The Life Of Quong Tart Or How A Foreigner Succeeded In A British Community
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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.
How A Foreigner Succeeded In A British Community
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Author : Margaret Tart
language : en
Publisher:
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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Author : Quong Tart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
The Life Of Quong Tart Or How A Foreigner Succeeded In A British Community written by Quong 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 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.
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. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between floorboards and ceilings, the assemblage is a unique archaeological record of institutional confinement, especially of women. The underfloor assemblage dates to the period 1848 to 1886, during which a female Immigration Depot and a Government Asylum for Infirm and Destitute Women occupied the second and third floors of the Barracks. Over the years the women discarded and swept beneath the floor thousands of clothing and textile fragments, tobacco pipes, religious items, sewing equipment, paper scraps and numerous other objects, many of which rarely occur in typical archaeological deposits. These items are presented in detail in this book, and provide unique insight into the private lives of young female migrants and elderly destitute women, most of whom will never be known from historical records.
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.
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.
Australia And The Wider World
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Author : Neville Meaney
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-30
Australia And The Wider World written by Neville Meaney 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 2018-08-30 with Political Science categories.
Since the 1960s Neville Meaney has been asking probing questions about social change and the rise of nationalism, especially as found in the making of Australia's self-image and its engagement with the world. His efforts to unravel what he once called 'the riddle of Australian nationalism' have raised important, and often unsettling, challenges for Australians. Bringing together the cultural, intellectual, political and diplomatic dimensions of the national experience, Meaney's work has been dominated by two overarching and interconnected questions: how Australians should resolve the tension between the 'community of culture' and the 'community of interest' and how they should reconcile their British heritage with their Asian moorings?
Returning Home With Glory
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Author : Michael Williams
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-16
Returning Home With Glory written by Michael Williams and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-16 with History categories.
Employing the classic Chinese saying “returning home with glory” (man zai rong gui) as the title, Michael Williams highlights the importance of return and home in the history of the connections established and maintained between villagers in the Pearl River Delta and various Pacific ports from the time of the Californian and Australian gold rushes to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Conventional scholarship on Chinese migration tends to privilege nation-state factors or concepts which are dependent on national boundaries. Such approaches are more concerned with the migrants’ settlement in the destination country, downplaying the awkward fact that the majority of the overseas Chinese (huaqiao) originally intended to (and eventually did) return to their home villages (qiaoxiang). Williams goes back to the basics by considering the strong influence exerted by the family and the home village on those who first set out in order to give a better appreciation of how and why many modest communities in southern China became more modern and affluent. He also gives a voice to those who never left their villages (women in particular). Designed as a single case study, this work presents detailed research based on the more than eighty villages of the Long Du district (near Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province), as well as the three major destinations—Sydney, San Francisco, and Honolulu—of the huaqiaowho came from this region. Out of this analysis of what truly mattered to the villagers, the choices they had and made, and what constituted success and failure in their lives, a sympathetic portrayal of the huaqiao emerges. Returning Home with Glory inaugurates the Hong Kong University Press book series “Crossing Seas”. “From the very local qiaoxiang or home village of migrants to the transnational destinations in America and Australia, this book is a model of how to write ‘diaspora’ into modern Chinese history. The Cantonese Pacific comes alive in this highly readable book that is sure to capture our imagination.” —Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University “A perceptively conceptualized and well-researched case study of an emigrant community in the Pearl River Delta that extended its reach to Sydney, the Hawaiian Islands, and San Francisco. Williams offers a refreshing qiaoxiang perspective through which to understand the experiences of Chinese immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” —Yong Chen, University of California, Irvine “This welcome study of Chinese mobility among settler societies of the Pacific places the family and the village at its heart, just as its subjects did over the century under review, to 1949. A path-breaking study based on first-hand research.” —John Fitzgerald, Swinburne University of Technology
Australia S Asian Sporting Context 1920s 30s
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Author : Sean Brawley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Australia S Asian Sporting Context 1920s 30s written by Sean Brawley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book examines Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australia’s Asian context. Concentrating on the period of the 1920s and 1930s – when sporting relationships between Australia and a number of Asian nations emerged in a variety of sports – this book demonstrates the depth of these previously under-examined connections. The book challenges, and complicates, the broader historiography of Australia’s Asian context – a historiography that has been strongly influenced by the White Australia Policy and the Pacific War. Why, for example, did white Australia so warmly welcome visiting Japanese sportsmen at a time when the Pacific region appeared to be inexorably sliding into a war that was informed by racial antagonisms? This book examines sporting relations between Australia and seven Asian countries (China, Japan, India, Netherlands East Indies, Philippines, Malaya and Singapore) and a range of sports including rugby, football, swimming, hockey, boxing, cricket and tennis. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.