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The Life Of Quong Tart
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Author : Margaret Tart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Life Of Quong Tart written by Margaret Tart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Chinese categories.
Quong Tart (Mei Guangda, 1850-1903) was born in Guangdong province and migrated with his uncle to Australia in 1859. After working on the goldfields he established a tea trading business and opened a chain of tea rooms in Sydney. He became the leading merchant and trader with China in 19th century Australia, and also a local community leader and philanthropist with established connections with political and social elites. He was a well-known and respected figure despite anti-Chinese attitudes and there was widespread shock when he was attacked and robbed in his Queen Victoria Building rooms. In 1886 Quong Tart married Margaret Scarlett who compiled, edited and composed the biographical account of his life in The Life of Quong Tart originally published in 1911.
Australian Mandarin
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Author : Robert Travers
language : en
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Release Date : 1981
Australian Mandarin written by Robert Travers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Quong Tart was one of the most fascinating and colourful characters of colonial Sydney. A Mandarin of the Blue Button, honoured by the Dragon Throne with the Peacock feather, he was at the same time a fine cricketer, an all-round sportsman, a staunch Freemason, and a spirited singer of Highland ballads, which he rendered in a fine Aberdonian brogue. He was a tea merchant. Robert Travers has used a wealth of contemporary material, including cartoons, and some truly awful doggerel, to bring to life colonial Sydney and the genial Quong Tart. Quong Tart struggled for years to stop the trade in opium. He lived at time of xenophobia, yet he was a popular citizen of Sydney. Throughout his life he was celebrated by some truly dreadful verse. His marriage to Margaret Scarlett was happy despite his mother's and her father's opposition. He was a sportsman, a businessman and a charitable man. Robert Travers writes of the life of this unusual man.
How A Foreigner Succeeded In A British Community
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Author : Margaret Tart
language : en
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Release Date : 1911
How A Foreigner Succeeded In A British Community written by Margaret Tart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Chinese categories.
Biography of Quong Tart, a man of Chinese descent who established a life and name for himself in Britain society in the late 1800s. Reproduced to coincide with the centenary of his death in 1903. Discusses his marriage, his role as a business man and public benefactor, his work on behalf of the Chinese, his views and work on the suppression of opium, his role as a sportsman, humorous remarks by him and about him, complimentary letters and addresses received by him, murderous assaults and citizens sympathy, names of contributors to the public testimonial, and his death and funeral. Includes photos.
The Life Of Quong Tart Or How A Foreigner Succeeded In A British Community
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language : en
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Release Date : 1911
The Life Of Quong Tart Or How A Foreigner Succeeded In A British Community written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Chinese categories.
Our Multicultural Heritage 1788 1945
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Author : National Library of Australia
language : en
Publisher: National Library Australia
Release Date : 1995
Our Multicultural Heritage 1788 1945 written by National Library of Australia and has been published by National Library Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Orphan Rock
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Author : Dominique Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Release Date : 2022-03-01
Orphan Rock written by Dominique Wilson and has been published by Transit Lounge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with Fiction categories.
Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney’s slums to the wide avenues of the City of Lights. The late 1800s was a time when women were meant to know their place. But when Bessie starts to work for Louisa Lawson at The Dawn, she comes to realise there’s more to a woman’s place than servitude to a husband. Years later her daughter Kathleen flees to Paris to escape a secret she cannot accept. But World War One intervenes, exposing her to both the best and the worst of humanity. Masterful and epic, this book is both a splendid evocation of early Sydney, and a truly powerful story about how women and minorities fought against being silenced. ‘Her writing is finely crafted, her prose poetic and subtle, and a joy to read.’ — Monique Mulligan
To Constitute A Nation
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Author : Helen Irving
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-13
To Constitute A Nation written by Helen Irving and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-13 with History categories.
This imaginative and resonant 1997 book looks at the constitution as a cultural artefact. It attempts to understand the period during which it emerged, culminating in Federation in 1901. Irving looks beyond the well-known events, places and figures to locate federation and the constitution in the context of broader social, political and cultural changes. She argues that Australians displayed an ability to reconcile the demands of pragmatism with the urge of romanticism. Despite its paradoxical construction, there is something uniquely Australian about the constitution, and it marked a utopian moment as the old century gave way to the new. Irving analyses the background and outcomes of the Constitutional Convention and considers its significance for Australia's possible future as a republic.
Migrant Cross Cultural Encounters In Asia And The Pacific
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Author : Jacqueline Leckie
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-11-03
Migrant Cross Cultural Encounters In Asia And The Pacific written by Jacqueline Leckie and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Social Science categories.
In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and ’settlers’ or ’sojourners’, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon – whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters – bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised thematically into sections focusing on ’imperial encounters’ of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ’identities’ in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and ’contemporary citizenship’ and the ways in which this is complicated by mobility and cross-cultural encounters, the volume presents studies of New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Vanuatu, Mauritius and China to highlight key themes of mobility, intimacies, ethnicity and ’race’, heritage and diaspora, through rich evidence such as photographs, census data, the arts and interviews. Demonstrating the importance of multidisciplinary ways of looking at migrant cross-cultural encounters through blending historical and social science methodologies from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, cultural geographers and historians with interests in migration, mobility and cross-cultural encounters.
An Archaeology Of Institutional Confinement
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Author : Peter Davies
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-29
An Archaeology Of Institutional Confinement written by Peter Davies and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-29 with Social Science categories.
The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world.
Destiny In Sydney
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Author : D. Manning Richards
language : en
Publisher: Aries Books
Release Date : 2012-07
Destiny In Sydney written by D. Manning Richards and has been published by Aries Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with Fiction categories.
DESTINY IN SYDNEY is an epic, multicultural novel of convicts, Aborigines, and Chinese embroiled in the birth of Sydney, Australia. Adventurous and opportunistic, Scottish marine Lieutenant Nathaniel Armstrong is in charge of convicts on one of eleven ships sent in 1787 on a perilous voyage from England to the other side of the world to establish a British penal colony. He lusts after fiery Irish convict Moira O Keeffe and surprises himself when he falls in love with her. Together they nearly starve in Sydney Cove while learning to farm the harsh land and deal with the Aborigines, whose lot is disease and unequal warfare. Armstrong descendants deny their convict heritage and oppose the Chinese who come for the gold rush. Three Fong brothers suffer violence and despair as they fight to forge a place for themselves. Duncan Armstrong, rich and powerful, helps pass the White Australia Policy in 1901 to keep out the Chinese, while his cousin Eleanor works for women s suffrage and a fair go for the Aborigines. Impeccably researched, this gripping dramatization of the true history of Sydney, Australia, is drawn from the writings of Australian leaders, soldiers, explorers, and settlers. Richards has mined Australian history for its action-adventure and applied his incomparable storytelling skills for a powerful, fast-paced read. The sequel novel A GIFT OF SYDNEY, available in late 2013, will continue the story of the Armstrongs and Fongs, and add the Hudson Aboriginal family, ending with the Summer Olympic Games held in Sydney in the year 2000.