Editors' Note
List of Contributors
Introduction
Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance
Sophie Couchman
Chapter One
The Transformative Effect of Australian Experience on the Life of
Ho A Mei, Hong Kong Community Leader and Entrepreneur
Pauline Rule
Chapter Two
Chinese Political Values in Colonial Victoria: Lowe Kong Meng and
the Legacy of the July 1880 Election
Paul Macgregor
Chapter Three
The Chinese Empire Encounters the British Empire and Its ‘Colonial
Dependencies’: Melbourne, 1887
Marilyn Lake
Chapter Four
Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial
Courts
Mark Finnane
Chapter Five
Confucian Heritage, Public Narratives and Community Politics of
Chinese Australians at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Mei-fen Kuo
Chapter Six
The Rise of Labor: A Chinese Australian Participates in Bendigo
Local Politics at a Formative Moment, 1904–1905
Amanda Rasmussen
Chapter Seven
Anglo-Chinese and the Politics of Overseas Travel from New South
Wales, 1898 to 1925
Kate Bagnall
Chapter Eight
Chinese Politics in Darwin: Interconnections between the Wah On
Society and the Kuo Min Tang
Julia Martínez
Chapter Nine
Chinese Australians and the Public Diplomacy Challenge for
Australia in the 21st Century
John Fitzgerald
Postscript
Beyond ‘Two Worlds’
Jen Tsen Kwok
Index
Sophie Couchman, Ph.D. (2009), La Trobe University, is an Honorary
Research Fellow at that university and Curator at the Chinese
Museum in Melbourne. She has published on the history of Chinese in
Australia, including co-editing After the Rush (2004).
Kate Bagnall, Ph.D. (2007), University of Sydney, is a Research
Associate in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific in Canberra. She
writes on Chinese-Australian history, specialising in the history
of women, children and the family.
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