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    Chinese procession at Sports Agricultural Grounds - Sydney, NSW, April 1897, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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    Alma Quon and her Joy Belles. Circa 1955: Dawn Smith, Molly Worrall, Gladys Torrens, Alma Quon, Valma Frecker, Moya Brown, Lotte Rehn, Gay Funston, Lorna Quon., c. 1955, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Funeral, 1920s, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Colin Raymond Goon, around 12-15 years with a ukulele, courtesy of F. Anderson (private hands).
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    Chinese Dancing Group - Hula Skirts. ca. 1936-37, c. 1936 - c. 1937, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Dorothy Chinn and Mrs Amy Moo Tong Young playing Chinese instruments, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Musicians from the Kong Chew Society, Melbourne, 1960s, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Portrait of three Chinese gardeners from Irvinebank, Queensland, 1908, 10 July 1908, by Milne, George, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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Published Resources

Books

  • Wang, Zheng-Ting, Chinese Music in Australia - Victoria: 1850s to Mid-1990s, Australia Asia Foundation, Melbourne, 1997. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • Wang, Zheng-Ting & Doggett, Anne, 'Chinese music on the Victorian goldfields', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 78, no. 2, November, pp. 170-186. [ Details... ]

Theses

  • Wang, Zheng-Ting, 'A history of Chinese music in Victoria', MA thesis, Department of Music, Monash University, 1995. [ Details... ]

See also

  • '[unidentified article]', Australasian Post, 23 October 1947. [ Details... ]
  • Wang, Zheng-ting, The Chinn Family and the Oriental Orchestra: A new stream of Chinese music, http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/chinn_family.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Wang, Zheng-ting, 'Chinese music during the Goldrush period in Victoria, 1851-1870', 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. 52-57. [ Details... ]
  • Williams, Jennifer (ed.), Listen to What They Say: An Oral History of Beechworth in the Twentieth Century, Robert O'Hara Burke Memorial Museum, Beechworth, 2002. [ Details... ]

Images

Title
Chinese procession at Sports Agricultural Grounds - Sydney, NSW
Type
Photograph
Date
April 1897
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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See also

Title
Alma Quon and her Joy Belles
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1955
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne?
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Title
Chinese procession with banners, lion and firecrackers
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Colin Raymond Goon, around 12-15 years with a ukulele
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Dancing group in hula skirts
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1936 - c. 1937
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Dorothy Chinn and Mrs Amy Moo Tong Young playing Chinese instruments
Type
Photograph
Control
N45-152
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Title
Mr Joshua Cheong, organist
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Musicians from the Kong Chew Society, Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Date
1960s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Three unidentified Chinese gardeners with musical instruments from Irvinebank, Queensland, 1908
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 10 July 1908
Place
Australia - Queensland - Irvinebank
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Unemployed men on verandah of Government Offices
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1930 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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