Historical Studies, no.127, April 2006, pp.243-244.

Rolls, Eric, 'Review of The Overseas Chinese in Australia : History, Settlement and Interactions: Proceedings edited by Henry Chan, Ann Curthoys, Nora Chiang', China Journal, no.49, January 2003, pp.221-222.

Tsen Kwok, Jen, 'Review of After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor', The Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol.52, no.1, March 2006, pp.136-137.

Turner, Bethaney, 'Review of Chinese Women and the Global Village by Jan Ryan', Journal of Australian Studies, March 2004.

Wilton, Janis, 'Review of Chinese-Australian Journeys: Records on Travel, Migration and Settlement, 1860-1975 by Paul Jones', History Australia, vol.3, no.1, June 2006, pp.22.1-22.2.

Wu, David Y.H., 'Review of Chinese Women and The Global Village: An Australian Site by Jan Ryan, Journal of Chinese Overseas, vol.1, no.1, April 2005.