Michael Williams

Michael Williams is a graduate of Hong Kong University, a scholar of Chinese-Australian history and a founding member of the Chinese-Australian Historical Society.

He is the author of Returning Home with Glory (HKU Press, 2018), which traces the history of peoples from south China’s Pearl River Delta around the Pacific Ports of Sydney, Hawaii and San Francisco. Michael is also the author of Australia’s Dictation Test: The Test it was a Crime to Fail which traces the administrative history of the White Australia Policy.

Michael has taught at Beijing Foreign Studies and Peking Universities and is formerly an Adjunct Professor of Western Sydney University. His website: Chinese Australian History in 88 Objects was shortlisted for the 2022 Premiers Digital History Prize. Michael most recent work is a history of the Robe goldfield walkers entitled: Every requisite for a campaign upon the gold-fields. His is the project manager of the Scattered Legacy national database of the treasures of Chinese Australian history.