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    [Chinese man ?] Barney Hurn [?], 1870 - 1875, by American & Australasian Photographic Company, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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    Acrobatic performer, 1936?, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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    Ah Lee, 1870 - 1875, by American & Australasian Photographic Company, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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    Chinese Ah' Yung, 1870 - 1875, by American & Australasian Photographic Company, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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    C. War, 1870 - 1875, by American & Australasian Photographic Company, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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    Chinese men washing or scouring wool, c. 1884 - c. 1917, by Kerry and Co, Sydney; Kerry, Charles H., courtesy of Powerhouse Museum.
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    Chinese shopkeeper Kao On, 1870 - 1875, by American & Australasian Photographic Company, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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    Portrait of Nell Nomchong, an early Braidwood settler, wearing her mother's wedding frock, 1877 [picture], c. 1877, courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.
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    Lum Tock, c. 23 December 1918, by Sarony, Sydney, courtesy of S. Millard (private hands).
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    New (or Mew) Chum - Miss Smith's copy of a photograph of a chinese man (?), 1870 - 1875, by American & Australasian Photographic Company, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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Archival Collections

Chinese Museum

  • Quong Tart collection; Chinese Museum [ Details... ].

Peppin Heritage Centre

  • General collection; Peppin Heritage Centre [ Details... ].

Powerhouse Museum

Society of Australian Genealogists

  • Tart McEvoy collection; Society of Australian Genealogists [ Details... ].

State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library

  • Davis, W.H. Album of Photographs, 1900-1902, 1900 - 1902, ML A4467; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].
  • Holtermann collection; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].
  • Photographic album of Sydney and environs, including The Rangers, Mosman, ca 1875-1905, c. 1875 - c. 1904, PXA 841; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].
  • Photographs of Sydney - the streets, public buildings, views in the Harbour, suburbs etc., chiefly pre 1885; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].
  • Quong Tart Family papers, 1831-1940 pictorial material, c. 1885 - c. 1939, PXD 660; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].
  • Russell family carte de visite album, PXB 387; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].
  • Small Picture Collection; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].
  • Work and Play - images of rural life in NSW 1880-1940, Work and Play; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].

State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection

  • J.H. Harvey collection; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].

State Records New South Wales, Sydney Reading Room

  • Public Works; CGS 12487, Views taken during cleansing operations, Quarantine areas, Sydney, 1900, 1900; McCredie, George; State Records New South Wales, Sydney Reading Room [ Details... ].

Published Resources

Books

  • Fitzgerald, Shirley, Red Tape and Gold Scissors: The Story of Sydney's Chinese, State Library of NSW Press, Sydney, 1996. [ Details... ]
  • Fitzgerald, Shirley, Red Tape and Gold Scissors [Chinese language version.], 1996. [ Details... ]
  • Wilton, Janis, Golden Threads: The Chinese in Regional New South Wales 1850-1950, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW, 2004. [ Details... ]
  • Yong, C.F., New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1920, Raphael Arts, South Australia, 1977. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Bridle, Jack, 'Memories and information of the Chinese', in Compiled by residents and ex-residents (eds), Memories of Tumut Plains, Wilkie Watson Pty Ltd, Tumut, NSW, 1993, pp. 12-14. [ Details... ]
  • Wilton, Janis, 'Revealing the Chinese past of northern New South Wales', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 249-260. [ Details... ]

Journal articles

  • Bramble, Phillip, '"Too muchee dam lallikin": Chinese and larrikins in 19th century NSW', Locality, Centre for Community History, University of NSW, vol. 11, no. 2, 2001, pp. 19-23. [ Details... ]
  • Darnell, Maxine, 'Life and labour for indentured Chinese shepherds in New South Wales, 1847-1903', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 137-158. [ Details... ]
  • Hales, Dinah, 'Lost histories: Chinese-European families of central Western New South Wales, 1850-80', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 93-112. [ Details... ]
  • McGowan, Barry, 'The Chinese on the Braidwood Goldfields: Historical and archaeological opportunities', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 35-58. [ Details... ]
  • McGowan, Barry, 'Reconsidering race: The Chinese experience on the goldfields of southern New South Wales', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 36, no. 124, 2004, pp. 312-331. [ Details... ]
  • Williams, Michael, 'Brief sojourn in your native land: Sydney links with South China', Queensland Review, vol. 6, no. 2, November, pp. 11-23. [ Details... ]
  • Williams, Michael, 'Would this not help your federation', After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 (Otherland Literary Journal), vol. 9, 2004, pp. 35-50. [ Details... ]

Theses

  • Allen, Margaret T. (Toylaan Ah Ket), 'Chinese religion, Sydney, NSW in the 20th century: Changes resulting from encounter with Australian culture and christianity', BA (hons) Thesis, Department of Religious Studies, University of Sydney, 1981. [ Details... ]
  • Moody, Andrew, 'Gambling, opium and violence: Sydney's fragmented Chinese communities, 1888-1906', BA (hons) Thesis, Chinese/History, University of New South Wales, 2004. [ Details... ]
  • Williams, Michael, 'Brief sojourn in your native land: Sydney's huaqiao and their links with south China during the first half of the twentieth century', Mlit thesis, University of New England, 1998. [ Details... ]
  • Williams, Michael, 'Destination Qiaoxiang - Pearl River Delta Villages & Pacific Ports, 1849-1949', PhD thesis, University of Hong Kong, 2003. [ Details... ]
  • Wilton, Janis, 'Chinese voices, Australian lives: Oral history and the Chinese contribution to Glen Innes, Inverell, Tenterfield and surrounding districts during the first half of the twentieth century', PhD thesis, Faculty of Education, Nursing and Professional Studies, University of New England, 1996. [ Details... ]

See also

  • '[Chinese community in Glen Innes, New South Wales, celebrating the birthday of Emperor Guangxu]', Tung Wah Times, 24 August. [ Details... ]
  • Ah Ket, Toylaan, 'Confucian to Christian but always Chinese: Chinese religious practice in Sydney, 1880-1980', 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. 58-64. [ Details... ]
  • Bagnall, Kate, Two Languages, Two Cultures, Two Homes, http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/two_languages.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Bagnall, Kate, 'Golden shadows on a white land: An exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1885-1915', PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 2006. (Also available at http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1412) [ Details... ]
  • Chee, Suzanne & Tse, Angus, 'Yiu Ming Temple', 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. 104-111. [ Details... ]
  • Cottle, Drew and Keys, Angela, Building the bridge of solidarity: The politics of the Chinese Youth League in Australia, 1939-73, Journal of Chinese Australia, October, http://131.172.16.7/jca/issue02/13CottleKeys.html. [ Details... ]
  • Fitzgerald, John, The Guo Brothers and the Yong An Company (Cantonese: The Kwok Family and the Wing On Company), http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/guo_bros.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Fitzgerald, Shirley, 'The Chinese of Sydney, with particular focus on the 1930s', in Chan, Henry; Curthoys, Ann & Chiang, Nora (ed.), The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, Interdisciplinary Group for Australian Studies, National Taiwan University and Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Disapora, Australian National University, Taiwan and ACT, 2001, pp. 140-151. [ Details... ]
  • Florance, Robyn, The Chinese in Shoalhaven, Shoalhaven Historical Society Inc, Nowra, NSW, 2004. [ Details... ]
  • Hayes, James, ''Good morning Mrs Thompson!': A Chinese-English word-book from 19th century Sydney', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 113-128. [ Details... ]
  • Johnstone, S.M., Church Missionary Society in Australia and Tasmania, Geo. B. Philip & Son, Sydney, 1925. [ Details... ]
  • Lydon, Jane, 'The Chinese community in the Rocks area of Sydney: Cultural persistence and exchange', in Chan, Henry; Curthoys, Ann & Chiang, Nora (ed.), The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, Interdisciplinary Group for Australian Studies, National Taiwan University and Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Disapora, Australian National University, Taiwan and ACT, 2001, pp. 117-125. [ Details... ]
  • Lydon, Jane, 'Historical archaeology, cultural exchange and the Chinese in the Rocks, 1890-1930', 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. 7-20. [ Details... ]
  • McGowan, Barry, 'Chinese market gardens in southern and western New South Wales', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 36, July. (Also available at http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-July-2005/10McGowan.html) [ Details... ]
  • McGowan, Barry, From fraternities to families: The evolution of Chinese life in the Braidwood district of New South Wales (NSW), 1850s-1890s, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, vol. 2, 2008, 4-33 pp, http://csds.anu.edu.au/volume_2_2008/4CSDS2008Ch%201_McGowan.pdf. [ Details... ]
  • Reeves, Keir, 'Jacjung, Lee Heng', in eGold: Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia, http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00220b.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Wickham, H.F., 'China in Sydney', The Red Funnel, no. 1 August 1906, 1906, pp. 54-60. [ Details... ]
  • Wilton, Janis, 'The Chinese history and heritage of regional New South Wales', in Chan, Henry; Curthoys, Ann & Chiang, Nora (ed.), The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, Interdisciplinary Group for Australian Studies, National Taiwan University and Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Disapora, Australian National University, Taiwan and ACT, 2001, pp. 91-101. [ Details... ]

Images

Title
[Chinese man ?] Barney Hurn [?]
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Acrobatic performer
Type
Photograph
Date
1936?
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Ah Lee
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Ah' Yung
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales
Details
Title
C. War
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Chinese men washing or scouring wool
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1884 - c. 1917
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Chinese shopkeeper Kao On
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Dolly Nomchong wearing her mother's wedding dress
Type
Photograph
Date
1910?
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Title
Harry Fay and Ruby Wong Chee, Shekki, China, 1916
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1916
Place
China - Guangdong - Zhongshan (Xiangshan or Heongshan)
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Title
Jacob Gam with the Wyong Progress Association
Type
Photograph
Date
1906
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Wyong Creek
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Title
Lum Tock
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 23 December 1918
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
New (or Mew) Chum
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Quong Tart and his wife Margaret
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1892 - c. 1894
Place
Australia - New South Wales
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Title
Quong Tart in National Guard uniform
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900 - c. 1901
Place
Australia - New South Wales
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Title
Quong Tartan or He would be a Scots-man
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 28 January 1902
Place
Australia - New South Wales
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Title
Shopkeeper Kao On
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Temple priest, Tingha, late 19th/early 20th century
Type
Photograph
Date
1880s - 1920s
Place
Australia - New South Wales - New England - Tingha
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Title
Unidentified Chinese man
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Unidentified man next to a horse
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
Repository
State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library
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Title
William E.O. Chi with wife Hannah and baby
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1867 - c. 1868
Place
Australia - New South Wales
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Created: 11 July 2001, Last modified: 1 December 2006