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    Aboriginal prisoners gathered outside prison [photograph], c. 1890 - c. 1900, courtesy of State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library.
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    Ah Yung and Chong Sium Li, Chinese sailors, Western Australia [picture], c. 1905, courtesy of State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library.
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    Members of the Chinese community in formal dress [photograph], c. 1930, by Illustrations Ltd., courtesy of State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library.
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    These are the four eldest children of May Chiew., c. 1927 - c. 1928, courtesy of B. Chiew (private collection).
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    Law Sung and Choo Sung, Chinese sailors, Western Australia [picture], c. 1905, courtesy of State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library.
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    This is May Chiew nee Leewood, eldest daughter of James (in wedding dress). Married Timothy Chiew, 1922, Perth., courtesy of B. Chiew (private collection).
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    Timothy Chiew
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Archival Collections

National Library of Australia - Picture collection

  • Axel Poignant exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982, PIC P1831 LOC R9B; National Library of Australia - Picture collection [ Details... ].

State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library

  • Battye Library picture collection; State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library [ Details... ].
  • Chung Wah Association collection of photographs, c. 1916 - c. 1953, BA1483, 89824P-89826P Vol. 246; State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library [ Details... ].
  • Collection of photographs showing the Perth decorations in honour of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, 1B; Hart, H.; State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library [ Details... ].
  • Government Photographer collection, 816B/B/5508; Western Australian Government Photographer; State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library [ Details... ].
  • Illustrations Ltd collection, 8292B/A/970-1; Illustrations Ltd; State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library [ Details... ].
  • Passey collection of photographs, 1848-1933 (bulk 1900-1910), 5323B; State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library [ Details... ].
  • Views of Perth, Fremantle, Albany and Aboriginal people, BA1341; State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library [ Details... ].

Published Resources

Books

  • Ganter, Regina, Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 2006. [ Details... ]
  • Ryan, Jan, Ancestors: Chinese in Colonial Australia, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 1995. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Atkinson, Anne, 'The responses of Chinese capital to social and eocnomic restrictions and exclusion in Western Australia', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 29-46. [ Details... ]

See also

  • Atkinson, Anne, 'The Socio-Economic Experience of Chinese Sojourners in Perth, Western Australia, 1900-1920', BA (hons) Thesis, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Sociology, Murdoch University, 1983. [ Details... ]
  • Atkinson, Anne (ed.), Asian Immigrants to Western Australia, 1829-1901 - The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australia, vol. 5, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, 1988. [ Details... ]
  • Atkinson, Anne, Fong, Sydney (1878 - 1955), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, 196 pp, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140210b.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Atkinson, Anne, Yuen, Gum (1875 - 1943), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, 606-607 pp, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160717b.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Birtles, Francis, 'Strange Australia: A series of out-of-the-way photographs of the North, with notes, by Francis Birtles', The Lone Hand, 1 December, pp. 158-165. [ Details... ]
  • Choo, Christine, 'Chinese presence and contribution to the communities in the north-west of Western Australia: An historical perspective', in Kee Pookong, Ho Chooi-hon, Paul Macgregor & Gary Presland (ed.), Chinese in Oceania, Association for the Study of the Chinese and their Descendants in Australasia and the Pacific Islands; Chinese Museum; Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 34-51. [ Details... ]
  • Chung Wah Association (ed.), Chung Wah Association 1910-1985 75th Anniversary, Chung Wah Association, Perth, 1985. [ Details... ]
  • Chung Wah Association (ed.), Chung Wah Association 1910-1995 85th Anniversary, Chung Wah Association, Perth, 1995. (Also available at http://www.nw.com.au/~ysyow/chungwah/85/content.html) [ Details... ]
  • Reynolds, Henry, North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2003. [ Details... ]
  • Ryan, Jan, 'Chinese immigration into the Colony of Western Australia: From a loose controlled system to prohibitive legislative control 1870-1901', BA (hons) Thesis, Department of History, University of Western Australia, 1983. [ Details... ]
  • Ryan, Jan, 'A study of the origins and development of Chinese immigration into Western Australia: the Colonial recruitment system and its effects on the Chinese from different dialect groups, as evidenced in the areas of law, morbidity and morality 1880-1901', PhD thesis, Department of History, University of Western Australia, 1989. [ Details... ]
  • Ryan, Jan, 'Chinese burials in Western Australia in the nineteenth century', Studies in Western Australian History, vol. XII, University of Western Australian Press, 1991, pp. 8-16. [ Details... ]
  • Ryan, Jan, 'It's a crime! Chinese immigrants and the law in Western Australia', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 341-353. [ Details... ]
  • Smith, W. Ramsay, In Southern Seas: Wanderings of a Naturalist, J. Murray, London, 1924. [ Details... ]

Images

Title
Wesleyan Chinese Sunday School, Western Australia
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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See also

Title
Aboriginal prisoners gathered outside prison
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1890 - c. 1900
Place
Australia - Western Australia
Details
Title
Ah Yung and Chong Sium Li, Chinese sailors
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1905
Place
Australia - Western Australia
Details
Title
Chinese display, French Comforts Day 9 November 1917
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 9 November 1917
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Title
Chinese lion
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Title
Chung Wah banner and unknown group
Type
Photograph
Date
1930 - 1939
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Title
Coolies camp and pearling luggers, 1908
Type
Photograph
Date
1908
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Title
Four eldest children of May and Timothy Chiew
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1927 - c. 1928
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth?
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Title
Law Sung and Choo Sung, Chinese sailors
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1905
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Title
May Chiew (nee Leewood) in her wedding dress
Type
Photograph
Date
1922
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth
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Title
Opening pearlshell on a lugger
Type
Photograph
Date
1919
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Title
Packing shell
Type
Photograph
Date
1919
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Title
Timothy Chiew
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth
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Title
Unidentified man
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Title
Wong Gin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1897
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Sources used to compile this entry: Ryan, Jan, Ancestors: Chinese in Colonial Australia, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 1995.