Dragon Tails: Re-interpreting Chinese Australian History

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Acknowledgements

The research for this article and the associated Dragon Tails conference was supported under Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP0667552) and Discovery Projects funding scheme (DP0880038) and the Monash Fellowship scheme.

Notes

¹Jennifer Cushman, ‘A “colonial casualty”: The Chinese community in Australian historiography,’ Asian Studies Association of Australia Review, 7.3 (1984): 100–13.

²Adam McKeown, ‘Transnational Chinese families and Chinese Exclusion, 1875–1943’, Journal of American Ethnic History, 18.2 (1999): 75.

³Ann Curthoys, ‘Does Australian history have a future?’, Australian Historical Studies, 33 (2002): 152.

⁴This dialogue includes a three-year ARC Discovery project focussed on transnational and comparative perspectives between Asian Australian and Asian American Studies (‘Being Asian in Australia and the United States’ [2008–2010]).

⁵ After the Rush: Regulation, Participation, and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860–1940. Eds Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald, and Paul Macgregor (Melbourne: Otherland, 2004).

⁶ Journal of Australian Colonial History, No. 6, 2004.

⁷Curthoys, Ann, Lan-hung Nora Chiang, and Henry Chan, eds., The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions: Proceedings. Australian National University. Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora., and Guo li Taiwan da xue. Aozhou yan jiu xiao zu. Taipei: Interdisciplinary Group for Australasian Studies (IGAS) and Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, 2001.

⁸Cushman, 101. These included key established researchers such as Henry Chan, John Fitzgerald, Ann Curthoys and Andrew Markus as well as important regional studies such as Cathie R. May, Topsawyers: The Chinese in Cairns, 1870–1920, Studies in North Queensland History; No. 6. (Townsville: James Cook University, 1984).

⁹Grace Karskens, Inside the Rocks: The Archaeology of a Neighbourhood. (Alexandria: Hale & Iremonger, 1999); Jane Lydon,‘any Inventions’: The Chinese in the Rocks, Sydney 1890–1930, Monash Publications in History; 28. (Clayton: Monash University, Dept. of History, 1999); Alan Mayne, Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape. (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2003); Benjamin Mountford and Keir Reeves. “Reworking the Tailings: New Gold Histories and the Cultural Landscape.” in Creating White Australia, eds., by Jane Carey and Claire McClisky. (Fisher Library: Sydney University Press, 2009).

¹⁰In Victoria, these include the Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria (CAFHOV), and regional Chinese Australian history groups and associated institutions in Beechworth, Ballarat, Bendigo and Ararat. The two Sydney-based organisations are the Chinese Australian Historical Society (CAHS) and Chinese Heritage Association of Australia (CHAA). In Queensland, there is the Brisbane-based Chinese-Australian Historical Association (CHA), as well as the Chinese Heritage of Northern Australia (CHINA) that holds biennial, multidisciplinary conferences in Cairns.

¹¹A case in point is that Henry Reynolds’ North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North. (Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2003), a book that features extensive discussion of the Chinese in Northern Australia, was widely available in Australian airport bookshops and other major outlets on publication.

¹²McKeown, 75.

¹³John Fitzgerald, Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007), 5.

¹⁴Adam McKeown, Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900–1936. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001); Adam McKeown, “Introduction: The Continuing Reformulation of Chinese Australians.” in After the Rush: Regulation, Participation, and Chinese Communities in Australia: 1860–1940. Otherland Literary Journal; No. 9., eds., Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor. Kingsbury: Otherland, 2004; Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882–1943, Asian America. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000); Curthoys, “Does Australian History Have a Future?”: 140–52.

¹⁵See page 91 of this issue.

¹⁶See page 138 of this issue.

¹⁷Jay Winter, ‘The Social Construction of Silence’, Public lecture at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. Hosted by the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, 19 November 2010. (http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/public-lecture-series/lectures/arts-public-lecture-ix-the-social-construction-of-silence-by-jay-winter/); Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. David Pears and Brian McGuinness (Abingdon: Routledge, 2001): 7.

¹⁸Joy Damousi, ‘History Matters: The politics of injury and grief in Australian history’, Australian Historical Studies, 118 (2002): 100.

¹⁹Damousi, 111.