Asian Studies Program
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086
AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 3 9479 3596 Fax: +61 3 9479 1880 Email:cha@latrobe.edu.au
Asian Studies Program
Chinese Australia
Conference Program
SATURDAY 1st July 2000
8.00am - 8.45am Registration
8.45am - 10.15am SESSION 1 - OPENING PLENARY
Hosted by Helene Chung Martin
Introduction & Welcome
Senator Tsebin Tchen, Liberal Senator for Victoria
Opening keynote address
Professor John Hirst, La Trobe University
Keynote address -
Australian Federation and the exclusion of the Chinese Abstract...
10.15am - 10.30am - Morning Tea 1
10.30am - 11.45am (Session 2a)
10.30am - 11.45am (Session 2b)
Celebrating Federation: Who & Why?
Material Memories: Preserving & Interpreting Chinese
Australian Artefacts
Maurice Leong, See Yup Society, Melbourne
Role of the See Yup Society in Melbourne and Victoria Abstract...
Manual Tsiatsias, La Trobe University A Celestial parade: The Chinese celebration of Australian nationhood,
May 1901Abstract...
Raph Beh, Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo Chinese of Bendigo and the power of procession Abstract...
Basil Dewhurst, Australian Museums
On-Line and Doris Y.C. Jones, independent scholar, NSW Stories across a State: Golden Threads Project, NSW Abstract...
John Tully, Goldfields Historical
Society, Victoria The tragic autobiograhy of a Chinese miner on the central Victorian
goldfields Abstract...
Cheryle Yin-lo, Museums and Galleries
Foundation of NSW Sharing Chinese heritage and developing Chinese audiences for
Australian museums Abstract...
11.45am - 12.00noon - Morning Tea 2
12.00noon - 1.15pm (Session 3a)
12.00noon - 1.15pm (Session 3b)
Reforming China, Informing Australia (1)
Chinese Arts and Federation Australia
Dr Gloria Davies, Monash University Liang Qichao in Australia at Federation: A sojourn between
political defeat and intellectual productivity Abstract...
Professor John Fitzgerald, La
Trobe University Liang's Australian writings Abstract...
Professor Cai Shaoqing, Nanjing
University, PR China On Chinese secret societies in Australia Abstract...
Amanda Jean, architect and heritage
consultant Australian Federation architecture in the 'Chinese taste' Abstract...
Frank Bren, independent scholar, Melbourne Phantom Pacific: Chinese movies in Australia Abstract...
Zheng-Ting Wang, University of Melbourne Cultures in transition? Music and Australia's Chinese communities
in the early 20th century Abstract...
1.15pm - 2.15pm - Lunch
2.15pm - 3.30pm (Session 4a)
2.15pm - 3.30pm (Session 4b)
Reforming China, Informing Australia (2)
Pathways between Australia & China
(1): Death & the Spirit World
Hou Minyue, East China Normal University/La
Trobe University Australia-China relations in the late Imperial Period Abstract...
Maureen Rustichelli, Monash
University Edward Selby Little: Australia's Trade Commissioner and the
Chinese Republic Abstract...
Xing Jianrong, Shanghai Archives Bureau,
PR China W.H. Donald: Australian journalist and advisor to China Abstract...
Dr Kok Hu Jin, University of Sydney Beechworth temple summary Abstract...
Doris Y.C. Jones, Independent
scholar Where did they go once they left the Australian shore? Abstract...
Elizabeth Teather, University of
New England So you want to return to China after you die Abstract...
Pathways between Australia & China (2): The Documentary
Legacy
Dr Regina Ganter, Griffith University Mixed relations: Chinese Aboriginal interaction 1890s-1930s
Abstract...
Dr Julia Martinez, Wollongong University The construction of Chinese class in early 20th century Australia
Abstract...
Kate Bagnall, University of Sydney 'He would be Chinese still': Negotiating boundaries of race,
culture and identity in the late 19th century Abstract...
Michael Williams, University of
Hong Kong Documentary legacy of the first Federal parliament Abstract...
Dr Luxin Liu, La Trobe University The Tung Wah Times: A window into Chinese community history
Abstract...
Faye M. Young, Fox-Young Consultancy,
NSW Tapping into sources for researching the history of Chinese
communities in Australia 1880-1920 Abstract...
5.15pm - 6.15pm
LAUNCH OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY HISTORY RESEARCH
RESOURCES
Hosted by Helene Chung Martin
Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation Website
Chinese Australians: A guide to the Mitchell Library Holdings
Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo, Vic: Recent Developments
Reminiscences by Jong Ah Siug: An Autobiography of a Chinese
Miner of the Central Victorian Goldfields
SUNDAY 2nd July 2000
9.00am - 10.15am (Session 6a)
9.00am - 10.15am (Session 6b)
Creating
'White' Australasia
From Goldrush
to Federation: Marginalisation or Inclusion? (1)
Associate Professor Andrew Markus,
Monash University The impact of the White Australia policy on Chinese communities:
1901-1939 Abstract...
Kim Rubenstein, University of
Melbourne The influence of Chinese immigration on Australian citizenship
Abstract...
Philip Ferguson, University of
Canterbury, New Zealand 'Arrested development': The historiography of 'white' New Zealand
Abstract...
Dr Pauline Rule, Board of Studies,
Victoria The Chinese camps in Colonial Victoria: Their role as contact
zones Abstract...
Vivienne McWaters, independent
scholar, Beechworth, Victoria Poor John Abstract...
Rod Lancashire, independent scholar,
Albury, New South Wales A pre-Federation Chinese community in Wahgunyah, north-eastern
VictoriaAbstract...
10.15am - 10.30am - Morning Tea 1
10.30am - 11.45am (Session 7a)
10.30am - 11.45am (Session 7b)
Communicating
with White Australia
From Goldrush
to Federation: Marginalisation or Inclusion? (2)
Shen Yuan-fang, Australian National
University Australia through Chinese eyes - The Chinese perception of
Australia at Federation Abstract...
Carol Holsworth, independent scholar,
Bendigo Advertisements - A peep at the past Abstract...
Professor Wu Qianlong, Zhongshan
University, PR China Communication problems of Chinese immigrants in Australia during
and after the goldrushAbstract...
Jerome Small, independent scholar,
Melbourne Unions and anti-Chinese agitation on the Victorian goldfields
Abstract...
Barbara Cooper-Ainsworth, independent
scholar, Melbourne The Chinese community in Ballarat in the late19th century Abstract...
Robert Hess, Victoria University of
Technology 'A death blow to the white Australia policy': Australian rules
football and the Chinese community in Victoria, 1892-1908 Abstract...
11.45am - 12.00noon - Morning Tea 2
12.00noon - 1.15pm (Session 8a)
12.00noon - 1.15pm (Session 8b)
Political
Actors after Federation
Federation
Communities: Merchants, Workers & Women
Toylaan Ah Ket, independent scholar,
Sydney William Ah Ket - Reconciling occident and orient in Australia
during the early years of Federation Abstract...
Dr Paul Jones, RMIT What happened to the Chinese between the World Wars? Abstract...
Dr Drew Cottle, University of Western
Sydney, Macarthur Unbroken commitment: Fred Wong, China, Australia and a world
to win Abstract...
Michael Brumby, independent scholar,
Charters Towers, Queensland Doctor William Lam Pan and the Chinese legacy of the Charters
Towers goldfield Abstract...
Sophie Couchman, independent scholar,
Melbourne Selected women in Melbourne's Chinatown 1900-1920 Abstract...
Allan O'Neil, independent scholar,
Australian Capital Territory Chinese merchants and workers in the Northern Territory Abstract...
1.15pm - 2.15pm - Lunch
2.15pm - 3.30pm (Session 9a)
2.15pm - 3.30pm (Session 9b)
Transformations
in Australia: Chinese Religion & Medicine
Post-Federation:
Reuniting Family, Clan & Village
Denise Austin, University of Queensland Citizens of heaven: The contribution of Chinese Christians
towards Australian Federation Abstract...
Paul Macgregor, Museum of Chinese
Australian History Christianity, modernism and nationalism in Melbourne's Chinese
community, 1890s - 1920s Abstract...
Rey Tiquia, University of Melbourne 'Bottling' an Australia medical tradition: Traditional Chinese
medicine in Australia circa 1911 Abstract...
Helene Chung Martin, Monash Asia
Institute One village - two names: A Tasmanian Chinese on a wild dragon
chase Abstract...
Valerie Lee Rubie, independent scholar,
New South Wales Lee Hang Gong/Sarah Bowman family history research: A progress
report Abstract...
Kevin Wong Hoy, independent scholar,
Melbourne A letter from China: The Chan brothers of Long Gong village,
Zhongshan Abstract...
3.30pm - 3.45pm - Afternoon Tea
3.45pm - 5.00pm (Session 10a)
CLOSING
Henry D. Min-hsi Chan, University of
New South Wales From 'John Chinamen' to 'mild colonial boys': Chinese Australians
from Federation and the challenge for 'imaginary Australians'
in the 21st century Abstract...
5.00pm
Inaugural meeting of the Chinese
Family and Qiaoxiang History Group (Melbourne)