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Locations of overseas donor to Chung Kok village hall, 1913 花旗大埠 / San Francisco (lit., First Port of the Land of the Flowery Flag) – 25, 波咑呿埠 / Port Darwin – 24, 雪梨埠 / Sydney – 63, 西澳洲埠 / West Australia – 13, 咩喱彬埠 …
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Regions in Chinese Australian history To date, over 185 individual places have been mapped on Scattered Legacy . For the purposes of this database the major cities have been designated as their own regions and separate suburbs or locations within these urban areas are ignored. Outside of these 24 regions have …
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Lowe Kong Meng (1831-1888), merchant and Chinese community leader, was born as a British subject in Penang, son of Lowe A Quee, merchant, and his wife Chew Tay. His forbears were natives of Sze Yap near Canton. He was educated at a high school in Penang and at 16 …
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打連義僑運動會足球隊 (Read from right to left as a traditional banner): 隊球足會動運僑義連打 Darwin Chinese Athletic Association Football Team
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Eddie Quong (1925–2006) was born in Pine Creek in the Northern Territory, one of thirteen children in a family with deep roots in the Territory’s Chinese community. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Darwin, where they worked a market garden in Parap, before relocating to Queensland …
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Built around 1905 by the Presbyterian Church of NSW the Mission Hall was where members of the Chinese community of Newcastle could learn to read and write English and hold Christian Church services. The first and only Newcastle pastor, the Rev. Kem Yee, conducted services and lessons for many years …
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The Reverend Fong Kem Yee, was a long-serving Presbyterian missionary to the Chinese community. Born in "Canton" he came to Australia in 1878 initially working as a gold miner. He was baptised at St John’s Presbyterian Church, Ballarat, in 1883 and then trained for mission work. From 1888 …
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Taam Sze Pui was a respected Queensland businessman who, like many others, arrived in Australia in search of gold and quickly learned how precarious that gamble could be. He recalled hearing rumours that gold had been discovered at Cooktown in inexhaustible quantities and, without verifying the claims, travelling with his …
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Yett Soo War Way Lee immigrated to Sydney from Dongguan in 1874 and, by 1878, had established Way Lee & Co., an importing business at 145 Hindley Street in Adelaide that grew into a substantial enterprise with branches in South Australia and New South Wales. Trading in tea, fireworks, porcelain, bric …
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Mr. Edward Chong operated a vegetable garden at Hookey's water hole, 4 miles southwest of Oodnadatta in the 1910s. SA State Library: Edward Chong, Oodnadatta [B 50491] • Photograph
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Andrew Leon was a prominent Chinese Australian businessman and agricultural pioneer who played a significant role in the economic development of North Queensland in the late nineteenth century. Born in China, probably in Zhongshan county, Guangdong, he arrived in Queensland in the mid-1860s after gaining experience in tropical agriculture …
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The Hap Wah (合華) plantation, financed by local and Hong Kong Chinese, employed 60 Chinese workers and was the first in the Cairns district to produce both cotton and sugar. A commemorative plaque to the plantation and its founder Andrew Leon can be found in the Earlville Shopping Centre …
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Our site explores the stories of Chinese people living and working in Queensland, before and after it separated from the colony of New South Wales in December 1859. Queensland's Chinese Past
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FIRE AT DENILIQUIN. CHINESE CAMP DESTROYED. DENILIQUIN, Monday. A disastrous fire broke out at the Chinese camp at 4 a.m. to-day, destroying between 20 and 30 habitations. The camp forms at the west end of the town a distinct settlement of a little village of weatherboard shanties used …
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Fan Tan (番攤) was a traditional Chinese gambling game widely played in Chinese camps and urban quarters in colonial Australia. It was a game of chance organised around a banker–player system and based on a simple numerical principle: counting in groups of four. Despite frequent condemnation by colonial …
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There have always been defenders of the Chinese - themselves, sympathisers and others The Chinese Question Cole Bakhap
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Deniliquin Cemetery Lacking amy remaining grave markers the record or burials has been used to create a list. That some at least of the burials were returned to China has been recorded (1886). Community members continued to carry out ceremonies until at least the 1930s. Source: John E. P. Bushby …
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Deniliquin & District Historical Society Museum 3 Macauley Street Deniliquin Entry Fees Entry to the museum is $5 Opening Hours Tuesday, Saturday 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Groups and special viewing by appointment Contacts 0428 359 297 Email Us - denihistorical@gmail.com
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Deniliquin and District Historical Society, Deniliquin & District Historical Society Museum - MGNSW Edward River Library, has a local history section and is where the Deniliquin Genealogy Group meet weekly Local History Edward River Library (nsw.gov.au) Contacts: Val Hardman 03 5881 3980
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Holy Triad Temple, Brisbane, 1948 Top Horizontal Plaque Transcription: 三聖宮 Translation: Palace of the Three Saints Right Banner: Transcription: 聖德通千里 Translation: "The Sage’s virtue reaches a thousand li (miles)." Left Banner: Transcription: 神恩遍萬方 Translation: "Divine grace pervades ten thousand …
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Ballard of Amoy Transcription Main Text (Right to Left): Title/Header: 墩子紅吱吱 李禧探訪 Lyrics: 墩子紅吱吱 打城倒離，番仔反， 鼓浪嶼做公館， 番仔爬上山， 城內任伊搬。 Side …
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Brewery market garden in flood. Deniliquin. late 1800s See: B. McGowan, Shoulder yokes and moon cakes: The Chinese diaspora in the riverina district of New South Wales, Australia, 1850 to the present, Published 2012 The first Chinese garden of any size was set up in the spring of 1864 by …
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Deniliquin Like many towns of the Riverina, Deniliquin once had a numerous population of Chinese people who worked as scrub cutters, market gardeners and ran stores. Today the main evidence is the record of numerous Chinese burials in the local cemetery - though no grave markers remain. A well preserved burning …
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Ballard of Amoy This document dates from perhaps 1900 but claims to be an oral history version of a ballad from the time of the aftermath of the British attack on Amoy during the First Opium War. Translation Title: The Fort is Glowing Red (Collected by Li Xi) The Ballad …
DetailsWatch tower letter (Letter) Full Transcription (Original Chinese) (Note: Text is read from right to left in vertical columns. Punctuation has been added for clarity. [...] indicates characters that are illegible or inferred from context.) [Right Section: The Complaint] 吾兄得知： 昨本村為籌款 建更 …
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Memorial, Weldborough Cemetery Across the top left to right 大清國 (Da Qing Guo) “The Great Qing Empire” Central vertical column 大伯公墓 “Tomb of the Great Elder Uncle (Da Bo Gong)” Many early diaspora communities built a communal grave , cenotaph , or shrine called 大伯公 …
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Ashfield and District Historical Society Quong Tart Memorabilia
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Quong Tart the prominent Chinese Australian merchant and well-known community member of the late 19th century lived with his wife Margaret and family at Gallop House, Ashfield.
DetailsA Note on the name Mei Quong Tart Quong Tart is often referred to as Mei Quong Tart in a effort to provide his full name. However this only manages to mangle two Chinese languages in order to produce a name in English the man himself would no doubt have …
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For merchants of the Chinese diaspora " ... by late Qing, purchasing rank was ‘the done thing’, the great highway to upgrading social status, as well as to creating a connection with officialdom that might advance personal affairs." James W. Hayes, Purchase of Degrees, Rank, and Appointment in Late Qing China: Some …
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Powerhouse Museum has a large collection relating to things Chinese and Chinese Australian, though not readily distinguished within the collection. The Powerhouse is one of the few institutions that makes an effort ot provide historical context to its items along with material details.
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Plaque owned by Quong Tart, 1895 This plaque is a formal display of the honour bestowed upon Quong Tart by the Qing Court. Central Column Transcription: 旨 賞 戴 藍 翎 Translation: "By Imperial Decree: Bestowed the honor of wearing the Blue Feather." Right Column Transcription: 光 緒 二 十 …
DetailsChinese wooden plaque owned by Quong Tart, 1895 By Imperial Decree: Bestowed the honour of wearing the Blue Feather. Received on the 3rd day of the 4th Month of the 20th Year of Guangxu. [May 7, 1894.] Respectfully received by the Official of the Fifth Rank by Brevet, Moy Quong …
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The collection is rich in research potential. Embedded within the provenance of the collection are the social, familial and business connections that describe Bendigo’s Chinese Australian communities. These networks extend outwards across Australia and internationally to southern Chinese villages, metropolitan centres like Hong Kong and Shanghai and across the …
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ANU Archives +61 2 6125 2219 archives@anu.edu.au https://archives.anu.edu.au/collections
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Queensland Museum has a large collection of Chinese Australian history related items, most of it undigitalised. Collection includes Fong On (Atherton), Kwong Sang (Toowoomba), Ravenswood, Albert St Chinatown - both archaeological.
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Burke Museum, Beechworth Located on Loch Street next to the Town Hall Gardens, the Burke Museum is open seven days a week, 10:00am to 4:30pm. Entry Adult: $8 Concession: $6 Family (2 adults and up to 3 children): $21 Indigo Shire residents: free Main Hall The heart of …
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At the Queanbeyan Museum we tell the stories of our region and the people who lived here in the days before Australia became an independent nation, right up until the present day. We open Saturday & Sunday afternoons 1 – 4pm . Admission is FREE – but donations are most welcome 10 Farrer Place …
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Chung Wah Association, Perth is a long running association and hosts many objects of historical value.
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The West Australian Museum has a small collection of Chinese realist objects, Most spectacular is the large banner donated by the Chung Wah Society.
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Bathurst District Historical Society The Bathurst District Historical Society Museum, Archives and Bookshop are located in the East Wing of the heritage listed Bathurst Courthouse, designed by Colonial Architect James Barnett. The Courthouse building is in the middle of the CBD of Bathurst and is just one of the many …
DetailsOperated by the Bathurst District Historical Society The Bathurst District Historical Society Museum, Archives and Bookshop are located in the East Wing of the heritage listed Bathurst Courthouse, designed by Colonial Architect James Barnett. The Courthouse building is in the middle of the CBD of Bathurst and is just one …
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Yow Sings Store YOW SING & CO. THE EMMAVILLE CASH AND CARRY Glen Innes Examiner, 29 June 1933, p.6. "a rnotor truck, owned by Yow Sing and Co." Glen Innes Examiner , 24 December 1936, p.4. " "Yow Sing" cup for junior boy athlete" - Emmaville Public School Glen Innes Examiner, 12 …
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A hand hewn wooden yoke. Date / period: 20th Cent Place of manufacture: Australia Maker / artist / author: Dimensions: l 1030mm Materials: Wood, fencing wire & steel chain Condition: As original, some borer affection Description: A hand hewn wooden yoke. This is a yoke of European design often mistakenly associated with Chinese despite …
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Wooden yoke made in European style mistakenly attributed to Chinese. This yoke is on display in the Bathurst Historical Society Museum and while it doesn’t say it is a ‘Chinese yoke’ it is in the ‘Chinese’ display case along with other objects associated with Chinese people. A number of …
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Yee Chong and Company Chinese Laundry and shops, William Street Darlinghurst, 1916. View of buildings spanning numbers 123 to 129 William Street with tram tracks and wood blocked road surface visible. The terrace building at the far left has the residential chambers run by Mrs W M Donaghey at 129 …
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Ruins of Chinese worker's dwellings located on Olde Milong. The Chinese single-jian dwelling located on Olde Milong is an important artefact of the Chinese presence in the Young district following the gold rush of the 1860s. The building and a similar nearby structure were evidently constructed as dwellings …
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Wing Sang Laundry in Castlereagh Street, Sydney in 1916. Two storey sandstone premises with stuccoed windows and ornate parapet with central plaque bearing the date 1875. Wing Sang Chinese laundry is at number 332, and on the left is the Oddfellows Building at 328. Source: City of Sydney Archives
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The West Australian Museum has a small collection of Chinese realist objects, Most spectacular is the large banner donated by the Chung Wah Society.
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This project involves the identification and translation of texts from the beginning of the Victorian gold rush to the establishment of relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China in 1972. Recognising the importance of providing these sources for Anglophone Australians, we will continue to publish translations related …
DetailsA memorial to all Chinese buried in the Weldborough cemetery erected by the Chinese community. By the early 20th century the tin mining villages such as Weldborough had been depopulated but their cemeteries remained. The Chinese community based in Launceston erected this memorial to those buried there and presumably also …
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Way Lee's Qing Dynasty Mandarin robe Way Lee was bestowed an official title by the Qing government. In his journey to China in 1887, he was appointed a fourth level Mandarin in recognition of his service to the Chinese migrant overseas. Source: Way Lee 100 years on
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Way Lee published an open letter in the South Australian Register in 1900 titled “The Chinese Question from a Chinaman’s point of view”. In 1900, Way Lee published an open letter in the South Australian Register , Thursday 8 November 1900, p.5, entitled “From a Chinaman’s point of …
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A rare image of a horse power irrigation system on a Chinese market garden. Negative number: 189554 Irrigation method on a farm at Eel Creek built by Wung Choo for irrigating his cabbages. (Description taken from Gympie Times, 25 December 1902)
DetailsLetter from Hon Way to his sons asking for subscriptions to help build a watch tower in the home villages. He emphasises their support is needed to that others will not "laugh at us”. NAA: A1, 1935/7020, Hon Way to Heg Ning and Heg Joong, 3 June 1915.
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War Sing & Co cabinet maker in Campbell Street Surry Hills, circa 1902.
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Chinese and strangers section at Wangaratta Cemetery Numerous graves in Chinese section plus Ah Ket family grave in general section. Not well reseached by local community. Groom, Jocelyn. Chinese Pioneers of the King Valley , Centre for Continuing Education, Wangaratta, 2001.
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Black and white photograph, dated 1926, depicting a local Chinese market gardener selling produce from the back of a horse drawn wagon. 'Our old Chinaman selling us vegetables Queanbeyan', black and white photograph, dated 1926. Of Broughton Place Queanbeyan, depicting a local Chinese market gardener selling his/her produce from …
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Earning money hawking vegetables and other goods was a common occupation for Chinese men. Two Chinese men in street with baskets alongside a building. Such sights were common around Sydney at the end of the 19th century. State Library of New South Wales, FL3313884
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The Vaughan Cemetery Chinese Section was established during the great Mount Alexander gold rush of the early 1850s. The cemetery is located on a small hill overlooking one of the richest spots on the goldfield (the junction of Fryers Creek and Loddon River). The cemetery was restored in 1929 using …
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US Consulate Map of Zhongshan, part of a series on the Pearl River Delta. US Consulate HK US Immigration law necessitated detailed interviewing of returnees from China which in turn necessitated detailed information on the districts and villages in China. This map is part of a series on all the …
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The letter was written in 1934 by Sydney's Ping Nam (aka Ye Bingnam), a well-known Chinese merchant from the county of Zengcheng to the Tung Wah Coffin Home in Hong Kong. The letter states that seven boxes of bones, containing the remains of 53 people, were being shipped …
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Tower built alongside the family home of Cliff Lee whose father ran a Fruit & Vegetable store in Kogarah, Sydney. It became common in the early 20th century for Overseas Chinese families to build defensive towers known as diao lou (碉樓) or guntowers as protection from bandit attacks. Those in …
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Tong King-sing’s Chinese-English Instructor produced in Canton 1862. Graeme Lau Gooey This is one of a number of phrasebooks and Chinese/English dictionaries produced and used in Australia and other places around the world where Cantonese speakers found they needed to communicate in English. Rather than a …
DetailsTiy Loy & Co General Store. Tiy Loy & Co General Store possibly located in Botany Road Waterloo.
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Thomas Bak Hap defends the Chinese community of Thomas’ Plains (Weldborough), 1883 CHINESE AND ENGLISH CAMPS, THOMAS PLAINS. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, -In a recent issue of your valuable and widely circulated paper I noticed a letter signed by Mr. Grant, referring to an article on the Chinese camp, Thomas …
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The Chinese Advertiser was the earliest bilingual Chinese-English newspaper in Australia. Early Chinese Newspaper in Australia: Trove Presents a New Perspective on Australian History, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Vol 7, 2014-15, pp 160-165 The Chinese Advertiser was the earliest bilingual Chinese-English newspaper in Australia, first appearing …
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The Chinese Times was Melbourne's first major Chinese newspaper, published in 1902. The Chinese Times was Melbourne’s first major Chinese newspaper, published for the first time on 5 February 1902. For the first three years Thomas Chang Luke (鄭祿 Zheng Lu) was the proprietor and editor until …
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The China Gift Store at No. 233A Rundle Street. "The China Gift Store" at No. 233A Rundle Street which opened in 1923 was owned by Gladys Sym Choon. The store sold Oriental Goods imported from China and agents in Australia. Gladys Sym Choon was a member of the Sym Choon …
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Tailing mounds, Ah Hack's claim, Bobs Creek, Mongarlowe. This is an example of a characteristically Chinese type of tailings mound. "Vertically stacked tailing mounds, in particular, are very strong evidence of Chinese mining activities." "... the main ethnically based distinction of any clarity concerned the elongated mounds of water worn …
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A bone handled sword possibly used in processions. While the sword is labeled "Chinese" it is in fact more likely of Japanese manufacture and is one of many mass produced in the late 19th and early 20th century for sale in the tourist market. Two possibilities exist as to how …
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Sue Wah Chin building (The Stone Houses) on Cavenagh Street, Darwin, This stone building, built in the 1880s, is the only building associated with Darwin's nineteenth century `Chinatown' which still survives. It is also one of only a handful of nineteenth century buildings of any sort that survive in …
DetailsLong term residents of Australia, although denied naturalisation were able to apply for their children to study in Australia. Many did so.
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Marking the site of original Stanley cemetery including Chinese burials. Stanley was one of many aluvial goldfields surrounding the Ovens Valley.
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Chinamans Road marks where once an alluvial goldfields were worked by Chinese miners. Originally a wombat hunting ground of the Waywurru people.
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DetailsSing Chong Laundry in Pitt Street Sydney, circa 1909. Single storey brick building with vaulted parapet, ornate wrought iron awning and canvas blind tied to support post. A workman is using a fire hydrant as a young man looks on. The shops have housed a General Dealer at 350, a …
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A recognition of the contribution of Chinese settlement to the Croydon Shire. Commissioned by the Croydon Shire this memorial by Atherton Tableland artist blacksmith, Hans Pehl, is located in a local park alongside a number of other memorials (indigenous / war) recognises that there was a Chinese presence in the region.
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See Poy House (1932), the home of Johnstone See Poy, who for more than 50 years was the general manager of Queensland's only Chinese Australian owned and operated large department store, See Poy & Sons. "See Poy House (1932), the home of Johnstone See Poy, who for more than 50 …
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Called a "Joss House" this construction in Sandgate Cemetery Newcastle appears to have been a memorial to the departed. Apparently erected in 1924 this memorial to the Chinese departed no longer exsists. It was reported erroneously to be a "Joss House". The Newcastle Sun, 21 October 1924, p.1. A …
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A Chinese Memorial was built in the 1980s to commemorate the arrival and enduring association Chinese-Australians have with Robe. The Royal Circus and Seawall Historic Site at Robe demonstrate the early development of regional ports and townships in South Australia and the role such places played in supporting the …
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A banner donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston to commemorate the erection of its temple in 1936.
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Wax wrapping paper used by Quong's Bakery. Donna Quong’s father Eddie owned a much-loved bakery in Chinatown. Donna, who worked in the bakery as a youngster, remembers the burns on her arms from putting loaves into the ovens. She spoke of discovering this long-lost piece of …
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Queensland Museum has a large collection of Chinese Australian history related items, most of it undigitalised. Collection includes Fong On (Atherton), Kwong Sang (Toowoomba), Ravenswood, Albert St Chinatown - both archaeological.
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The Powerhouse Museum collection hold over 200 items related to Chinese including the Wong Sat firm. The Powerhouse also once hosted the magnificent NSW Migration Heritage Centre , a virtual museum. Now only surviving as a web archive.
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Queensland’s poll tax prevented many Chinese crossing the border from the Northern Territory. Queensland’s poll tax prevented many Chinese people from crossing the border from the Northern Territory freely. Many nevertheless did so while others were captured and gaoled. Ironically it was the new Commonwealth's 1901 Immigration …
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Mount Gambier Chinese Market Gardener, Jack Lew Yet. 1926 Image courtesy of Mount Gambier Public Library
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Gordon Ma's Grandfather brought the phonograph out from China. There is a label 'Sincere Company' in the box. The phonograph was an item sold in the Sincere Department Store in China. Gordon Ma's grandfather brought it out from China. The phonograph was made by Columbia Graphophone Co. It …
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3000 Chinese labourers were involved in the construction of the Palmerston-Pine Creek Railway. At a fall Cabinet meeting held on Monday afternoon the Government decided to accept the tender of Messrs. Millar Brothers to construct the railway from Palmerston to Pine Greek. The amount of the tender was £605 …
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A Chinese brass padlock in the form of an animal together with a key (not matching). Date / period: 19th Century. Place of manufacture: China Maker / artist / author: Chinese Dimensions: Lock l 62mm h 52mm Key l 65mm Materials: Brass Condition: As original Description: A Chinese brass padlock in the form …
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Vegetable, Fruit, Fish and Poultry Markets in the Haymarket. General view of Vegetable, Fruit, Fish and Poultry Markets, Municipal Cold Storage and Municipal Stores in the Haymarket. In 1908, Sydney Municipal Council resumed terrace houses, mills and workshops spread over four acres bounded by Ultimo, Thomas, Hay and Quay streets …
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From a 1930s postcard showing the Overseas Chinese hotel at the busy river crossing from the Long Du district to Shekki, the Zhongshan capital and embarkation point by ferry to Hong Kong. By the 1930s the city of Shekki (石歧) was a major center for the Chinese Disapora with …
DetailsNotice of application for naturalisation of Charley Ah Yan, 1928. Despite having lived in Australia for over 40 years since he was 14, and with strong local support describing Charley as "quite an Australian", the response to the application was "it is contrary to the policy of the government to …
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The accounts book of NSW Chinese Merchant Society dated Guangxu 29th year (1903). The NSW Chinese Merchants Society (鳥修威華商會社) was founded in 1903. Its registered office was at 166 George Street, Sydney. The association was initially named '自由社' (Freedom Society) and structured …
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Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New South Wales Minute book. Commercial association reformed by the New South Wales Chinese Empire Reform Association to do charitable work, promote business relations among merchants and mediate disputes in the Chinese community. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce was founded after the formation of the …
DetailsA rare use of a colonial Naturalisation Certificate to obtain a Certificate Exempting the Dictation Test. Ah Sam was fortunate in being able to obtain naturalisation in the Colony of NSW in 1884 a few years before this became legally impossible for Chinese people. However, this did not mean he …
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Rare bilingual autobiography of a Chinese gold seeker turned successful businessman. Taam Sze Pui’s My Life and Work was published in its lovely bi-lingual edition that provides in a remarkably concise manner all the elements of family, village links, poverty, remittances, business and hard work that are the …
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Three Chinese men holding musical instruments. The image is labled: "Chinese gardeners who keep Irvinebank supplied with fresh fruit and vegetables." 10/7/1908. Nevertheless the most distinguishing feature of these three young looking men is that they are holding musical instruments.
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The Mount Wells tin mine was discovered in late 1881 and was worked by Chinese labourers. "a call made in December last was that money was wanted to pay the Chinese, with whom a contract had been entered into to raise the ' tin.' " Adelaide Observer , 24 March 1883, p.26 …
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Memorial to Chinese burials, Caryle Cemetery erected by the Victorian Chinese Memorial Foundation. In 2019 a monument to the Chinese people buried in the cemetery was donated and installed by the Victorian Chinese Memorial Foundation. This memorial displays the names of all known Chinese buried. Indigo Shire Council, Chinese Section
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Dam built supposedly by Chinese labourers in 1880 in Ootha, NSW. This dam is attributed to the work of Chinese workers, though the evidence for this is not certain. The heritage study report merely stating: "As well as tank sinking, the Chinese worked in gangs ringbarking trees. The Chinese were …
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"In the early days, the visit of an old Chinese called "Ah Foo" with his covered van and two horses was the main source of vegetable and fruit supplies. The visit was looked upon as one of life's highlights by the Shelley Children. The old hawker continued to …
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Large board of the Masonic Society in Chinese and English. After the 1911 revolution in China many of the various Hung Men or other brotherhood societies reestablished themslves as Chinese Masonic Societies.
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Chinese market gardeners in Darley area of Campbelltown, Adelaide. Ah Yeck and Quong Chung are listed as leasing Section 334 Block 1 in Darley (Paradise) from February 1905 to July 1906. This was prime market gardening land on the banks of the River Torrens. (Certificate of Title) CT 289 / 239 …
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A surviving Chinese market garden in Kogarah since 1850. Toomevara Lane Chinese Market Gardens is a heritage-listed market garden at Toomevara Lane, Kogarah, Bayside Council, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Rockdale Market Gardens and Chinese Market Gardens. It was added to the New South Wales …
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The site is still under production as a market garden and has some archaeological potential. The Kyeemagh Market Gardens are heritage-listed market gardens at Occupation Road, Kyeemagh, Bayside Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was established from 1892. It is also known as Occupation Road Market Gardens, Chinese Market …
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Arncliffe Market Gardens located in Banksia NSW The market gardens are located on 212 West Botany Street BANKSIA NSW 2216. The Arncliffe Chinese Market Gardens are of high significance for their association with the Chinese community and their demonstration of a continuous pattern of land usage since the late nineteenth …
DetailsRare picture of a Chinese market garden, Normanton. Chinese run market gardens were a vital part of most rural towns in a period of poor transportation. They were rarely featured in images however and this is a rare image taken only because of the visiting politician.
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Mr. Ned Chong in his vegetable garden at Hookey's water-hole, 4 miles south west of Oodnadatta.
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Chinese garden at Doctor's Gully, Port Darwin, NT, September 1883. Chinese garden at Doctor's Gully, hospital in background and Peel's Well, Port Darwin, NT, September 1883. Market garden in Doctor's Gully, near Peel's Well in Port Darwin, NT Peel's Well is associated with the …
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One of three Long Du / Lung Doo societies established in Sydney, Hawaii and San Francisco. "The greater number of Zhongshan people in Hawaii meant that organizations operating on a sub-county and even village level could also exist. These organizations included the See Dai Doo, Lung Doo Benevolent Society, Yung …
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Loong is Bendigo’s oldest dragon now housed in the Golden Dragon Museum. "Loong and his regalia form the start of an unbroken chain of three dragons that have been the centerpieces of the Bendigo Easter Festival and Chinese life in the region and across Victoria for over 120 years …
DetailsKang Youwei was thought to wish to visit Australia and this letter discusses how to use the Dictation Test to prevent that. As it was thought he could speak a number of European languages this is the first known contemplation of using the Dictation Test in a language it was …
DetailsThe Lee Tong Store was owned by Ah Chee, who left the store to Lee Tong when he died. Only two of the original five Chinese shops remain on the west side of O’Donnell Street, Wyndham. "Charlie Lee Tong Foo arrived in Wyndham in the early 1900s. He had …
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The general store operated by Chinese merchant Lee Hang Gong in Cavenagh Street, Darwin Chinatown. By 1886, Hang Gong and Yam Yan had storekeepers' licences for businesses on Cavenagh Street, and by 1887, they had purchased additional land on Lot 403 Cavenagh Street. Source: Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography https …
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Sam Lee's Laundry, Swift St. Albury Sam Lee's Laundry ran in Corowa and then Albury until 1956 when the owner left behind many documents of a business and personal nature. Many assume Sam Lee was rhe owner's name but it seem deriving from an American tradition many …
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Chinese laundry in Castlereagh Street Sydney, 1902. Two storey laundry shop with painted sandstone and slate roof with a skylight. Hopper windows on the right are slightly open but lower windows are boarded up. Overhead are many electric wires and tram tracks are shown in the wood blocked street. Source …
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Jimmy Win Wah was 83 years of age (or 72 according the the year of birth given below) when he died in Mt Gambier. He was 20 when he came to Australia, spent some years at Ballarat and came to Mount Gambier in the 1930s. He became known as the …
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Postcard of elderly Chinese men living in Harrietville. While most men of the gold rush period returned to China or married and established families some simply remained in place as aging prospectors or market gardeners. Often such men became very well known and became perceived as the "last Chinaman" in …
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A fine display centred on the Arrowtown gold mining community. A good collection with a strong effort made to see individuals rather than rely on a general “Chinese” identity. Lakes District Museum
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Barbering was a major part of the culture of Chinese people on the goldfields. "There are about one hundred and sixty-six millions of men in China who require to be shaved every day, and in this far off land there are several thousands who could not live in comfort …
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Kwong Yee On Cabinet Maker in Goulburn Street Surry Hills, circa 1909. On right, at 184 Goulburn Street is the two storey sandstone premises of Kwong Yee On, a Cabinet Maker and to the left at 150-172 are the warehouses of Hordern and Sons. Between are terraces with wrought …
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Kuomingtang Darwin branch meeting in 1932. The Darwin sub-branch of the K.M.T. was established on 5 May 1924 ( Northern Standard , 6 May 1924: 2; Fitzgerald 2007: 128). Selina Hassan was the secretary of the executive committee
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Kong Meng Historic Reserve is a historic mine site from the late 1800's. Majorca drew thousands of gold-seekers to rushes in 1863 just as diggings around nearby towns declined. Their first surface diggings soon gave way to complex networks of deep mine shafts, with a mass local workforce …
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Chinese section, Myrtleford cemetery. Myrtleford was a goldfield and afterwards tobacco and hops were grown by Chinese farmers among others. The original Chinese section was at the back end of the cemetery but expansion resulted in it ending up in the middle of the cemetery. The original grave markers have …
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Mrytleford was a goldfield and afterwards tobacco and hops were grown by Chinese farmers among others.
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Kuomintang building in Hanley Street, Adelaide. The KMT established branches around Australia and the Pacific to maintain close links with the Chinese Diaspora. Unlike Sydney or Melbourne this was not in a purpose built location. This row of stone terrace houses has street level verandahs whose posts are topped with …
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Junk, a Chinese style boat off Thursday Island. "When we think of the history of ship building in Australia, Chinese junks probably don’t spring to mind. Yet for a period from the 1870s to the early 1900s a fleet of junks operated in northern Queensland. At least some, if …
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“The Chinese presence in Torres Strait predates the establishment of a government settlement on Thursday Island in 1877. Oral tradition tells of Chinese junks visiting islands in search of bêche-de-mer. Chinese men were often employed as engineers, sailors, stewards and cooks on steamers and fishing vessels that …
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Decorative panels removed from one of the two Joss House at Harrietville, probably Mill Rd. Joss Houses were gorgeously decorated with colourful carved panelling, altar pieces and embroidery banners. As the Joss Houses were abandoned local residents often souvenired pieces which eventually found their way into the local museum. Bright …
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The burial ground has been in existence since at least 1863. A search of the records at PROV do not list this location as an official cemetery, nor can any reference to it be found in the Government Gazette, or contemporary newspapers. The burial ground also contains the remains of …
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Statues or figurines of common household gods mislabeled as from a Chinese temple. The two figures are not “deities from a Chinese temple” nor are they from the 1850s goldfields. Rather are popular folk figures known as Lu (right) and Shou — two of the “Fu Lu Shou” (福祿壽 …
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Joe Wah Gow House, Long Tou Wan "Towers, or diao lou (碉樓), were designed to provide a family with refuge in case of bandit attack. Of course, not all huaqiao would have been able to build such houses or towers, while others would have simply built a new and …
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“"Long Du (隆 都) is a distinct and easily identifiable qiaoxi- ang. The people of this area speak a dialect separate from the surrounding Cantonese speakers of most of Zhongshan and usually formed their own distinct organizations in the destinations. Long Du was also a qiaoxiang that sent a …
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J. Dundas Crawford was a Chinese speaker sent from Shanghai by the British government to report on the Chinese in the Australian colonies during the Palmer River goldfish in 1877. As the various Australian colonies developed their anti-Chinese immigration attitudes and then laws, their British imperial overseers took a …
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Shops in Commercial Street West, Mount Gambier. 1937 - J Lew Chinese Laundry Mount Gambier Library
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Incense Bowl, Hill End 三聖宮 “Temple of the Three Saints” or “Three Sages Palace”
DetailsBronze incense bowl, Hill End Museum, from Joss House. This heavy, well-made incense bowl is inscribed with the names of its donors, its manufacturer and the date it was made - 1904. Now in the Hill End Museum it was presumably donated to the temple in nearby Tambaroora. While 1904 …
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Images of Chinese miners without licences. In the midst of a text on the goldfields around Croydon and Georgetown appears a montage of photos mixing some specific to Chinese gold miners with some scenic ones and one of a group of Aboriginal people. The images are not referenced in the …
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Harry Chan Building, Cavenagh Street, Harry Chan Avenue, Darwin. The Chan Building was the eighth and last of the large government office blocks to be built in the centre of Darwin in the 1960s. It was known as Block 8 for the first ten years of its existence and was …
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Harrow, used by Chinese market gardeners in Wagga Wagga. The gardens were in the lagoon area known as North Wagga Island, although some gardens were located at the Chinese camp in Fitzmaurice Street.
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Sarah Lee Hang Gong passed away in 1911 in Darwin. She was buried in Pioneer Cemetery (also known as Palmerston Cemetery).
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A rare item from the Robe walk. This wooden cask in the possession of a family long resident near Edenhope on the Robe to the Victorian goldfields walk is one of the very few verifiable objects remaining from that walk. In the case of the box pictured, the family history …
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Golden Gully and Archway is a deeply incised man induced braided channel system. The Gully banks contain shafts and drives that demonstrate the mining techniques used by European and Chinese miners to reach gold deposits. Golden Gully and Archway is a deeply incised man induced braided channel system. The Gully …
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Golden Gate gold mining community sustained by Chinese market gardeners. Golden Gate was a small gold mining community sustained by Chinese market gardeners. "A noticeable feature is the number of Chinese stores. There are even Chinese butchers, and these are gradually gaining an ascendancy over the European butchers. Seems extraordinary …
DetailsGolden Gate gold mining community sustained by Chinese market gardeners. Golden Gate was a small gold mining community sustained by Chinese market gardeners. "A noticeable feature is the number of Chinese stores. There are even Chinese butchers, and these are gradually gaining an ascendancy over the European butchers. Seems extraordinary …
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An aqueduct wall built by Chinese gold miners near the banks of the Meroo River between 1855 and 1865. Gold was discovered in the district of Windeyer around 1850, and by 1858 there was a considerable Chinese presence in the district. This wall was built between 145 and 130 years …
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This embroidery belonged to Gladys Sym Choon who owned "The China Gift Store" at No. 233A Rundle Street, Adelaide. This embroidery belonged to Gladys Sym Choon who owned "The China Gift Store" at No. 233A Rundle Street which opened in 1923 selling Oriental Goods imported from China and agents in …
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Gilded frieze, Georgetown. This is most likley a section from the altar of the Georgetown Joss House erected in 1905 and destroyed by a flood after 1957. It shows a range of mythological animals and would have been part of a much larger carved and gilded piece.
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Memorial, Beechworth Cemetery Right Column: Transcription: 光緒九年二月吉日置立 Translation: "Established/Erected on an Auspicious Day in the 2nd Month of the 9th Year of Guangxu ." Western Date: This corresponds to the period around March 1883 . Center Column: Transcription: 中華國各 …
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A general memorial commemorating all Chinese people buried in the Beechworth cemetery.
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Market Garden in Guildford belonged to the Gay family which operated between 1920s-1950s. Gay family - In the early 1920s George Louis Gay (1870-1946) bought 23 acres of scrubland at Guildford, six kilometres south of Parramatta, to create a market garden which operated up until 1950. The market garden …
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Gate, Chinatown Sydney Looking south along Dixon Street pedestrian mall from near the corner of Goulburn Street in Chinatown. View showing crowds of pedestrians at re-opening of Dixon Street after closure and beautification. Dragon entrance gateway with Chinese characters and the words Understand Virtue and Trust. Nine Dragons Restaurant …
DetailsPoll taxes Poll taxes occupy a significant place in the history of Chinese migration to Australia, but what exactly they were and how they functioned is not always clearly understood. A poll tax is simply a head tax, a fixed amount charged to each person entering a colony. In nineteenth …
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Normanton gaol where many Chinese men who attempted to cross into Queensland were kept. Under South Australia the Northern Territory had a relatively large Chinese population. However after 1888 Queensland had enacted a poll tax similar to those in other colonies. This meant that Chinese people could not cross into …
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Furniture shop in Adelaide. These city buildings are undergoing changes. The furniture factory which is being demolished is to replaced by a garage. The building on the corner is to be painted and renovated. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 71 / South east corner of Hindley and Morphett Streets / July 15 …
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Fong Lee Jang and Company in Castlereagh Street Haymarket, 1916 Three storey sandstone building with parapet, originally the Freemasons Hotel at number 356, with the Chinese business name Fong Lee Jang and Company. Street off to the right is Campbell Street Source: City of Sydney Archives
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Racism and discrimination have taken many forms throughout Chinese–Australian history, and were, for long periods, an everyday reality. The modern term racism only emerged in the early twentieth century, when societies began to reflect more consciously on the nature and consequences of prejudice. Well before then, Chinese people in …
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Fang Cheong Loong & Company at the end of Cavenagh Street Darwin owned by Chin Toy. Although illiterate, Chin Toy left home when he was about 18 to find work in Hong Kong where he spent two years in a tailoring apprenticeship. After befriending a businessman there, he accompanied him to …
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The return of the bones of the deceased had strong religious significance.
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From the beginning of the Chinese diaspora it was considered of great importance that the bones of the dead be returned to their villages of origin. This 1862 request is one of the earliest indications of this practice. In the early 1860s, representatives of three Pearl River Delta counties approached …
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An example of the capacity of white Australians to imagine their history and heritage as white regardless of their actual history and heritage. The Australian Encyclopaedia published by Angus and Robertson in 1925 is remarkable for its entry under Chinese . This entry merely says: See Immigration Restriction . Under that heading …
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Dragon boat festival being held in Sydney. Dragon boat festival held in Penrith Valley in 2003. The event took place at the International Regatta Centre, a venue for the 2000 Sydney Olympic rowing and canoeing events.
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The dragon ball held at the Trocadero Ballroom in 1957. The Dragon Ball was organised by a group called the Young Chinese Relief Movement, which originally started to raise funds for the war victims in China in 1933-34. It was held annually to raise money for charitable causes in …
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Right Column — 增城聯福 Mandarin: Zēngchéng Liánfútáng Cantonese: Jang-sing Lyun-fuk Tong English: Lianfu Hall of Zengcheng Centre Column — 東聯義堂會 Mandarin: Dōnglián Yìtáng Huìsuǒ Cantonese: Dung-lyun Yi-tong Wui-so English: Donglian Yitang Meeting Hall / Association Hal Left Column — 東莞公 …
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Family collection of the Dep family, Broome. Includes, family photos from China, tools, pearl divers gear, China figurines, remittance cheques?, Certificate of Exemption paperwork, receipts (Chinese), rent book from 1928, property lists, box of dried noodles (555), image Margret Ah Dep grave Onslow, Pearl luggers ads 1945, address book (Sydney …
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Ah Young died of consumption, a common cause of death on the early goldfields of Victoria. His death certificate, filled in by his brother Ah Pow is unusually detailed. Ah Young, a miner aged 35, dies 4th of September 1863 of consumption, brought on by exposure to wet and cold …
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All the State Libraries of Australia hold valuable collections, many of which date back to their 19th-century foundations. Their holdings include objects and photographs of relevance to Chinese Australian history, although these materials are often not well categorised . As a result, any search using “Chinese” will usually produce a …
DetailsRight column 溢兑香港银两 “Exchanges Hong Kong silver.” (i.e., We cash/convert Hong Kong dollars/silver taels) Middle column 收买金沙价极相宜 “Buys gold dust at extremely fair prices.” (“Gold dust purchased at very favourable rates.”) Left column 色存 …
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Coin minted by the Clermont Anti-Chinese league, 1887 This medal was minted by the Clermont Anti-Chinese league for the Queen's Jubilee in 1887. Mr. O'Shea, "proposed to distribute Jubilee medals to the children of Clermont, the medals bearing on one side a medallion portrait of Her …
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City Mission Hall Chinese School A SCHOOL FOR CHINESE IN ADELAIDE, 1882-1924 R.C. PETERSEN History of education review.Vol. 31 No. 2 (2002) https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2845036105/view?sectionId=nla.obj-2853340987&partId=nla.obj-2845131909#page/n61/mode/1up City Mission Hall - visit by …
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Chinese Church, Chinese camp, Narrandera. "Many Chinese were Christian converts. In the 1890s a number of Chinese churches (or missions) and Sunday schools, were established in the larger towns such as Narrandera, Albury, Wagga, Tumut and Hay. Where separate Chinese churches or missions did not exist, the converts attended the …
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Chung Lee Furniture Factory in Crown Street Darlinghurst, 1901. 124 Crown Street Darlinghurst. Workshop of corrugated iron has all windows boarded up, and an electoral notice stuck on its wooden facade, urging electors to vote for P.E.Quinn. A small boy in a large hat stands at the gateway …
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The New South Wales Chinese Women’s Relief fund was formed in 1937 and was, according to its President Mrs J. A. Chuey, the first time ‘Chinese ladies have emerged from the privacy of their homes’ into the public. In the 1930s war waged in China as the then Japanese …
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The Colony of Victoria was unique in setting up a "Chinese Protector" in major goldfields. The experiment was largely a failure as the "protectors" either saw their job as harassing the Chinese into paying the various discriminatory levies or, as did Foster, they attempts to "protect" their authority was limited …
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The political and economic relationship between Australia and China has always shaped not only the lived experience of Chinese people in Australia but also the way their history has been perceived, recorded, and interpreted. In the earliest period, when China was regarded by Europeans as distant, exotic, and largely unknown …
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Chinese New Year / Luna New Year The Lunar New Year—traditionally the most significant festival in Chinese culture—has long been celebrated in Australia. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries these celebrations were centred within Chinese communities and were commonly referred to by European Australians as “Chinese New Year …
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Chinese Mission Church, Little Bourke Street, built in 1872 by the Wesleyan Methodists. “THE CHINESE MISSION CHURCH. In the centre of the Chinese quarter, in Little Bourke-street east, and situated a door or two above the Joss House, stands an unpretending building built of red and white bricks, which …
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The Chinese Masonic Society building at 18 Mary Street in Surry Hills, Sydney. The Chinese Masonic Society building at 18 Mary Street in Surry Hills, Sydney, was constructed in 1911. The Chinese Masonic Society grew out of the Yee Hing Company (also known as the Hung League), an anti-Manchu …
DetailsThe Chinese Garden of Friendship was built to symbolise the friendship between Sydney and its sister city, Guangzhou, to mark Australia’s bicentenary in 1988.
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The Chinese Australian Herald 廣益華報 was the first major Chinese language Newspaper in Australia. The Chinese Australian Herald 廣益華報 (Guangyi huabao) was the first major Chinese language newspaper in Australia. Published in Sydney, it first appeared on 1 September 1894. The Chinese Australian Herald …
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Not large enough or concentrated enough to be called a Chinatown, Normanton had a cultural precinct where most Chinese people lived. "Normanton ... had both Chinese-Aboriginal and Chinese-White mixed heritage families. The Chinese Family Landscape of Normanton remained very small with around 6 primary families identified over a sixty …
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Not large enough or concentrated enough to be called a Chinatown, Georgetown had a cultural precinct where most Chinese people lived. A Chinatown developed in Georgetown, on the outskirts of town, and very quickly grew to provide opium shops, boarding houses, stores, a butcher and bakers. Men provided services as …
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Chinatown in Cavanagh Street, Darwin The Australian city of Darwin was home to a Chinatown when "... 186 Chinese workers arrived in 1874 by ship from Singapore, until World War II."[1] In Darwin, the Chinese faced racial discrimination much more compared to the rest of Australia. Darwin's Chinatown was …
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Just outside the modern Croydon settlement can be seen the main residential area of its earlier Chinese population which includes shops, a Joss House, pig oven and a caretakers hut. Most Chinatowns or Chinese camps have disappeared under modern developments so the site at Croydon while largely destroyed is nevertheless …
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The garden was developed in recognition of the contribution of the Chinese community to the settlement of Young in the 1860s and the ongoing contribution of the Chinese people to Australia as a Nation. "The discovery of gold on Australian fields in the mid 1800’s attracted great interest from …
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A blog by historian Dr Kate Bagnall focused on: “legal histories of nationality and citizenship; histories of women, children and the family; Chinese communities in the Tasman world; the White Australia policy and colonial Chinese restriction policies; transnational lives and qiaoxiang ties; Chinese Australasian documentary heritage.” The Tiger’s Mouth
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The Chinese Museum is a significant repository of artefacts, which mainly comprise objects, textiles, documents and images, related to the history of Chinese people in Australia and their descendants. Its main collection covers various themes, including the Gold Rush, Chinese Families, Community and Identity, and Chinese Traditions and Creative Arts …
DetailsThe collection is rich in research potential. Embedded within the provenance of the collection are the social, familial and business connections that describe Bendigo’s Chinese Australian communities. These networks extend outwards across Australia and internationally to southern Chinese villages, metropolitan centres like Hong Kong and Shanghai and across the …
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Naturalisation / Citizenship For most of the colonial period, and indeed until 1949, there was no such thing as Australian citizenship. All people in Australia were legally British subjects. Within the individual colonies, migrants could apply to be naturalised as British subjects, and many Chinese residents did so, especially in the …
DetailsNaturalisation letter of Chin Toy (1863-1947) It was on 27 October 1884 that Chin Toy, or Ching Toy as his Letter of Naturalization shows, at the age of 20 years and after spending a period of 18 months as a resident of South Australia was granted naturalization. On a …
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Chin Ah Quan store, Cossack. Ah Quan ran a small store at Cossack and when he died in May 1885 without relatives or will his estate was assesed by the Government Resident at Roebourne. Legal documents referring to him as “Ah Quan a Chinaman", though his real name was Chin …
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Character reference to accompany Sym Choon's application for the certificate of exemption of dictation test (CEDT) in 1921. In 1921, John Sym Choon took his children Gladys and Gordon on a business trip to China. A character reference for Sym Choon and his daughter Gladys Sym Choon from Fred …
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Republic of China consul registration card of Yu Ah Ming. The Republic of China regarded overseas Chinese people, even when born overseas, as China citizens. China consuls attempted to maintain a register of such people in Australia.
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Certificate of the land leased by Soo War Way and Yee Sing in Section 269 of Adelaide Soo War Way and Yee Sing are related to land in Section 269 of Adelaide, there is mention of it in a book named “The Paddocks Beneath: A History of Burnside from the …
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Certificate of land owned by William Philipp Hill in Knoxville (now Glenunga) leased to Chinese market gardeners. In a book named “The Paddocks Beneath: A History of Burnside from the Beginning”, page 147 mentions William Hill leasing his land in Knoxville (now Glenunga) to Chinese market gardeners. The photo is …
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Albury’s Hume and Hovell Centenary celebrations invited Chinese representatives from Bendigo and Ballarat. Howard C. Jones, Unwelcome strangers: the early Chinese experience in Albury-Wodonga , Albury, N.S.W Howard C. Jones, 2017, p.ii.
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Yackandandah Cemetery Former gold mining town with a handful of markers left in its Chinese Section. Some further names also recorded as burials.
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Warwick Cemetery Chinese Section contains only a handful of gravestones. Most rural cemeteries contained a seperate section variously labeled Chinese / Alien / Pagan. Most markers were of wood and have long disappeared. The Chinese Section in Warwick contains a number of late 19th century headstones with at least two identified as …
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Upper Bingara Chinese Cemetery In August 1851 the first official discovery of gold was made in the Bingara District, followed by the development of gold fields at Cournagoura Creek (Gouron Gouron) and Bingera which later became Upper Bingara. It is reported that Paddy Read and Bob Davy where the first …
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A small number of headstones with an unusual group of graves perhaps done by descendants.
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Buckland Valley cemetery Chinese section. The Buckland Riots are well known and today the Buckland Valley has little remaining from its gold fields past. A small cemetery with a few Chinese graves remain and more recently a general memorial from the Chinese community of Melbourne.
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Beechworth Cemetery contains the largest number of surviving Chinese headstones. Beechworth was a major goldfield and had a significant population of Chinese miners over a long period of time. Like Bendigo and Ballarat the Chinese community often participated in many community activities including processions and donating to the local hospital.
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Grave of the Great Elder of the Great Qing Empire. Erected in the 32nd year of Emperor Guangxu (1906), in the cyclical year Bing-wu. Centre column 大清國 Great Qing Empire 大伯公塚 Grave of the Great Elder Right column 光緒三十二年 …
DetailsGeneral memorial to Chinese people buried in Moorina Cemetery. By the early 20th century the tin mining villages such as Moorina had been depopulated but their cemeteries remained. The Chinese community based in Launceston erected this memorial to those buried there and presumably also conducted regular ceremonies during the annual …
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Over 10,000 CEDT's issued in Sydney now the the NAA, NSW. This is a large collection of boxes, some 35 metres in shelf length as archivists record such matters. The 245 boxes in total contain a carefully numbered collection of over 10,000 CEDTs or ‘Certificate’s Exempting …
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Sym Choon’s letter authorising an exemption from the dictation test, 1921. This is a letter exempting Sym Choon from the Immigration Restriction Act’s dictation test and authorising him to re-enter Australia after a visit overseas on 1921. As the twentieth century progressed, the administration of the Dictation …
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A sculpture to commemorate the discovery of Canton Lead by the early Chinese gold miners. The sculpture, in memory of the early Chinese diggers, was erected as an Australian Bicentennial Project and unveiled in 1988 and incorporates the plaque erected at the site of the Canton Lead mine by the …
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Cairns Chinatown was the largest and longest running Chinese community outside Brisbane from the 1880s until the mid 1940s. "Grafton Street, Cairns was the historical site for Cairns Chinatown - the largest and longest running Chinese community outside Brisbane from the 1880s until the mid 1940s. Supporting a diverse population of …
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Two substantial burning towers at Carlyle cemetery, Wahgunyah. There were two burning towers erected in 1897 of which one original remains. In the 1970s, the other was re-erected by the Rutherglen Lions Club. Forty known Chinese are buried alongside these towers from 1881 to 1928. The existing memorial stones …
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Twin burning towers at Beechworth cemetery built 1887 and restored 1967.
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Weldborough is a former tin mining village with Chinese burials and burning tower for funeral practices. Many Chinese people lived in North-East Tasmania mining for tin in villages such as Weldborough. As in other locations in Australia a burning tower was erected to facilitate such funerary practices as the …
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Moorina was a tin mining village with many Chinese miners and hence burials and an associated burning tower. This is one of numerous burning towers in Australia that are to be found in the Chinese sections of cemeteries. It is only one of two remaining in Tasmania and is unique …
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Like so many still existing burning towers little is known about the date of build or specific usage.
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A brick tower, restored after vandalism in the 1990s. Wagga General cemetery in a restored site along with 25 headstones of mostly Sunhui people.
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Many Chinese burials at Burketown Cemetery. Burketown Cemetery records begin recording Chinese burials in 1890 and these continue through to the present day with many families of mixed heritage carrying the names of their Chinese ancestor. Also buried in the same cemetery is Constable Richard Alford who was responsible for …
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Bronze incense holder incense holder found at Castlemaine and probably from a Joss House. "Found at Forest Creek Goldfields, Castlemaine, Victoria." Chinese Museum, Melbourne
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Burketown began recording burials from 1866 but the first Chinese names only appear in the early 1890s when several relatively young men are recorded - Young Ah Tim aged 35, Jimmy Ah Gow, also 35, Cong Ching, 27, Tommy Ah Bow, 32 and Yept Gin, aged only 20. While some could …
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The burner is of brick construction with a square footprint of 2100mm, it stands 2150mm high and has a stepped roof of nine brick courses. On the north side an opening has been created by leaving out six horizontally arranged bricks. The opening allows access to a metal grated area …
DetailsThe memorial stele commemorates the Chinese who were killed during the riot in the Buckland Valley when thousands of Chinese miners were attacked and driven from the goldfields. The large community of Chinese (it was estimated to number 3000 at its peak in 1857) led to an anti-Chinese riot …
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Small kiln located on a market garden. "The archaeological site of the Chinese Kiln and Market Garden, Bendigo North, contains the partially demolished remains of a Chinese cross-draught brick kiln and artefacts associated with the use of the kiln between 1859 and the 1880s." "Newspaper records indicate that the …
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The other unusual section was the “Chinese and Strangers” who were allocated a spot in the far southern end of the cemetery. Indeed there are 7 Chinese buried here which attest to a long association with this district. Five of the men drown in Ovens River during a flood in …
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According to the authority of the Queen’s Government, in the year 1877 the Parliament passed a law titled The Mines Act, 1877. It states that all persons without a miner’s right, lease, or mining permit who dig, wash, or extract gold from the ground on Crown land shall …
DetailsTranslation of mining license requirement and penalties into Chinese. Mining licenses were common as was the need to ensure people understood what was required. The English is of the original Act rather than a translation of the Chinese.
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HAYMARKET HIPPODROME Hay-street, near George-street 戰爭旗色 With the Colours This theatre is located near the corner of Hay Street and George Street in Sydney. It is now presenting the play “With the Colours”, a marvellous performance that amazes and delights audiences. Spectators from all around …
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Belmore market next to Belmore Park was the fresh produce market in the 1890s before it was relocated to Paddy's market. The new Paddy's market was built between 1908-1914, located near Darling Harbour and the railway. Many Chinese market gardeners and merchants sold their products or worked …
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“This is believed to be the site of the original Chinese joss and bath house." Goldfields Guide, 19th century Chinese baths
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Cane basket with cane handles, used for carrying light items. Found at an old goldmine at Brindabella, near Queanbeyan. It is unknown if this basket was used by Chinese miners, but it has been attributed to this by the museum. An example of association: gold mine + woven basket = Chinese.
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"At Emmaville, a small tin-mining town about 20 miles north of Deepwater N.S.W. The bandsmen never fail to attract an audience.” —Photo: B. R. Tooth. Sydney Mail, 13 February 1924, p.19.
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ASIO often spied on the Chinese community in the Cold War era and used its powers to deny people residence or citizenship for affiliation with pro-China organisations. “This action might have a beneficial effect within the local Chinese community” Drew's article
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Joss House altar removed from Lion Creek Temple and now in Rockhampton Chinese Association. This is a beautifully preserved Joss House altar that was removed from the Lion Creek Temple and is now in Rockhampton Chinese Association. The only comparable example is that in the QVMAG Launceston.
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Alma Mary Chong (Wang) Sydney Uni graduate https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/wang-alma-mary-32108
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The plaque with bas relief sculpture commemorates the official opening of Lake Alexander which was named in honour of Alec Fong Lim AM, former Mayor of Darwin from 1984 to 1990. Alexander "Alec" Fong Lim AM (1931 – 1990) was the eleventh Lord Mayor of the City of Darwin, the capital …
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Safe purchased from Anthony Hordern Sydney and transported to the Zhongshan village of the Lee family. This safe was found in 1999 helping hold open a door in an modest house located in an average village in the district of Liang Du of Zhongshan County , southern China. The safe had …
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A distinctive form of philanthropy undertaken by the Chinese communities in Australia was the donation of funds to local hospitals. These contributions, frequently listed in newspapers, took the form of both individual gifts and collective community donations, and were often acknowledged by local hospital committees. During the nineteenth and early …
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Web-Based Chinese-Australian Collections The rise of social media and the internet has given a new avenue to the preservation and presentation of Chinese-Australian heritage through a growing number of web-based collections. Scattered Legacy is one such example, but it sits within a broader ecosystem of more …
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When Lily Ah Toy (born Wong Wu Len) came into the world in Darwin in October 1917, her father didn’t even register her birth. ‘Well the war’s on, and another girl’, he said. The prospect that she might be adopted out to a woman in Darwin desperate for …
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A general store (J Ah Toy & Co.) opened by Jimmy Ah Toy in Kunckey Street, Darwin in 1947. Jimmy Ah Toy operated Ah Toy's Store in Pine Creet since 1935. After the war, Jimmy and Lily returned to Pine Creek in 1945 and continued running Ah Toy's Store …
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Jimmy Ah Toy was the husband of Lily Ah Toy and father of Eddie Ah Toy, He bought Ah Toy Store in Pine Creek in 1935. Jimmy Ah Toy was born in 1915. He was one of the ten children of Jimmy Ah Yu. He was raised in the Old …
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Many systems for the romanisation of Chinese dialects[1] have been used in the past and so much confusion results when texts from different periods are used. ‘Mandarin’, which is the national language of the People’s Republic of China, has had numerous romanisation systems developed to enable it to …
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The baker's shop and bakery Pine Creek, are of historical and architectural significance as an example of a Top End galvanised iron store typical of the Pine Creek district. This is the earliest surviving example of this type of store and contributes to the Main Terrace streetscape. Source: Heritage …
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Ah Toy's Store was located at 35 Main Terrace in Pine Creek. It was opened in 1935 by Jimmy and Lily Ah Toy. The store has been serving people since it was Wing Cheong & Co. tailor shop and general store early this century. It became Ah Toy’s Store …
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Pine Creek Chinatown After the bombing of Darwin in 1942 the family was evacuated to Adelaide and they returned to Pine Creek in 1945 to re-open the general store. When they came back after the war, they came to the back of the old shop. And Lily went inside …
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The Chinese population of Normanton and the Gulf region was substantial and significant intermarriage took place, especially with the indigenous people. No marked graves remain at Normanton cemetery (two previously recorded stones could not be found in 2024). "The burials register (to 2012) records 27 burials between 1887 and 1930 …
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Districts of origin / qiaoxiang Much of provincial China was historically divided into counties or districts composed of groups of villages. While some migrants organised themselves along village lines when numbers allowed, in Australia most structured their associations around the larger district level. Among the Cantonese-speaking settlers, the principal districts …
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"The 1903 Naturalization Act is also usually cited as instrumental in denying citizenship to those not welcome within a White Australia with its specific denial of naturalisation for ‘an aboriginal native of Asia, Africa, or the Islands of the Pacific’. However, this legal limitation did not last long and …
DetailsTommy Ah Gow was a long time resident of the Gulf country. He married locally and had a number of children. In the 1920s he made an attempt to be become naturalised but was denied due to the prevailing white Australia policy. "Tommy Ah Gow was married to White woman …
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Normanton The Chinese population of Normanton and the Gulf region was substantial and significant intermarriage took place, especially with the indigenous people. No marked graves remain at Normanton cemetery (two previously recorded stones could not be found in 2024).
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Chinese-born Yett Soo War Way Lee immigrated to Sydney from Dongguan in 1874. By 1878 he had established Way Lee & Co, an importing business in Adelaide, and soon had trading interests across Australia. Way Lee was well respected in South Australian business circles, but had to battle constantly against …
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Nyngan Cemetery is located at the eastern end of the town of Nyngan, on Cemetery Road, off Pangee Street. The Chinese section is on the far western side, away from the other sections (Methodist, Church of England, Catholic, Presbyterian, two lawned areas) of the cemetery and beside Cemetery Road. Bogan …
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The headstone of The headstone of Jimmy Cheong Ah Yu (1855-1940) and Chun Lan Ah Yu (1891-1938) in Pine Creek cemetery. Jimmy Ah Yu was the owner of the Old Bakery in Pine Creek. The Pine Creek Bakery started life in 1908 as Jim Ah You’s butcher …
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Charles See Kee's grave in Darwin General Cemetery. Charles Tsang See-Kee is a prominent Darwin Chinese leader involved with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the Darwin Chinese Recreation Club and the Ethnic Communities Council. CHARLES TSANG SEE-KEE OAM (1913-2002) Charles See-Kee was born in Hong …
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The tombstone of Arthur Lee Hang Gong in Hong Kong Arthur Hang Gong Lee born in Creswick, died of throat cancer in Hong Kong on 21 August 1907 at the age of 39. He was buried in Hong Kong Cemetery Arthur Lee Hang Gong became the first Territory inhabitant of …
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The photo of Aleck King, a market gardener in Caltowie, South Australia A Chinese man identified as Aleck King of Caltowie who had lived in South Australia for sixty-one years, had been naturalised for forty years, and was returning to China for a visit. Aleck married Emily Parsons, formerly …
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Aleck married Emily Parsons, formerly of Dorset, in Adelaide and they moved to Caltowie where he became a market gardener. The Caltowie correspondent for The Areas Express, 9 June 1877, page 3, reports: "A Chinaman named King has started a garden in this township, and he has now a fine …
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There are a number of general memorials to the history of the Chinese in various localities. While much of mainstream Australia remains largely unaware of its Chinese heritage, there have been efforts—particularly at the local level—to memorialise specific aspects of Chinese Australian history. Some of these efforts are …
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“The garden is a contemporary Chinese garden in Australia. As such it represents the important contribution of Chinese people in the culture, those who came from China as immigrants and are now Australians and those Australians whose parents or grandparents came from China." Goldfields Guide, The Avoca Chinese Garden
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Tomb of Bi Jiang, Avoca Lead Wayside Stop, Avoca The Avoca Lead Wayside Stop is an interesting spot located just out of Avoca on the Pyrenees Highway, heading towards Maryborough. This interesting rest area features a Chinese tomb, the site of a butcher shop, and well presented information signs describing …
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Under both NSW and Victoria law operate areas of residence for Chinese miners were to be designated. These were called “camps” and Chinese camps were the general label for any Chinese majority part of rural towns in the two colonies regardless of their nominal legal origin. Gradually the designation camp …
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Twelve Mile Chinatown, Settlement and Battery Site are of high archaeological significance and, since the loss of the sites at Union Reef and the majority of the Pine Creek sites to mining development, it has taken on an added historical significance in being one of a now small group of …
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Chiffa or Cheefah (字花) was probably introduced by the pearl divers who came to Broome where it was played well into the second half of the 20th century, as well as earlier that century in Perth. The Cheefah winning combination is drawn before the tickets are sold and are …
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Joss House bells of the 19th century and early 20th century were made in Foshan and are found in many places around the Chinese diaspora. Made of cast iron the durability of Joss House bells makes them a good marker of the distribution of southern Chinese around the world. To …
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國泰民安 Cantonese: gwok³ taai³ màn⁴ on¹ Mandarin: guó tài mín ān Translation: “The country prospers and the people live in peace.” 風調雨順 Cantonese: fūng chìuh yú seuhn Mandarin: fēng tiáo yǔ shùn Translation: “Favourable winds and timely rain.”
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侯王宮(Hou Wang Gong)---this is temple’s name 坑仔(keng Zai) the place where donor was living there. ⿈嬌(Huang Jiao) the name who donate the bell 啟(Qiˇ/ Ciˇ) presented by 國泰⺠安(Guo Tai Min An)—the country is prosperous and …
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Temple Bell from former Georgetown Joss House 風調雨順 Cantonese pronunciation: Fūng tìuh yúh seuhn Mandarin: fēng tiáo yǔ shùn Translation: “Favourable winds and timely rain” — an auspicious phrase meaning harmony in nature and prosperity for the people. A common inscription on bells, see Innisfail Temple Bell 光 …
DetailsOne of only ten remaining bells associated with Australia's more than 100 nineteenth century Joss Houses (though not all had bells). Originally donated to the temple in 1905, when it was opened as Georgetown's second temple. The bell was in private hands after the destruction of the Georgetown …
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Temple name: 烈聖宮 Lit Sing Gong Temple of the Venerable Sage. 國泰民安 Pronunciation (Cantonese): gwok³ taai³ man⁴ on¹ Pronunciation (Mandarin): guó tài mín ān Translation: “The nation prospers and the people live in peace.”
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F oundry mark identifying the maker. 昌信爐造 Pinyin: Chāng Xìn lú zào Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹ seon³ lou⁴ zou⁶ Translation: “Made by the Chang Xin Foundry.” ( Chang Xin foundry or workshop; 爐造 literally “furnace-made / cast.”) Donors 華文公所敬送 Pinyin: Huá Wén gōng …
DetailsTemple Bell of the Cooktown Joss House now in the James Cook Museum Erected in 1892 and sold at public auction in 1938, the bell and large urn survived to be housed in Cooktown’s James Cook Museum.
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A modern cast bell in a “temple” style marking the site of the Brisbane Chinatown. Installled as part of the revamp of the Brisbance Chinatown the bell features Australian motifs and simplified characters as well as English. The model for the bell is the grander temple bells similaer to that …
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Bell from one of the two Joss Houses at Tingha. Purchased by a local presumably at the time the temple was destroyed around 1930. The bell is now used as the bell for St Andrews Church.
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烈聖宮 Pinyin: Liè Shèng Gōng Cantonese (Jyutping): lit⁶ sing³ gung¹ Translation: “Lit Soon Temple” or “Temple of the Venerable Sage.”
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風調雨順 Pinyin: fēng tiáo yǔ shùn Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹ tiu⁴ jyu⁵ seon⁶ Meaning: “Favourable winds and timely rains.” A common inscription on bells, see Atherton and Cairns Temple bells. 烈聖宮 Pinyin: liè shèng gōng Cantonese (Jyutping): lit⁶ sing³ gung¹ Meaning: “Lit Sing Temple” or “Temple …
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The Innisfail Chinese Temple bell is one of only three bells still within continuing temples. The bell gives a date 炎曆卅三年歲次戊戌 “Flame Calendar, 33rd year, cyclical year Wu Xu (戊戌).” This is either 1898 CE , or possibly 1938 CE. The existing …
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Like many Joss House bells in Australia this bell was cast with a dedication, maker and date information. Characters: 風調雨順 Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹ tiu⁴ jyu⁵ seon⁶ / Pinyin: fēng tiáo yǔ shùn Translation: “Favourable winds and timely rains” or “May the winds be gentle and the rains come …
DetailsThe Atherton Joss House bell is one of only eight surviving from the 19th century temples that once were dotted in many rural towns. The Atherton temple has been restored and its bell is one of only three that continue to reside with their original temple.
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Part of the loot brought back by colonial troops who had participated in the Boxer Rebellion in which troops from various colonial powers had defended their nationals during a popular uprising. The Chinese community of Sydney supported the sending of these troops fearing the disruption and prefering more constitutional reform …
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"They built a Joss house, and worshipped strange gods out at the Brisbane claim and at Wylie Creek." The Brisbane Courier , 19 November 1904, p.12. “Wylie Creek was in fete last week. 160 Chinamen foregathered to celebrate the opening of the New Joss House. Pig, wine, and whisky …
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"he asked me whether Ah Kong was in the joss-house" Empire , 29 April 1864, p.3.
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“Clarke's Creek (alias "The Devil's Hole") is close handy, and in travelling through, one passes the Chinese quarters and the Joss House, where the childlike and bland Celestial prays on all occasions when he is not engaged in cultivating cabbage or courting the smiles of Dame Fortune …
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"The Secretary of the Ladies' Benevolent Society desires to acknowledge the sum of £1 3s 4d, forwarded by Sun Yee Goon, from the sale of the Chinese joss house at Vaughan." Mount Alexander Mail , 5 November 1910, p.2.
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“Wilcannia, Friday.— On Thursday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, the Wilcannia police arrested a Chinaman, at the local joss house, named Kum Ly, on a charge of having stabbed a country-man named Oh Kum." Evening News , 12 July 1890, p.6. "My head was dressed by the doctor …
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A ceremony was held yesterday at the Joss House at Waratah, near the market gardens. Originally there were a couple of miniature shrines in Steel street, but these no longer exist, and the Chinese is compelled to make a pilgrimage to Waratah to burn his incense sticks and paper money …
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"The Chinese present, including priests from the Joss House at Tumut Plains" The Burrangong Argus , 30 August 1882, p.3.
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“The Hill End Observer states that a new Joss-house was opened with great solemnity by the Celestials at Tambaroora on Thursday week. The occasion was observed as a general holiday, and the Chinamen mustered in large number, everyone bringing an offering, however small its intrinsic value, and laying …
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“A Chinaman, who is supposed to be laboring under some religious delusion, set fire to the Joss House at the Stanley Camp yesterday morning about 11 o'clock. That temple was completely destroyed, and it was only by the aid of the police that the camp was saved from …
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"The first time I went to attend a place of worship in Sofala, the central township of the Turon, my attention was caught by a large tent (within bowshot of the Christian's meeting place) gaudily decorated inside and out, with tapers lighted on a table inside at noonday …
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About 1876 the district experienced a very severe drought; consequently, a great quantity of wash dirt was stacked, awaiting the looking for rain. Coning of incense, falling to produce the desired change in the weather, the hard-hearted God was chopped to pieces. Another was at once installed, and that …
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Joss Houses were also common in many other parts of the Cantonese Pacific.
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"A Chinese camp at Rutherglen was destroyed by fire on February 27. Eleven buildings were consumed, including two stores and a Joss House. Incendiarism is suspected." Australian Town and Country Journal , 4 March 1914, p.53.
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Sam Kee’s Store, advertising calendars, Chinese family stores Bushells advertising calendar for Sam Kee’s Store Tingha.
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"Placards were posted about the streets on Thursday, calling upon the citizens to "roll-up" and hold a monster meeting in Hyde Park that evening, for the purpose of expressing their hatred of the terrible Mongolians, and their sympathy with the lambs of Burrangong. The evening, however, was very …
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Cities hosted a wider variety of businesses, many of which served those in the rural areas. In the late nineteenth century, Chinese merchants established numerous stores across rural Australia, extending a commercial network that had long been centred in urban hubs such as Melbourne and Sydney. Many of these firms …
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Quong’s Bakery, under the family’s house in Smith Street West. The Quong family returned from Queensland to Darwin in November 1945. Very soon they had opened the town’s first post-war bakery, Quong’s Bakery, under the family’s house in Smith Street West. The bakery soon …
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Long Tack Sam was a Shandong born US based entertainer whose group often toured Australia. " Lung Te Shan, as Long Tack Sam was originally known, was born in Wuqiao County, Shandong Province in Northeast China. There are many versions of Sam’s early life, however what is known for sure …
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Sym Choon' & Co Ltd was a Chinese family business based in Rundle Street, Adelaide, started by John Sym Choon and his wife, So Yung Moon, who migrated from China to South Australia in the 1890s. John Sym Choon sold fresh fruit and vegetables door to door when he arrived in …
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Gordon Sym Choon’s store was at 235 Rundle St. He traded in peanuts, was an agent for Wrigley’s chewing gum, and sold fireworks from China and England right up to the 70s. Gordon was the youngest child of John Sym Choon and So Yung Moon who immigrated from …
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DR. REGINALD, J.A.E.P. WONG. Who held the position of Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital from 1917 till 1918, and was the only Chinese Doctor ever connected, in this respect, with the Institution. During the period that he held office, Dr. Wong, in addition …
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General advertising was common as was advertising in Chinese language newspapers by both Chinese and non-Chinese businesses Chinese Advertising in Australia Chinese business advertising in colonial and early-federation Australia operated across three distinct worlds. Within the Chinese community, merchants advertised in their own newspapers — promoting herbal shops, shipping …
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Foon Kee, long time Wagga resident, shopkeeper and herbalist. Geoffrey Burch - Foon Kee and Chinatown Wagga Wagga Advertiser 3 January 1899, p.1.
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Wagga resident Harry Hong Fat contracted Chinese workers as scrub clearers. MR HARRY KONG FAT The death occurred on Saturday of Mr. Harry Kong Fat, a retired store keeper, of Fitzmaurice street, Wagga, at the age of 95 years. Mr. Fat was one of the pioneers of the Wagga district …
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These advertisements from the Chinese Festival Night program are a snapshot of some of the many Chinese owned businesses in Sydney in the 1920s. Included are a few non-Chinese businesses who found it worth their while to also advertise. The mixture of Chinese and non-Chinese advertising was common …
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In 1923 the board of Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital organised a funding drive it called a "Community Campaign" aiming to secure some £23,000. The Chinese community of Sydney, led by G.Y.T. Quoy and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce agreed to contribute its "Chinese quota" by …
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Willie Lum Choy acquired Chow Kum’s Empire Café opposite the Post Office in Main Street. In about 1920, Willie Lum Choy acquired Chow Kum’s Empire Café opposite the Post Office in Main Street. Chinese families had been operating in town as fruiterers at least since the turn of …
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"The Pekin Cafe at 206 Pitt-street, which is now open for meals in both European and Chinese style of cookery, is certainly an attractive exotic in our midst. The whole of thc partitions, of carved and decorated wood, as well as the furniture inlaid with mother-o'-pearl …
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"The Wheel Edith on Ruby Creek and the Brisbane mine up the creek paid spanking dividends, and on the latter the Chinese established their camp and built their joss house." Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette , 17 December 1928, p.9. "They built a Joss house, and worshipped strange …
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"A sign of the times—a new Chinese Joss House!" The Week , 15 July 1882, p.8. The temple remnants are located south of Deighton Street and comprise a series of concrete, stone and earth platforms with overall dimensions of approximately 22 metres long and 10-11 metres wide …
Details“The new Joss-house erected at Port Douglas by the Chinese was opened on Monday, January 28, at midnight, amid a great display of fireworks. The building is a handsome one, costing £180, and the inside furniture, &c., cost £170. A Chinese priest officiates." The Week , 18 February 1888 …
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The place was open to any Chinaman coming there, and he had no power to stop them. The Chinamen came to see the Joss about good seasons or rain. He was paid by the Chinamen. The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate , Wednesday 20 Apr 1921, p.1 .
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“The rest of the town is made up of log huts, bark roofed and windowless, where the Chinese storekeepers carry on their business, a Joss-house, two black-smiths' forges and a confectioner's shop. " The Age , 24 September 1878, p.3.
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The Palmer River Gold Rush: a major but neglected goldrush that had a great impact on Queensland and NSW. The Palmer River Gold Rush of the 1870s, in the far north of Queensland, remains one of the most neglected of Australia’s gold rushes. Yet it was also among the …
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The category of merchant can be a somewhat vague one, yet it remains a highly significant aspect of Chinese trade history. From the outset, many of the men who arrived in Australia from the Pearl River Delta were not merely gold seekers, but individuals who already possessed some capital. They …
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“Our Omeo correspondent writes: Our celestial friends have been holding high holiday at Omeo, in celebration of the opening of the New Joss House. The august ceremony took place on Monday last, when the clans gathered in numbers in their best bib and tucker from every quarter. There could …
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"The next thing which attracted my attention was the Chinese joss house." "During the performance, a number of [Chinese people] assembled round a kind of oven built of stones and clay, somewhat resembling the shape of an ant-bed. After removing the top of the improvised oven, a pig …
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"Further afield in a remote area of the Etheridge, Mt Hogan also had a bush temple which was present from 1888 until at least 1896, on land owned by prominent Townsville merchant firm On War Chong." [Etheridge Shire Council, Rate Book 1882-1884 and 1888-1896.] Sandi Robb, North …
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"the Chinese camp, a very cosy, compact little township, containing about 400 residents, and possessing a large number of stores, together with a joss-house, a well-furnished lottery house and gambling saloon, etc." Leader , 8 October 1864, p.17. "He said he first fled for relief from his …
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Moree Joss house - also referred to later as the Chinese Masonic Temple. "Close by the spot where the crime was committed is a Chinese Joss House in Heber Street, where a gaudy looking flag, inscribed with queer hieroglyhics in the Chinese tongue, may generally be seen flaunting in the breeze …
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Moo Tai Mue Chinese Temple. Otherwise known as the Fisherman's Joss House. There is a prayer furnace at the side. The Joss House was on Fisherman’s Beach at Palmerston, below some cliffs. "There are some people that are beginning to like John Chinaman – they get fish, prawns and …
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“There is a Chinese joss-house in the township, which we inspected on Sunday morning, and it was well worth a visit." Illawarra Mercury , 3 April 1894, p.3. "Then came the churches — Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Chinese. Ah Gow was the last of his tribe left there— a …
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On section H3 of the Darwin Commemorative wall quilt, it is written 'Shu Ack Fong Evacuated to Adelaide by truck and train 29 March 1942' Quilt section of the Darwin Commemorative Wall Quilt which includes the applique of the RSS & AILA (old RSL). The quilt was assembled between 1992 and …
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"PRESENTATION TO MR. A. K SMITH. Councillor A. K. Smith, the late mayor of Melbourne, was presented in the council chamber yesterday afternoon with a life-size portrait of himself from the Chinese inhabitants of the city. Besides a deputation of Chinamen, there were present his worship the mayor …
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This illuminated address was presented to W E Johnson for his assistance in getting the Commonwealth Government to pass a ban on opium. For the Chinese Australian elite anxious both to see China strong again and to stave off the threat of a White Australia opium was seen as debilitating …
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Three Mount Gambier Chinese Gardeners, Sammy Lew, Hey Lew, Jimmy Win Wah. 1946. Artist Unknown
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Tommy McRae was an indigenous artist who sold his drawings. This image therefore is as likely to represent something his audience considered amusing as of any real scene. Tommy McRae, Chinese man fleeing from an Aboriginal man wielding an axe, Wahgunyah Region, Victoria, 1880 NLA: http://nla.gov.au/nla …
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Eugene von Guerard was a German artist who did a number of drawings with Chinese subjects. Volume 01: Sketchbook XXII. No. 4 Australian. Australia, Apr. 1854-Dec. 1857, 1858 / by Eugene von Guerard
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"A large fire on Saturday night burnt down 15 houses at the Chinese Camp. Several stores, opium shops, gambling dens, and the joss-house were burnt." Launceston Examiner , 20 January 1876, p.2. "MARYBOROUGH, Friday. Shortly after 10 p.m. to-day an extensive fire occurred in the local …
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“John Chinaman is about to supersede John Bull in the occupancy of the Majorca Wet Lead. According to the local Times " the Chinamen have offered to purchase every claim on it, tlie price being L5 a share, they allege ' English man no good — too much lazy; Chinaman buy all …
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"Some days since the Chinese residing in the neighborhood of the murders held a great prayer and invocation meeting in the temple of Joss, concluding with casting lots among themselves," The Age , 13 July 1868, p.3. "At one end of the village, in a detached situation, is a …
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"Another Mackay item ; "Yesterday, at Chinatown, there was quite a commotion amongst the Chinese, the occasion being the opening of a new Joss House. Tom toms were beaten, fireworks exploded, and altogether." Worker , 11 July 1903, p.9. "From Mr. James Breen, asking that the land upon which the …
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"In the centre of the Chinese quarter, in Little Bourke-street east, and situated a door or two above the Joss House,.." Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers , 13 August 1872, p.168. 1903 - Strikers meet in Joss Hse The Herald , Wednesday 18 Nov 1903, p.3.
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"These pious Orientals have lately erected a neat little Joss-house, and have thus shown, according to their light, a good example to the more favored Christian inhabitants. The door of the little temple stands open to all, to barbarians as well as Celestials. Over the table or altar …
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"Peters, Barnard, and Co's store has, in fact, been the head-quarters of the Chinese, and here it is here, in an otherwise unoccupied portion of the yard, that they have built their joss-house" The Mercury , 23 August 1872, p.3. "The party intend to remain in …
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"Two companies of Chinese have arrived from, the Omeo. About 100 are camped, near Mr. Scully's, and have made him an offer for his house, to convert it into a Joss House." Empire , 23 June 1860, p.3 . "The Chinese have a Joss House (or place of worship …
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Two Pig Ovens at former Chinese mining site Clarke’s Creek, Windeyer “For her 2002 Honours thesis, Lin Johnston investigated the site of a Chinese camp at Clarkes Creek, Windeyer, NSW, describing one or possibly two stone ovens at the back of the camp area. The site, which included a …
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In fieldwork for her Honours thesis on the archaeology of Chinese suburban settlement in the north west New South Wales tin mining towns of Tingha and Emmaville, Rebecca Lin Yit found large earthen mounds with convex tops within 20 metres of both the temple site on Howell Road at Tingha …
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"In one place were the ruins of an old Chinese joss house, whilst nearby were three old Chinese stone ovens for roasting whole pig." The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate , 13 November 1924, p.7. “... the only relics left are an occasional ruin of an old chimney or …
Details"In one place were the ruins of an old Chinese joss house, whilst nearby were three old Chinese stone ovens for roasting whole pig." The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate , 13 November 1924, p.7. “... the only relics left are an occasional ruin of an old chimney or …
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In 2018, Hill End resident Robert Anderson was alerted to the presence of a stone oven on the Tambaroora Common on old diggings off Andersons Road at Washing Gully, almost due west of Hill End. He showed the oven to Lorraine Purcell from the Hill End and Tambaroora Gathering Group …
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A pig oven in Stuart Town was identified by Hoy Lee (1911-2006) in an interview with historian Janis Wilton in 1999. Lee was the son of Wong War Lai (Tommy Lee), who came to New South Wales from Baak Shek village in Jang Sheng County in 1888 to work …
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Former Pig Roasting Oven Eighteen metres to the northeast of the temple foundations are the remains of a brick and stone pig roasting oven (refer Figure 24: Site Plan). The structure (approximately 5 x 2 metres) is aligned east-west. The upper section has collapsed and it currently stands at …
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Recorded by BJORNSKOV, M., 2001 'Rock, mortar and traditions: an archaeological study of Chinese 'ovens' in the Northern Territory' in Fredericksen, C, and I. Walters (eds), Altered states: material culture transformations in the Arafura region , NT University Press, Darwin, pp 121-147. Cited in Gordon Grimwade, Crispy roast pork: using …
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Centre for Gold Rush Collections - many Chinese related but poorly described
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Pig oven used near temple in Alexandria, Sydney "... nothing particular In the open background-save a small gilded erection that looked like a toy pagoda, and was really an oven for roasting pigs." The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 January 1909, p.13.
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A condescending and stereotyped description of Perth Chinatown is available from 1922. Like many such descriptions we are reliant on European observers who usually come with a distinct bias. In addition they are usually writing for a while readership who expect to be titillated and would not welcome or understand …
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COMBER, J. 1992 Palmer goldfield heritage sites study (stage 2), unpublished report to the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage. GRIMWADE, G. 1990 Palmer goldfield heritage sites study (stage 1), unpublished report to the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage. GRIMWADE, G. 1993 EIS Cultural resources Palmer Goldfield (R16) ML …
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Market garden hut at Woollahra Once an outer suburb of Sydney it had many market gardens which were displaced as wealthy residents no longer wished to be associated with such activities. "CHINESE MARKET GARDENS are a nuisance at Rose Bay." Image: Sunday Times, 22 February 1925, p.3.
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Harry Goon's Hut or Harry Goon's Camp was a market garden on which a number of aging men lived in the 1940s. Harry Ah Goon a market gardener since at least 1901/1904 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128569404 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article …
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A Chinese gardeners hut supplying vegetables to the local community.
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乍聽雞鳴思樂境 Upon hearing the cries of hens, I think of the realm of joy; 一耷(聞)雀喊惱鰥居 (but) when I hear the calls of birds, I rue the bachelor's life On Sunday, 24 March 2024 at 12:52 …
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A gardeners hut, now on private property but once on an estate called Mimosa. The hut is in good condition and nearby are other remains of the Mimosa estate including a church and school. The hut was perhaps occupied by a series of Chinese gardeners with the garden in a …
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"During the performance, a number of [Chinese people] assembled round a kind of oven built of stones and clay, somewhat resembling the shape of an ant-bed. After removing the top of the improvised oven, a pig was hauled out, baked whole." The Cobargo Chronicle , 16 June 1899, p …
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Archaeological survey revealing a possible pig oven at the Mount Misery Chinese camp, if so the earliest extant. "The partially visible oven at Mount Misery, embedded in an artificial slope, is distinguished by an exposed internal lining of quartz cobbles in a clay matrix. The uniform red discoloration of these …
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The other oven Jack identified was at Mookerawa, near Stuart Town, where in 1984, he photographed what he believed to have been a Chinese habitation site. He photographed features of the site: a chock and log pen, possibly for pigs, a re-built hut, allegedly constructed by a Chinese miner …
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Recorded by KAUFMANN, R., & A. SWIFT 2003 Chinese oven and hut Site, Mitta Mitta Goldfield, unpublished assessment notes for Heritage Victoria. Cited in Gordon Grimwade, Crispy roast pork: using Chinese Australasian pig ovens, Australasian Historical Archaeology , 2008, Vol. 26 (2008), pp. 21-28. According to Gordon Grimwade this oven "would …
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Pig Oven used for a burial at Majorca “One of the most noticeable features was a huge porker roasted whole, the method being peculiar to the Chinese, who for this purpose build a high circular oven of stones and clay, open at the top, in which, after it has been …
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“As well as poultry the Chinese were very fond of pork, and occasionally roasted a whole pig. The writer once had an opportunity of seeing how this was done at the south end camp. Two holes were sunk a few feet deep a short distance apart, and a drive …
DetailsIn an interview with Matthew Higgins, Lionel Nomchong described pig ovens on his father’s market gardens in Goulburn. Lionel’s grandfather, Nam Cheong Ng, who arrived in Sydney from Canton c.1870, had general stores in Mongarlowe and Braidwood, including the well-known Nomchong Bros. general store. Lionel’s …
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Recorded by VIVIAN, H., 1985 Tasmania's Chinese heritage: an historical record of Chinese sites in North East Tasmania, unpublished report for Australian Heritage Commission and Queen Victoria Museum. Cited in Gordon Grimwade, Crispy roast pork: using Chinese Australasian pig ovens, Australasian Historical Archaeology , 2008, Vol. 26 (2008), pp. 21 …
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In fieldwork for her Honours thesis on the archaeology of Chinese suburban settlement in the north west New South Wales tin mining towns of Tingha and Emmaville, Rebecca Lin Yit found large earthen mounds with convex tops within 20 metres of both the temple site on Howell Road at Tingha …
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Remains of a pig oven associated with the Croydon Joss House The Croydon pig oven is an exceptionally well preserved one. “Twenty six metres to the south east of the temple foundations are the remains of a stone or 'pig' oven. The oven, built of local stone, was held together …
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“Just about this time, the pig was taken in. He had been roasted whole in an old mud oven; the same being heated as a baker heats his oven, and the animal left to roast with the heat obtained." Delegate Argus and Border Post , 26 March 1896, p.5.
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A pig oven can be seen in the background of a group photograph taken circa 1947 in the backyard of the Chinese Masonic Lodge on the corner of Durham and Rankin Streets in Bathurst. A rectangular brick construction in the background of the photo has a round lid at the …
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Recorded by NATIONAL TRUST OF QUEENSLAND c.2001 Hou Wang Temple, Atherton Chinatown, Queensland, National Trust of Queensland, Brisbane. Cited by Gordon Grimwade, Crispy roast pork: using Chinese Australasian pig ovens, Australasian Historical Archaeology , 2008, Vol. 26 (2008), pp. 21-28. Image c.1912, Grimewage (2008), p.23.
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The Late Mr. Thomas Coto Considerable surprise and regret was evinced in Sale on Monday afternoon when it became known that Mr Thomas Coto of Bundalaguah had died of inflammation of the lungs caused by a cold that he had recently contracted. He was one of the oldest, and most …
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“Writing about the floods at Sale, the Gipps Land Times remarks : "When Dr. M'Donald's boat approached the whereabouts of the Chinamen's encampment in the Sale backwater, they were met by a pillar of the calico joss-house, swimming towards the nearest bank, with the latest edition …
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“'The only sizeable Chinese settlement on the Jordan goldfield, of about 200 people, was located on the Jordan River between Red Jacket and Jericho. A joss house was established and several unmarked graves of Chinese are said to exist in the cemeteries at Jericho and Red Jacket.The ovens …
Details“'The only sizeable Chinese settlement on the Jordan goldfield, of about 200 people, was located on the Jordan River between Red Jacket and Jericho. A joss house was established and several unmarked graves of Chinese are said to exist in the cemeteries at Jericho and Red Jacket.The ovens …
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Jembaicumbene Joss House "There will be great doings this evenings at Jembaicumbene amongst the Celestial bodies, who are inaugurating the opening of a new Joss House. There is to be a monster feast, and the hen roosts and pigstyes of the district have been put under levy for the occasion …
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Bright Chinese Camp Description Summary "The Bright Chinese Camp is located in the centre of Bright, fronting Delany Avenue. It comprises an open, level area of grassed land, with trees and bushes of varying maturity around the boundaries. There are undulations and depressions in the earth across the site, which …
Details"Yells, shouting, and sounds of general squabble proceed from the Joss-House on Tuesday morning (says the Geraldton Advocate of November 27)," "and a general meeting of all Chinatown was held in the Joss-House to inquire into details." Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser , 10 December 1891 …
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"Serious disturbances have taken place at the township of Indigo, near Chiltern. A number of miners took possession of the town and tried to dismantle the Chinese Joss House." Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate , 16 February 1897, p.5. Joss moved from Spring Creek c.1860? "One hut …
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HERBERTON NOTES SALE OF CHINESE JOSS HOUSE. October 11. "With the sale of the Chinese Joss House we are reminded that Herberton, in common with all Northern mining towns carried a considerable Chinese population. They are so few now that the trustees of the Joss House were difficult to find …
Details"the whole of the Chinese Camp, save the Joss House” Mount Alexander Mail , 25 January 1906, p.2.
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"A Chinaman at Heathcote, Victoria, whose residence is near the Joss House, has been troubled by boys who have contracted a liking for his peaches." Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser , 13 February 1888, p.3. "Their camp, in which there was the customary Joss House, was visited …
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"... we visited the Joss House and other places of Interest ..." Townsville Daily Bulletin , 11 April 1908, p.9. The main street has a fine avenue of tropic shade trees. The two-story hotels are striking features of the town, whilst a small joss house, at the north entrance of …
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"The bright beams of the morning sun glinted on the parti-coloured and gorgeously painted roof of the Chinese pagoda that did duty as the Guilford joss-house, as we were riding by that really characteristic-looking edifice." The Queenslander , 19 July 1884, p.93. "We are informed that …
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“But Hong Kong is the name locally given to the Chinese camp near Bright, on the other side of Growler's Creek. I am sorry to see that the Chinaman is still very much to the fore in this mountain valley. Here is a new joss house, and the …
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Across the creek is the Chinese quarter (whose number furnishes half the population), having the tumble-down aspect peculiar to Chinesequarters, with the exception of one building, the Joss House, a small wooden structure, whose entrance is gaudily decorated with gilt hieroglyphs, and within which, in solemn ugly state, is …
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“About a mile outside the town there is a regular Chinese camp, where they have a Joss House, Gambling House, Public House", &c." Northern Argus , 16 January 1871, p.2.
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“The first settlement we pass is called Germantown, but the Germans have given way to the Chinese. Here is another licensed publican, a Celestial, and a neat brick Joss house close at hand." The Age , 20 April 1889, p.13 . Said to have had a polemo tree either side …
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"By 1880, Chinatown had the first of three temples constructed.The first was located on the corner of North and High Streets; the second was relocated around the corner in Low Street by 1892, and the third opened with fanfare in 1905. Following the pattern set by many Chinese …
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Darwin Joss House was looted by soldiers during WWII before being restored and then destroyed by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. "Pictures of the joss, which last year brought luck to the houses in which they were kept, have been returned to the joss house at Darwin. They were borne in …
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Creswick Joss House “It has demolished its crumbling Chinese camp, replete with joss house, and converted the spot into an up-to-date swimming pool." Smith's Weekly , 6 November 1937, p.13. Watercolour, Horace Burkitt (artist), 'Chinese Camp at Creswick', c. 1858
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"The gorgeous Joss-house, with its votive offerings, the offering up of prayer and thanksgivings, the fowls and rice, and other delectable things, the theatre, the processions, with many expressions of "Tsai, taai,” the noise of the crackers and fireworks, the tingle tingle of wire-string guitars, the devouring …
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Cairns & District Chinese Association Inc. (CADCAI) collates, curates and shares knowledge of the cultural and historic contributions of Chinese Australians of north Queensland. "CADCAI is custodian of one of the nation’s hidden treasures, the Cairns Lit Sung Goong (LSG) Temple collection. This nationally significant collection of over 250 artefacts …
DetailsCairns & District Chinese Association Inc. (CADCAI) collates, curates and shares knowledge of the cultural and historic contributions of Chinese Australians of north Queensland. "CADCAI is custodian of one of the nation’s hidden treasures, the Cairns Lit Sung Goong (LSG) Temple collection. This nationally significant collection of over 250 artefacts …
DetailsTemple bell from the Cairns Lit Soon Goong Joss House. Part of the CADCAI collection.
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"The Chinese quarters in Sachs-street has been in a festive condition of crackers and rejoicing Celestials during the past few days since Sunday last, when the Chinese New Year commenced. During the previous week a new Joss House was also opened and upon obtaining particulars we were informed …
DetailsBell from Buk Ti Temple, Cairns, now in private hands. Chinese temple bell at Gordonvale Bowls Club. Mary Lowe, CADCAI: "We believe the bell was originally from the Cairns BakTi Temple. How it came into the possession of the Gordonvale Bowls club (according to them) was that it was given …
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Temples bells - from China, style, examples, inscriptions, dispersed, Cast Iron Bells of the Joss Houses Cast iron bells are among the most fascinating survivals from the many Joss Houses once found across Australia. So far, thirteen have been identified—some in museums, others in private collections, and only three still …
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Buk Ti Goong Joss House, one of two in Cairns. "The remains of the Joss House which recently was burned collapsed early in the storm. The other Joss House suffered severely." The Brisbane Courier , 12 February 1927, p.17 .
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"Our Chinese population already reaches about 160, and they are still increasing. They have erected a Joss-house and made for themselves a god ; the latter is rather a clumsy piece of workmanship, cut out of a tree." The Golden Age , 13 February 1862, p.3.
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Brock's Creek Chinatown was the largest settlement of Chinese in the Northern Territory reaching its peak in 1886 at a population of approximately 400. It is associated with the most important mining area in the Top End. Between 1894-1897 the Chinese Temple was constructed to worship Kwan Sing …
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“But Hong Kong is the name locally given to the Chinese camp near Bright, on the other side of Growler's Creek. I am sorry to see that the Chinaman is still very much to the fore in this mountain valley. Here is a new joss house, and the …
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"Chinese Joss House.-A new Chinese Joss House has for some time been opened in Braidwood, in the premises (the property of Mr. Weaver) recently occupied by Mr. J. L. Moriarty, of Wallace-street. Tbe temple is also occupied as a Celestial lodglng-house, ..." "The chief object of attraction …
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“ ..and a Joss-house in the Chinese quarter “ The Capricornian , 20 October 1877, p.8.
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Botany Bay Joss House - preceded that in Retreat Street, Alexandria. "The one on the banks of Botany Bay is patronised by market gardeners ..." The Australian Star , 2 January 1904, p.7. About 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, a procession of Chinese, headed by a most hideous representation of a …
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"In the throng of improvements, the Chinese, who are not over prosperous, have erected a new joss house in place of the old tumble down affair that has done duty for the past twenty-five years, and notwithstanding the dull times Joss has been duly presented with roast pig …
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“We have two Joss-houses, here, and Wednesday being a festival, day, one of them ignited, from the incessant fire-works let off inside the building, and nearly all was burned down, with the exception of Joss himself." The Avoca Mail , 17 April 1869, p.2. “At Grantsvale the …
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Avoca In 1868 when much of the gold had gone from the area, in "Avoca: Statistics of Chinese Population, and particulars of their Employments" the Chinese Interpreter, How Qua, noted: 250 total population of Chinese 50 Chinese in the largest camp 150 Chinese married in China 4 Chinese married to …
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“Ah Coon deposed: I am joss-housekeeper at Araluen;" Goulburn Evening Penny Post , 19 July 1883, p.5.
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Australian Sydney Wong Tai Sin Temple (or Kwan Yin Kur) is located on the corners of Kensington Road and Liverpool Road (18-20 Liverpool Road Summer Hill 2130 NSW). The lower floor houses the Taoist deity of Wong Tai Sin, and the upper floor houses the Buddhist Bodhisattva of Kwan …
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West Australia Heritage Council - 160 possible Chinese Australian related items https://inherit.dplh.wa.gov.au
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Victorian Heritage Database . Possibly more than 400 Chinese Australian history related items.
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Victoria Collections A webbed collection of items in Victorian museums. Search for “Chinese” equals 1975 https://victoriancollections.net.au/collections?q=chinese
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The “Two Centuries of Chinese Heritage in Western Australia” collection ambitiously seeks to collect, document, and showcase the remarkable contributions of the Chinese community to Western Australia from the state’s founding to the present day. Two Centuries of Chinese Heritage in Western Australia See: Tao Yu
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Images and items related to the Northern Territory. Search for “Chinese” equals 791 https://territorystories.nt.gov.au/?ntdl_type=image&query=Chinese
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Queensland Heritage Register . Potential 92 places linked to Chinese Australian heritage.
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"Our Chinese Past Inc conducts projects to identify, document, preserve, research and promote the rich diversity of Chinese Australian history and heritage." Its main focus is on Tingha, Uralla and Emmaville, NSW. Includes many translations where relevant. https://ourchinesepast.org.au
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Chinese languages have been widely spoken in Australia since the nineteenth century. Chinese-language print and press, as well as oral history and manuscript materials, are an important source for Australian history. Early Chinese-language press is partially covered in Trove, and state and local archives hold community and court …
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A community based collection of monuments from Australia - many hundreds related to Chinese Australian history. https://monumentaustralia.org.au/search
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NSW Department of Planning and Environment Heritage Database
DetailsThe State Heritage Inventory holds information about heritage items and places on statutory lists in New South Wales. Under "Chinese" are 429 items. Local Environment Plans State Heritage Inventory https://www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au/App/Item/SearchHeritageItems?_ga=2.165972984.714120821.1658117920-344545924.1656901875 Memagong Chinese Single Jian …
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Chinese Encampment at the Port (Adelaide) William Anderson Cawthorne
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The City Archives is the business archive of the Council of the City of Sydney and a collecting archive. The City archives holds items from as early as 1842 when the Municipal Council of Sydney was established and provides access to more than 1 million items including documents, photographs, maps …
DetailsHeritage preservation The record of heritage preservation relating to Chinese–Australian history is uneven and inconsistent. Much of it has depended on local circumstances and, in many cases, on the efforts of individual historians or community members who have taken the initiative to preserve particular sites. As with many aspects …
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NLA portal linking up all its Chinese Australian history related material. The National Library actively collects materials created by the Chinese communities and organisations in Australia, as well as Australia-related works published in China. This includes both historical materials and contemporary works.
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"Migration is not a one-way process, it involved a backwards-and-forwards flow of people, knowledge, culture, goods, building practices, and money. Our focus is on the migration of people from Zhongshan Prefecture (in Guangdong) to New South Wales beginning in the mid-1800s. We aim to increase …
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Australian Heritage Database Heritage database - search for “Chinese” equals 280 results http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl
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The Australian Dictionary of Biography lists 39 people with Chinese heritage.
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Different Sights introduces immigrants from non-English-speaking backgrounds who have settled, for longer or shorter periods of time, on the New England Tableland in northern New South Wales, Australia. Not exclusively Chinese it has over 200 Chinese related links, including 22 ' Artifacts and Objects '. Not exclusively Chinese it has …
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Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia (CHIA) database is a catalogue of historical images of Chinese, Chinese immigrants and their descendants held in Australia. It primarily draws on the photographic holdings of the Chinese Museum but also includes photographs from other online archives, publications and private family collections. https://www …
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The monument erected by the Chung Wah Association commemorates Chinese pioneers. The Chinese were introduced into the colony as labourers and did not receive very formal funerals as they were generally treated as outcasts in both life and death. Many Christians refused to allow 'heathen' Chinese to be buried in …
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First Chinese Australian literature written in Chinese The first novel of the Chinese Australian experience was written before the fall of the Qing Empire, albeit by a die-hard republican. The rediscovery of this long-forgotten Chinese-language novel around a century after it first appeared in printoffers a rare …
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Stone or brick cisterns for water storage - commonly mistaken for wells and also commonly attributed to Chinese people. Many stone or brick cisterns – which are for water storage and not wells at all – are often attributed to Chinese make. Three times while tracing the Robe walk – at Robe, Harrow, and …
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Harrow like many towns in rural Victoria had Chinese market gardeners. In a rare kind of memorial a local resident in his old age remembered a wooden horse powered irrigation pump used by at least one such gardener. A nephew constructed this model now on display at the Harrow Historical …
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The cemetery was built in 1882 on the hills in Pok Fu Lam of Hong Kong. It is managed by The Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union (香港華人基督教聯會). Ma Ying Piu, Gock Chuen and Choy Hing were members of the Church of …
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"Mr Grainer proposed "That application be made to the Acting Warden to have the Chinese, humpies and joss house removed, as their close proximity to the Hospital was a nuisance, and against the well being of the patients." Morning Post , 12 May 1898, p.4 .
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The sign of See Poy & Son Pty Ltd in Innisfail. The sign of See Poy & Son Pty Ltd in Innisfail. The company was originally founded by Tom See Poy and a few countrymen as 'Kam Woh Store' in 1882. After operating for three years, See Poy bought the shares from …
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The Chinese inhabitants of Killarney have established a Joss-house, which was opened last week with great eclat. The Queenslander , Saturday 29 September 1894, p.583 . They have their own store and Joss house, and number in all over 200, only a few of whom are females. The Brisbane Courier …
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"Our other sketch gives a glimpse of Murrumbidgee scenery at a point near where the brewery is erected and where the Chinese have erected a temple or joss-house. The latter almost over hangs the bank, and is in a risky place in the event of a flood." Australian …
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“A correspondent of the Bombala Times sends the following account of a terrible conflagration "that occurred at Craigie, on Friday, the 11th instant. He states that the whole township, with the exception of two stores and the Joss houses, has been totally destroyed. The loss sustained by the Chinese …
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CHINESE JOSS-HOUSE. --- Amongst the many recent erections in the district, perhaps the most singular in many respects is the Joss-house or temple, constructed last week by some of the Chinese on Strike-a-light Flat. It is built of calico strained on poles, in the usual manner of …
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A "Joss House," or Chinese temple, was opened at Hill End last Thursday week. The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 August 1874, p.3.
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Wing On & Co. was founded by Gock Lock with his friends in 1897 in Haymarket. The company primarily engaged in the wholesale and retail of vegetables and fruit but later started a remittance business for overseas Chinese. Wing On Financial House was set up in Zhongshan as a delivery agent …
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In 1892, Ma Ying Piu together with fellow villagers from Zhongshan including Ma Wing Chan, George Kwok Bew and James Hing Choy formed Wing Sang & Co., based in Haymarket, Sydney, a company that was engaged in wholesaling and retailing fruit and vegetables. Originally, the company imported bananas from northern Queensland …
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The Chinese Youth League (CYL) was first established as the Sydney Chinese Youth Drama Association on 1 July 1939. It was formed by a group of patriotic Australian Chinese Youth gathering regularly in the Shanghai Cafe on Campbell Street, Sydney. Three years later, the name was officially changed to the …
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The Museum presents a story of grit and determination and the contribution of the Chinese people to the development of the Northern Territory. A particular focus is the impact of World War II: the bombing of Darwin, the fate of China Town and the contribution by the Darwin Chinese people …
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The National Library of Australia host many documents and items related to Chiese Austrlaian hisotry and is on of the few major institutions that maintains a portal related to their collection.
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The National Archives Australia houses the records of the White Australia Policy.
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/107279526 - North Willoughby https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192530644 - Southern Districts https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71732001 - Adelaide St New Farm (QLD) "In the early days of the tin mines, Stanthorpe had its Chinatown, with its joss house, disreputable …
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NSW Regional histories with some mention of Chinese https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-01/regional-histories_of-nsw-240396.pdf
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Young Joss House not far from where the Lambing Flat riots took place. "The 'Burrangong Argus' mentions that about a year or more ago a Chinaman set up a joss-house in Main-street, Young, combining with his religious functions a little conjuring and fortune-telling, and a great deal …
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Young See Blackguard Gully https://www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au/App/Item/ViewItem?itemId=2760060
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"The Chinamen who were successful at gold mining on the Maytown field were no exception; and most of the joss-houses on the field were noted for their treasures in the form of exquisite hand-carved effigies in wood, bronze, and stone, beautifully carved panels, and other striking ornamentations …
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"Opening of a Chinese Joss house at Rocky River. The new Chinese joss-house or temple at the Rocky Rivcr, whicb has been in course of construction for some time, was nominally opened for the purpose ot the usual Celestial devotions shortly after midnight on Thurs- day. Considering the …
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Possibly two temples at Pine Creek Metal ornament from the roof of the Chinese Temple in Pine Creek Date: 1880's A large community of Chinese lived at Pine Creek in the 1880's and up until the 1930's. This is all that remains of the Joss House. https …
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Pine Creek Source: Visit Pine Creek https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1aWXpajPsjG8gTjt-39nhzqyBeU0&ll=-13.82318199999998%2C131.8347107000000
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Misconception: Traditional Chinese Dress in Australia A persistent misconception about Chinese people in colonial Australia is that they continued to wear traditional Chinese clothing. In reality, most Chinese migrants arriving in Australia by the mid-19th century had already adapted to European dress styles. Even as they disembarked from ships …
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Translation Left page (seal and name) 濂方金滿 (Lian Fang Jinman) The red diamond stamp verifies authenticity of membership entry. Left margin: 雪梨香邑隆都同善堂名份簿 (Sydney Heungshan Lungdu Tung Shan Tong Register of Membership) — literally: “Register of the Lungdu …
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Translation: (Right page, vertical text, right to left) When the benevolent association of the Lungdu community was first established, it was for the purpose of promoting mutual aid and charity among people from the same district, so that all might share in goodwill and righteousness. The intention was to act …
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Full translation: Hong Kong Heungshan Lungdu Tung Shan Tong – Membership Register Member No. 110: Brother Fong Kam-man Right-hand column (vertical, large characters): 方金滿兄 Brother Fong Kam-man Centre (small characters): 字第百十號 Character No. 110 Left-hand bordered column (vertical): 梨事 …
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乾隆通寶 ( Qianlong Tongbao ) Translation and Context: 乾隆 (Qianlong) — Refers to the reign title of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736–1795) of the Qing dynasty. 通寶 (Tongbao) — Literally “circulating treasure,” a standard inscription meaning currency or coin of general circulation . Full Meaning: “Qianlong Tongbao” = Circulating coin …
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Honour in an official is joy in his people, Respectfully presented by the Chinese people of Braidwood.
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Overseas Chinese Registration Certificate This is to certify that Mr. Chen Zhilong/Chin Long Dep (陳執龍) , aged 45 years , a native of Baisha Township, Taishan County, Guangdong Province , born in Australia , currently residing in Broome, Western Australia , occupation: merchant , has been duly registered in accordance with the Overseas …
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A translation of the Chinese reads: Let it be known to the people of Tang (the Chinese): The Prefectural and Provincial Governors jointly appointed our bureau to administer. Proclaimed by Soo Heong Seng and Lock Yook Kow in the ninth year [of the Emperor’s reign] that this land is …
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(centre) 瀛海归仁 Benevolence comes from over the seas (upper Left to lower left) 光绪十五年六月 榖旦立 Set on a good day in the sixth month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu (corresponding to July 1889 …
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"The Chinese in Albury held a high festival on 29th ult., in honor of their great philosopher, Confucius. Their Joss-house, on the banks of the Murray, was decked out in the most characteristic style,..." Leader, 9 November 1867, p.13. "Opening of a Chinese Joss House at Albury …
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Wagga Joss House in Fitzmaurice Street. "The Chinese of this town and their Celestial brethren from all parts of the colony to the number of about 200 have been celebrating the opening of a new "Joss House" in Fitzmaurice-street, every day and night this week." "A great many townspeople …
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OPENING OF THE CHINESE JOSS HOUSE AT BUCKLAND. "The temple itself was about twenty feet in length, by twelve or fourteen in width, neatly framed, the cornicing of both walls and roof being of canvass or calico; the inside had a flooring of boards, which was matted and carpeted in …
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“Leaving the one main street we go a, few hundred yards to a separate building of larger dimensions. This is the joss-house. Hundreds of visitors are round about it, and here, too, we find most of the Chinese congregated. Beautiful and costly lanterns are hung by the josshouse …
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"Almost the first dray load of merchandise brought directly on to the plains consisted of a costly set of religious funishments ..." "Whatever may appear the architectural frailties of our Chinese dwelling places, which may be said to consist for the most part of palings, poles, and rice-bags, they …
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A JOSS-HOUSE BURNT. CONDOBOLIN, Wednesday. — A fire broke out in the Chinese Joss-house at the camp, situated on Goobank Creek, at the extreme end of the town. The Daily Telegraph , 16 January 1902, p.7. "The Chinese Joss House at Condobolin was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night …
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Scrub cutting Alongside gold mining and market gardening, one of the most important yet least recognised occupations undertaken by Chinese workers in Australia was scrub cutting. Despite its prominence and its contribution to the opening up of large areas of agricultural land, it has received surprisingly little attention in Australian …
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The Chinese Camp at Beechworth. CONSECRATION OF A JOSS-HOUSE. By John Cope Garnett. The Australasian, 6 April 1867, p.28. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138053060 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/84569595 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9629928 https://trove.nla.gov.au …
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Lit Sing Gong Temple, Innisfail, one of only a handful of surviving temples in Australia. See also, Cairns Post , 30 May 1940, p.6 , Sale of Joss House, "plans of the trustees in relation to improving conditions for indigent members of the Chinese community." Image: Welcome at Joss House, Innisfail …
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The sugar plantations of Queensland were a contested frontier of the White Australia policy, comparable in many ways to the pearl-shelling industry of northern Australia. Both required a large, disciplined, and inexpensive labour force — and plantation owners were convinced that non-white workers were better suited to this demanding …
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OPENING OF THE JOSS HOUSE — HARRIETVILLE. "The Joss house was divided into three compartments, the section fronting the road being the largest, and measuring about twenty by forty feet. The middle division was about fourteen by twenty feet; the inner temple appeared, to be about the same size." Ovens and …
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244944393 In various other parts of Australia, where Chinese work in different occupations and have no Joss-houses, there are, nevertheless, places of worship, but these are generally established in a private house, where a few collect, from time to time, and pay …
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"THE HOUSE OF "Joss."—The Chinese residents of Adelaide are making their place of worship, which is situated in Morphett-street and is constituted of wood and galvanized iron, very imposing, ornaments arriving by almost every mail. On Thursday Mr. Bagster visited the building, and was shown over by …
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212842794 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/214953141 "Bluff Road, next Chinese Joss-house." The Evening Telegraph , 6 April 1909, p.2. "Chinese New Year GREAT CELEBRATIONS AT THE JOSS HOUSE, Monday was feast day in connection with Chinese New Year, and …
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"JOSS HOUSE. An interesting ceremony took place last week at the Chinese Camp, the opening of a Joss House for the behoof of the Mongolians settled in the district." "The building now opened is by no means an imposing structure, being of weatherboard and of very modest dimensions." "In …
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The 三聖宮 - Temple of the Holy Triad ( “Temple of the Three Saints” or “Three Sages Palace” ) was constructed in 1885-86 for the Cantonese Chinese community of Brisbane. It is also known as Sarm Sung Goon (the Cantonese pronunciation of the name) and the Breakfast Creek Joss House …
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The Chinese have built a joss-house at Sydney at a cost of £1.000. 1887 South Australian Weekly Chronicle , Saturday 7 May 1887, p.22. "A Chinese Joss-house. The destructive fire, this morning, will for some time at least prevent the Chinese residents of Sydney from holding their …
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"CHINESE Worsnip.-On the left hand of the Forest Creek road, a few hundred yards out of town, there has been within these few days erected a Joss House, which, though of small size, presents a very glittering appearance. It is a tent of about 10 x 8, with …
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Emmaville (Vegetable Creek) was a thriving tin mining town with a large Chinese population and perhaps two Joss Houses. THE NEW SOUTH WALES PREMIER JOSS-HOUSE. Emmaville, Friday. — The biggest Chinese Joss-house in New South Wales was opened here this morning with due pomp and solemnity bv the Chinese …
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"The closing ceremony in connection with the opening of the new Chinese Joss house in Adelaide-street took place yesterday, and was celebrated by a banquet, at which the Mayor of Cooktown, the Police Magistrate, and other prominent citizens attended." Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser , 30 June …
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GOLD AND RICE, STOLEN FROM JOSS HOUSE About midday yesterday the Chinese Joss House at Emu Point camp, was entered by someone who stole three-quarters of a pound of rice 3dwt of gold, valued at 15s. At two o'clock Ging Foon reported the matter to the police, and …
DetailsNumber of temples in Northeast Tasmania closed and contents now part of the Guan Yin Temple Launceston. "Their main centres, where they erected Joss houses, were Moorina and Weldborough, where many of them lived, also at Garribaldi there was another large camp and Joss House." The Cornwall Chronicle, 25 September …
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Chinese Temple and settlement site is located north west of the township of Croydon. While few artifacts from the Croydon Temple have survived the actual site (rediscovered only in 1997 after a grass fire) allows the outline of the temple, including locally carved pillar supports to be seen. "The President …
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Lion Creek Rd Joss House. Joss House altar now located at back of Rockhampton Chinese Association. A number of Joss Houses seem to have existed in various locations around Rockhampton. In 1930 it was at Lion Creek Road in what was described as a "neat little cottage". The current Joss …
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Two temples are recorded, both no longer exisiting but many items from the Tingha Temples are now at the McCrossins Mill Museum. There also appears to have been a Masonic Hall. OPENING OF A CHINESE JOSS HOUSE. (From the Inverell Times , -Jan. 31 ) Saturday last was a grand day with …
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Guan Di Temple erected within the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery by the Launceston Chinese community. This temple holds the contents of a number of Chinese temples from north-eastern Tasmanian mining towns. As these temples gradually closed down, their contents were kept and eventually donated to the Museum. The …
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A stone built well of unknown origin falsely attributed to Chinese goldseekers. This was one of numerous wells on the route many people, including Chinese goldseekers, walked in 1856 between Adelaide and the Victorian goldfields or Melbourne. The mentions of the name provided no indication of what kind of well …
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Jade bracelets buried with different individuals. "These precious jade bracelets were buried with different individuals." Source: https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/UB-Online-Exhibition_A4_WEB.pdf Douglas Lam, March 2023 “... people told me the colour [of jade] would be enhanced and that it carries …
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Kam Yuen General Store in Mossman Queensland. Chinese general stores played an important role in the regional communities in the 19th century, providing a range of services including supply stores, post offices, banks, cook shops etc.
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Acquiring English was essential and achieved in a variety of ways. Arriving in an English-speaking society such as colonial Australia meant that Chinese migrants had to acquire at least some command of English, and many did so with notable success. Interpreters were always in demand, yet a significant number …
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Hawking of vegetables was a common occupation. In addition to market gardening, the hawking of vegetables was a common occupation for Chinese men in the 19th and early 2oth centuries. Often but not always this was undertaken by the same person who grew the vegetables, partucualry in smaller towns. By …
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Certificate Exempting Dictation Test - CEDT CEDT's were issued to allow some to re-enter Australia who might otherwise be declared a prohibited immigrant on the basis of their race. The new Commonwelath of Australia felt it neeeded to be 'white', a concensus generally labeled the 'White Australia policy. Consequently …
DetailsTo avoid the Queensland poll tax many walked overland from Darwin. "Discussion of lengthy overland travels by Chinese immigrants within colonial Australia have traditionally focused on the walk from Robe in South Australia to the Victorian goldfields, about 500 kilometres, between 1857 and 1862 involving around 16,500 migrants. Over …
DetailsChinese people were used to using a legal system and made much use of the British one from the first. Within Chinese culture, the use of the legal system was long established, and so when Chinese people arrived in Australia, they appeared to have little hesitation in engaging with the …
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Numerous incidents ranging from attacks to riots have been directed against Chinese people. The Victorian goldfields were probably the most consistently violent with that on the Buckland goldfield resulting in most deaths Ararat and other places saw Chinese miners driven off their claims. Nevertheless that on Lambing Flat, despite no …
DetailsChinese people in Australia have been involved in all the major conflicts that Australia has been party to from the Boxer Rebellion to WWI and the Anti-Japanese War. The question of national identity and conflicts involving China and Australia have played an important role in Chinese Australian history. The …
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See Yup Temple 四邑關帝廟 Melbourne https://www.seeyuptemple.com.au/about THE GREAT JOSS HOUSE CONTROVERSY. 1856 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/171431385 The Chinese temple in South Melbourne (then called Emerald Hill) was built in 1856 by the See Yup Society. In 1866 …
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Hou Wang Temple, Atherton "The Hou Wang temple was built in 1903 by the community of the Chinatown at Atherton using local materials for construction and furnishings ordered especially from China. It provided a social and spiritual focus for over a thousand people in the township and the surrounding area …
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Contemporary temple “It is one of the branch temples of Fo Guang Shan, founded in 1967 by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, which has over 200 branches worldwide. "Nan Tien" in Chinese, literally means "Paradise of the South". This is the biggest Buddhist temple in the southern hemisphere.” Nan Tien Temple …
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A description of Chinese people in Castlemaine and nearby towns in highly discriminatory terms. Heavy focus on relations with non-Chinese women. Part of a range of similar tracts and newspaper articles. Can be contrasted with more objective or even complimentary articles. Especially The Chinese Question written around the same …
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Image and details to be supplied by Queensland Musuem Illuminated Address CH64775 Accessioned H31516 Illuminated Address QMSB/SH/OS/I/4/1 Silken Illuminated Address Silk (Textiles) 30 Apr 1897 Australia Donated to the Queensland Museum by Mrs Audrey Walcott. It belonged to her husband. It was presented to him …
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The Kuomintang or Chinese Nationalist Party had widespread representation around Australia in the 1930s, especially as the Japanese invasion progressed. Local branches held fund raising events among the local communities.
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The Coffin Home was originally established in 1875 by the Man Mo Temple in Kennedy Town near a slaughterhouse. In 1899, it was rebuilt in its current location under the new management of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, thus receiving its present name, Tung Wah Coffin Home. The Coffin Home …
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The Tung Wah News or Dong Hua Xin Bao (East China News) was established in Sydney on 29 June 1898 in response to the Sino-Japanese war. It was funded through shares held mostly by Chinese merchants. It also was an official newspaper of the Chinese Chambers of Commerce of …
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The Chinese Presbyterian Church (CPC) in Australia started in 1883 when the Presbyterian Church of NSW appointed John Young Wai (周容威) to preach Christianity to the Chinese migrants. The Chinese Presbyterian Church (CPC) in Australia started in 1883 when the Presbyterian Church of NSW appointed John Young Wai …
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Completed in 1926 and named ‘Hop Yat’ (meaning ‘united as one’). Hop Yat Church is in the neo-gothic architectural style and has a capacity of over 1500 people over its three levels. Chinese Australian Ma Ying Piu, Ma Wing Chan, Gock Chuen and Hing Choy were members of the …
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Riverina crossed the NSW/Victorian border Research Essays In 2016 the Museum of the Riverina published 5 book-length essays by Dr Barry McGowan, which are available to read and download. The essays examine the history of Chinese settlement in Hay, Narrandera, Temora, Tumut and Wagga Wagga. You are welcome …
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Perth has had a small but vibrant Chinese community since the end of the 19th century. It's most unique feature being the Chung Wah Association established in 1910 which was the first to create a general association of open to all Chinese people rather than being based on district …
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1882 Parliamentary vist and report https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160157820
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Police census of 1909 reported 431 Chinese people in Brisbane district. Fortitude Valley 96Roma Street 100Enoggera 49Sth Brisbane 29Stephens 33Toowong 11Woolloongabba 14 Queensland State Archives: Chinese Census: ITM86452
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West Torrens article - no sources - poor image of Adelaide Joss House https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iuMJmNqRkEWR9NneWbrvalffc6yF7--f/view
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Site of nurmerous tin mines: Branxholm (Ruby Flat, Fancy Flat), Derby, Garabaldi, Moorina, Weldborough, Gladstone, Scottsdale. All but Derby has numerous Chinese miners often working for tribute and all had a Joss House. As tin mining and the number of residents declined the temple artifacts were moved until only that …
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The consumption of opium was common by Chinese people and legal until the early 20th century. The association between Chinese people and opium was as strong as that between Europeans and alcohol. When for example John Dundas Crawford1 was making his investigative tour of Chinese people in Australia in 1877 …
DetailsIt was not uncommon for the Chinese community to participate in community events, often so as to add an exotic element. Chinese people living in Australia were not as isolated from mainstream society as many older, racially biased or victim-centred narratives suggest. In fact, Chinese communities were often active …
DetailsChinese were often objects of fascination as fear and hatred to white Australians and this often led to strange assumptions. An interesting and little-considered aspect of Chinese Australian history is how Chinese people were not only subjected to racism but also to a kind of exoticism. All kinds of …
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Europeans also had links to China, missionaries, tourists, artists as well all often with a strong sense of the exotic in regard to Chinese made items often referred to as Chinoiserie. Many of the museum collections around therefore Australia contain items labeled "Chinese" that are often group together with those …
DetailsFor purely political reasons, New Zealand is often neglected in discussions of Chinese-Australian history. In reality, however, New Zealand also had its own significant Chinese heritage population. Like Australia, it experienced gold rushes in which Chinese miners actively participated, and it implemented similar exclusionary measures. New Zealand introduced its …
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Lai Wor School was located in Waisha village (now Zhuhai City). It was built in the 1930s with donations from Choy Hing and Choy Chong, the founders of the Sun Company. Lai Wor School was located in Waisha village (now Zhuhai City). It was built in the 1930s with donations …
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The Certificate of Exemption From Dictation Test of James Choy Hing. The Certificate of Exemption From Dictation Test of James Choy Hing. The document was issued by the Customs of NSW according to the Immigration Restriction Act 1901-1905 and signed by the customs collector. The document was for a …
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The Republic of China recognised overseas born Chinese as citizens. Dep Family This is a Huáqiáo Dēngjì Zhèng (華僑登記證) — an Overseas Chinese Registration Certificate. After 1912, the Republic of China’s consulates (like the one in Melbourne or Sydney) issued these to Chinese nationals or ethnic …
DetailsROC role and attitude to Overseas Chinese. The Republic of China, which nominally governed China from the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911 until the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, played a significant role in shaping the modern Chinese diaspora. The Guomindang (Nationalist Party …
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The KMT / Nationalist Party was strongly supported by Chinese born and Chinese heritage people living overseas ( huaqiao ). Party membership was common. KMT history and relationship with huaqiao . Dep family in Broome - pearl dealer
DetailsThe Sun Company Department Store was originally founded by Choy Hing and Choy Chong in 1912 in Hong Kong. The Sun Company Department Store was originally founded by Choy Hing and Choy Chong in 1912 in Hong Kong. Following the success of the Sun Company in Kong Kong, the Choy …
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Man Sun Wing was an international trading company. Container in the Golden Dragon Museum "Man Sun Wing (萬信榮), the transnational business enterprise jointly run by our family (Fongs) and Loueys, which had its headquarters in Hong Kong, and business interests in China, Australia (NT, NSW, VIC, WA), Fiji …
Details"Presented in 1978 to the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company by the Nan Chong Hong Ltd. of Taiwan, this screen commemorated the dairy company’s 75 years of production and its enduring business partnership with the Taiwanese powdered milk importer." Source: Storyplace, https://storyplace.org.au/story/land …
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Qing dynasty coins found in Wagga. Use is unclear but possibly as gambling markers. No exchange value in NSW "In 2006 a number of Qing Dynasty coins were uncovered at the northern end of Fitzmaurice Street in Wagga Wagga. Originating in China they are tangible evidence of the Chinese ‘camp …
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Harry Ma's KMT certificate document dated 1937. Harry Ma was a longstanding supporter of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). He had been a leader of the Sydney chapter of the party in Australia and had attended the party’s Convention in Melbourne. The certificate was an official document issued …
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Wing On Department was founded by Gock Lock and Gock Chin in Hong Kong in 1907, with the capital they earned from Wing On & Co in Sydney and their remittance business. The first Wing On Store was located in Wing On Department at 167 Queen’s Road Central with an …
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The Sincere Department Store was one of the first department stores established in Hong Kong. It was founded by Ma Ying Piu (馬應彪) (1864-1944) and his business partners in 1900. The Sincere Department Store was one of the first department stores established in Hong Kong. It was …
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Kwok Mansion is located in the village of Zhuxiuyuan, Zhongshan, the hometown of Gock brothers. In what is now called South District, close to the fast encroaching high rises of Zhongshan City (中山市) is the impressive mansion of the Kwok 郭 (Guo) family. (See the Ma family of …
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Wing On & Co leased the warehouse on the corner of Quay Street and Ultimo Road (built in 1917). In the 1930s, Wing On & Co leased the warehouse on the corner of Quay Street and Ultimo Road (built in 1917) to be its head office. Wing On Fruit Store (founded in …
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The Ma Mansion was the residence of Ma Ying Piu in his home village, Shachong, in Zhongshan. Ma Ying Piu was the founder of Wing Sang & Co and Sincere Department Stores. Ma Mansion is located within Ma Gong Memorial Park, which is comprised of three buildings: a memorial hall, a …
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Bananas and the Chinese Merchant Networks Bananas and the banana trade were a major factor in the growth of some of the international businesses run by Chinese merchants. Banana growing was first established in Queensland, and the Chinese community took an active part despite discrimination from the Queensland government, which …
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Chinese women in Australian were rare before the mid-20th and descriptions of them rarer. The history of the Chinese in Australia is, for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, overwhelmingly a history of men. Only as the Australian-born Chinese population began to grow in the early …
DetailsFrom cartoons to art, Chinese in Australia have been common subjects Images, cartoons or art, not to mention photographs, often have the power to create and sustain an impression or a stereotype that far exceeds that of the written word. From the first arrival of Chinese people in the Australian …
DetailsStereotypes both negative and positive greatly influence interpretation. Perhaps the two most dominant stereotypes of Chinese people in Australia are that they were hapless victims of white racism and discrimination, and that they were extremely hardworking and frugal. Like all good stereotypes these have elements of truth while leaving little …
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Beyond the Stereotypes: Everyday and Cultural Life Stereotypes have long dominated the public image of Chinese Australian history, reducing a complex and diverse experience to a handful of occupations — the miner, the market gardener, the storekeeper, or the hapless victim of white racism. Yet historical records reveal a far broader …
DetailsNumerous surveys and census of Chinese people were undertaken by the Colonies and Commonwealth Governments. As the colonies of pre-Federation Australia grew increasingly obsessed with defining themselves as white societies, their census practices began to reflect that ideology. Aboriginal and Chinese populations were deliberately separated from the general figures …
DetailsArchaeological Evidence of Chinese Life in Australia The archaeological record of Chinese presence in Australia is fragmentary but revealing. Many sites associated with Chinese settlements, mining camps, and market gardens have never been systematically excavated, leaving vast potential for future discovery. Where professional archaeological work has been undertaken, the most …
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The Chinese community took part in a wide range of festivals—most obviously Chinese New Year, but also events such as the opening of Joss Houses. They also joined in local celebrations, particularly in Bendigo with the Easter Parade, as well as a number of other parades across Victoria. In …
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Pig oven built by market gardener Say Joe Sing Lee around 1913. "In 2017, retired market gardener Tin Sing Lee showed Barry McGowan and I a pig oven on his land in Percy Street, Wellington near the Wellington Cemetery on the Bell river flats. Wellington, not far from Stuart Town …
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Wing Hing Long store converted into a museum. https://mgnsw.org.au/organisations/wing-hing-long-museum-inc/
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Major reposiory of documents and objects related to Chinese Australian history. Poorly cataloged
DetailsThe plaque commemorates those who served on the Allied Chinese Ships during World War Two. Following the fall of Hong Kong followed by Singapore in World War Two there were approximately 32 ships owned by the China Navigation Company (head office Hong Kong) and leased out. Six ships were requisitioned …
DetailsNiche industry - more common in North America The image of the Chinese laundry is a stereotype more familiar in North America than in Australia, perhaps reflecting differences in climate and domestic habits. Nevertheless, Chinese-run laundries did exist in Australia, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne. On occasion, they became targets …
DetailsGrowing tobacco was once widespread among Chinese people in NSW and QLD. Chinese participation in the tobacco industry in colonial New South Wales and Victoria forms part of the wider pattern of Chinese engagement in labour-intensive, small-plot agriculture that required persistence, technical skill, and flexible leasing arrangements. 1 …
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State Museums - specialist Museums - Local Museums - the good the bad and the ugly. Items related to Chinese–Australian history are scattered across the country. Some remain in private collections, but most are accessible in local history museums, state-based museums, and, of course, within a few national collections. Only a …
DetailsCabinet making by Chinese workers was a major niche industry that inspired much anti-Chinese legislation and the first organised industrial movement by such workers in Australia. "In the early twentieth century, Chinese cabinetmakers’ militancy in Melbourne not only secured a fair wage from Chinese employers but also influenced emerging …
DetailsGuntowers Scattered in their thousands around the landscape of the Pearl River Delta of southern China can be found diao lou (碉樓) (lit. guntowers). In a wide range of decorative styles, these many towers have in common their defensive features mostly consisting of narrow slits for guns and heavy …
DetailsRole of Colonialism: HK, diaspora, Dictation test, whiteness, within the Empire, Aboriginal expropriation, Much of the early history of the Chinese in Australia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can only be understood within the broader framework of colonialism. Colonialism defined Australia as a white settler project of British …
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Hong Kong has played a major role in Chinese Australian history on many levels. Hong Kong became a British controlled port and colony as a result of the First Opium War. Despite its government it was also always a majority Chinese population largely from the Pearl River Delta and especially …
DetailsUntil 1911 the Manchu ruled China under a dynasty known as the Qing. For most Chinese people coming to Australia in the 19th century the land they came from was referred to as the land of the Tang - a previous Chinese dynasty with a unifying cultural rather than political meaning …
DetailsOne of the most significant features of the history of Chinese people in Australia—mainly those from the Pearl River Delta—was that they maintained continuous links back to their villages of origin, to their families, and to China itself. This began with the sending of remittances, but also included …
DetailsChinese Australian history within the context of the Chinese diaspora. The Chinese diaspora or the Overseas Chinese are conceptualisations that describe the large number of people originating in China who have not only migrated to many parts of the world but who have maintained a sense of "Chineseness" over generations …
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Quong Tart was a prominent Chinese-Australian businessman who was well-known in his day and who in recent years has become well-known again to students of Chinese-Australian history. Quong Tart bridged the world of Chinese and non-Chinese Australian society in the late 19thcentury. Quong Tart came …
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Chinese Opera is one of the great unknowns of Australian history with this art form actually appearing quite regularly in Australia from the 1850s until the early 20th century. That the frequent performance of Chinese Opera in Australia comes as a surprise to many is largely due to the White …
DetailsThe image of Chinese people toiling unremittingly with little or no time for leisure is as one-sided as the image of the inveterate gambler and habitual opium smoker. Music, tea-drinking and chatting among friends, perhaps while smoking cigars, were also likely sources of entertainment. Gambling and opium were …
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Gambling was a stereotype for Chinese in Australia. Gambling was common within the Chinese community, particularly during the period when it was largely made up of single men working in isolated occupations such as market gardening or on the goldfields. Over time, a strong stereotype developed around Chinese gambling, and …
Detailspakapu/pakapoo ticket / 白鴿票 - Cantonese = baahk gaap piu Like a Pak-a-pu ticket" was a phrase once common in Australian English and implied that something was extremely messy or confused. In other words, pretty much like how the Chinese characters on a pakapu/pakapoo ticket (白鴿 …
Details"The small numbers of Chinese women in colonial Australia, and the scattered and fragmentary nature of our sources about them, mean there are particular challenges in uncovering and writing about their lives. To date, these challenges have meant Chinese women have been largely written out of Chinese Australian histories …
DetailsChinese Organisations in Australia From their first arrival in Australia, Chinese people have always been well-organised. This was particularly true of the Cantonese, who formed associations based on their home districts or villages. These included the Lungdu, the Four Districts (Siyi), and other Taishan-area associations. Organisation was the …
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The need for interpreters was evident from the earliest arrivals of Chinese people in Australia, particularly among the Amoy men who came under contract. These contracts were frequently broken, leading to many court cases. Difficulties with interpreters were commonly reported, and magistrates sometimes dismissed cases when no interpreter was available …
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Many stores run by Chinese merchants specialised in importing goods from China via Hong Kong and sometimes Singapore. From the very beginning, the Chinese community in Australia included merchants—people who came specifically to trade and establish stores in ports such as Sydney and Melbourne. These merchants supplied goods to …
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The Empire Reform Association (Protect the Emperor Society) was organised around the Chinese diaspora to push for a Chinese constitutional monarchy. After the failure of the One Hundred Days’ Reform in 1898, Kang Youwei led the monarchists who hoped to restore the influence of the reformist Emperor Kuang Hsu, by …
DetailsChinese Empire Reform Society of New South Wales's Minute book. The New South Wales Chinese Empire Reform Association formed in 1899 and was affiliated with an international monarchist movement of overseas Chinese, active mostly between 1899 and 1911. Sydney merchant Ping Nam was one of the leaders of the …
DetailsThe White Australia Policy was more than an immigration restriction. It was an effort to think Australia white that encompassed the whitewashing of Australian history. It needs to be remembered that the so-called White Australia Policy was more than just a set of discriminatory laws and immigration restrictions. It …
DetailsThis was a common phrase in the 19th century within which aspects of the rights of Chinese people in Australia were discussed. 1. Economic and Labour Dimensions Many colonial politicians and later trade unionists framed the issue in terms of wages and competition. They claimed Chinese labourers worked longer hours …
DetailsLike alluvial gold mining, tin mining could be carried out by individuals or small groups. Tin mines and Chinese miners, often working through the "tribute" system, existed in the southern Queensland (Stantorpe), northern NSW (Tingha, Emmaville), the Northern Territory and north-east Tasmania (Weldborough, Moorina, etc.). Tin prices and Chinese …
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Harry Sunn – retired https://www.bundabergnow.com/2022/02/10/harrys-history-from-the-wah-do-to-the-sunn-wa/ Chinese and South Sea Islanders mixed one end of Bourbong St. Sly grog, opium. Center for sugar industry. Chinese owned stores. Chew family. Market gardens. Conflict. Pacific Islanders. Kanakatown/Chinatown …
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Chinese section referred to as PSA - Portion Set Aside. https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/bundaberg/chinese-past-explored/news-story/3b86ddfc119f56487c240023e901552e
DetailsThe wooden sign of Wing Sang & Co. was used to hang in the company’s head office on 58 Hay Street in Haymarket. Gordon Ma who managed the company until it was sold in the 1980s, has kept it in his home after he sold the business. Wing Sang & Co …
DetailsWing Sang & Co. was an import and export fruit merchant and commission agent which operated in Haymarket of Sydney between 1890-1984. Wing Sang & Co. was an import and export fruit merchant and commission agent which operated in Haymarket of Sydney between 1890-1984. Wing Sang was founded in 1890 …
DetailsWing Sang & Co. building on 20-22 Campbell Street Haymarket (constructed in 1892). Wing Sang & Co. was an import and export fruit merchant and commission agent which operated in Haymarket of Sydney between 1890-1984. Wing Sang was founded in 1890, originally as a fruit shop by a group of …
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The Chinese Market Gardens located between the cemetery and the school on Bunnerong Road, La Perouse. The site is bounded to the north by the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park. There were three lots comprising an area of around 7 hectares (Lots 1077, 1078, 1079). The site is on low-lying …
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Parkes Street market garden in Top Ryde. Parkes Street market garden was located a Top Ryde (down the hill from the current civic centre). It was one of the Chinese market gardens located in the Ryde Local Government area in the early to mid-1900s. The first Chinese market gardens …
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Burial records of four Chinese (Ah Suce, Aha Cha, Ah Fay and A' Hook) at Camperdown Cemetery dated 1860s. Descriptions provided by Jenna of Newtown Erskineville Anglican Church: The records that Ah Suce and Aha Cha were common interments, and Ah Fay was buried at the expense of the Infirmary …
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Likely Amoy man Information provided by Newtown Erskineville Anglican Church regarding headstone of Feak Fune: Feak Fune was a common interment, but it appears that the plot was later purchased (as marked on the burial record - this may be why he was allowed to have a headstone). His burial number …
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Camperdown Cemetery is a historic cemetery located on Church Street in Newtown, Sydney. Camperdown Cemetery is a historic cemetery located on Church Street in Newtown, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The cemetery was founded in 1848 and was for twenty years the main general cemetery …
DetailsChinese fishing industry. "Evidence for Chinese fish-curing establishments in Victoria, New South Wales, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, leaves no doubt that Chinese people were heavily involved in Australia’s colonial fishing in- dustry. Documentary evidence shows overseas Chinese activity in Victoria’s fishing industry by 1856 …
DetailsMany languages and dialects were common - districts, interpreters, self-identification. Perhaps one of the most significant differences between the Chinese community and the majority population was, of course, their languages. Europeans tended to regard all Chinese people as speaking a single language—“Chinese”—a misconception that persists to some degree …
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Chinese Writing in Early Australia Chinese characters have been used in Australia since the earliest arrival of Chinese people — and probably to a far greater extent than most Australians realise. At first, they appeared as signatures on documents such as naturalisation application and marriage certificates. One of the earliest examples …
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Modern media has transformed how history is researched, archived and presented. The age of digitalisation has transformed the capacity of historians to research and present history. Trove and the National Archives of Australia are the two outstanding examples of digitalisation with a host of State Archives, museums and others striving …
DetailsFrom the late 19th through to the mid-20th century a number of Chinese language newspapers were published in Sydney and Melbourne and distributed around Australia. "Newspapers were not merely ‘reflections’ of Chinese community spirit, as some have suggested, but were active agents in the shaping of urban elites and …
DetailsIn order to avoid the Victoria poll tax some 16,000 Chinese gold seekers embarked at Adelaide and Robe to walk into Victoria. Frightened at the numbers of Chinese miners flocking to its goldfields, the new and tiny Colony of Victoria in 1855 imposed a tax on these arrivals as …
DetailsAfter Indigenous Australians people of Chinese heritage have been the most discriminated against in law. This began with the new Colony of Victoria's poll tax and was followed by similar targeted laws in NSW and then Queensland. Victoria also introduced residents taxes aimed at "Chinese" people, the definition of …
DetailsGold mining is perhaps the most dominant feature of Chinese–Australian history, and it remains the aspect most widely recognised in the broader story of Australia’s past. This prominence, however, has also produced a number of enduring stereotypes, often overshadowing many other parts of the Chinese–Australian experience. Tens …
DetailsThe Chinese Masonic Society represents an interesting organisational developments within the Chinese diaspora. Emerging from the late nineteenth-century network of brotherhood fraternities or so-called secret societies that existed across the overseas Chinese world, it was consciously reshaped in the early twentieth century—reputedly under the influence of Sun …
DetailsAs well as remittances to immediate family those working overseas often made village orientated donations. Also of great impact were the many donations made, often in co-operation with others on projects such as health clinics, schools, street lights, reading rooms, tea pavilions, community buildings, village watch towers and bridges …
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Role of education and schools. Education has always occupied a central place in Chinese society and culture, and the same value was carried into the overseas Chinese communities. Its influence on Chinese Australians can be seen both in the colonies and in the home villages to which migrants maintained close …
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Many Chinese people converted to Christianity after a period in Australia and with a major impact on many levels including business and politics. Christianity played a prominent role in Chinese-Australian history. From the mid-nineteenth century, Christian missions and churches often provided English classes to Chinese men. Conversion to …
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Wooden boards with big character inscriptions. It is a strong tradition in Chinese culture to prominently display written expressions with the meaning and the calligraphic style both of importance. The most common examples of this are the various large wooden boards that were placed in Joss Houses, many of which …
DetailsNegative attitude to things Chinese It was not always the case that Chinese people and their culture were looked down upon or rejected by those of European heritage living in the Australian colonies. In fact, the first arrivals, even on the goldfields, were treated as curiosities (see Bathurst arrivals, 1855 …
DetailsThe accepted policy of all governments of Australia from 1901 until 1972 that Australia should be a predominantly “white” nation. 1. From Platform to Practice While the Australian Labor Party made “White Australia” part of its formal platform in the 1900s, the idea predated Federation. It grew from late-nineteenth …
DetailsA fake test within Australia’s immigration laws from 1901 to 1958 and designed to exclude people on the basis of race without specifically mentioning race. "The Commonwealth of Australia for the first two generations of its existence maintained at the heart of its immigration administration another unique absurdity. Known …
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Due to its dangerous and skilled nature this industry’s reliance on non-white labour led to it being a major exception in the White Australia policy. Chinese people were one of the many diverse ethnic groups this industry was built on. Essay “The exception given to the pearling industry …
DetailsAssociated with Joss Houses, burials and festivals was the consumption of whole pig often roasted in mud or stone constructions known as Pig Ovens. "On mining fields in widely separated parts of Australia, there stand a number of stone and earth ovens built by Chinese miners in the late nineteenth …
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Taiwan off the coast of China was colonised by Chinese people and is now independently governed. The island of Taiwan has had a very chequered history. Its indigenous people are not related to the Chinese but during the 15th and 16th century large numbers of settlers arrived from the Chinese …
DetailsCoins from China are often found in various locations around Australia. While these Chinese coins are often found it is not clear what was their use. The usual assumption being they were used for gambling. For people intending to return to China these coins would have had some value despite …
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Nanjing Road, Shanghai was once famous for its Big Four Department Stores. All four companies were founded by Chinese Australian originating in Zhongshan and who developed their first businesses in Sydney. Shanghai today is a city of towering modern buildings but one that has also preserved much of its grand …
DetailsOne of the fundamentals of Chinese Australian history is that for much of the period the concept “Chinese” is as much a made up one as “Australian”. By this is meant that just as many who arrived in the Australian colonies would have considered themselves primarily Irish or Scots, so …
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Chinese in Australia are usually imagined as gold miners or market gardeners. But their occupations ranged far wider to include not only many large businesses but farming, fishing, scrub cutting, as well as hat making, barbers, artists, shipbuilding and even a dugong hunter. When people think of Chinese Australians, they …
DetailsNumerous formal groups were formed to oppose Chinese immigration and/or businesses. While meetings and lobbying took place in the 1850s and 1860s on the goldfields that produced anti-Chinese laws. It was only in the 1880s that formal organisations were created to either limit Chinese migration or to oppose …
DetailsThe Pearl River Delta (珠江三角洲) is the major source for people of the Chinese (Cantonese) diaspora until the late 20th century. "By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Pearl River Delta region was already much influenced by factors that would contribute to the movement of …
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Remittances to family in the villages were a significant part of the lives of Chinese people in Australia before 1949. "The amount of money remitted naturally varied with the earnings of the individual. Crawford, reporting in 1877, believed that the “average amount so exported [packets of gold dust for relatives …
DetailsStereotyped as a bachelor group many marriages and relationships with European heritage women took place. Marriage and common-law marriage between Chinese men and women of European heritage was quite common in nineteenth-century Australia. These unions produced many children of Eurasian background, which had a noticeable impact on local …
DetailsChinese / Chinese Australian / Australian. Generational change and perception of Chineseness. Statistics and gradual rise in proportion of the Australian born over China born in the 1920s. Role of Australian born such as William Lee experiences in the village. Australian born people of Chinese origin were only grudgingly seen as Australian …
DetailsA short story within a collection of four written by Vivian Chow. Inside the blue covers of this intriguingly titled volume is the first piece of Chinese-Australian literature written in English. It follows The Poison of Polygamy by some twenty years and pre-dates the next example of this …
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General cemetery with a seperate “non-Christian” section referred to as the Pagan section - Chinese, South Sea Islanders, Aboriginals. Also various Chinese people’s graves scattered in denominations. Choy Show. No grave markers have survived in the Pagan section. A memorial to Chinese people was erected in 2014.
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Bronze Memorial recognising unmarked Chinese burials in the Pagan section of Gympie Cemetery. A Memorial stone with a bronze plaque was erected by the local community in 2014 recognising the unmarked Chinese burials in the Pagan section of Gympie Cemetery. Gympie Family History Society
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Register of “pagan burials” including Chinese in Gympie Cemetery. Includes names and retains to China of bones. Pagan section, mixed aboriginal and Chinese, no headstones, modern memorial.
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1888 map showing a market garden run by Chinese where Gympie Memorial Park now is. Gympie location with a long history including gold mining, market gardening, frequent floods and public use. Also known as Pumpkin Flats.
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An unusual piling of stones reputedly of a Chinese market gardener. Assumed to be a “Chinese” style of burial but no evidence of this. Local history combines with wild assumptions. Grave site overgrown now. Combination of market garden and mining.
DetailsAn unusual piling of stones reputedly of a Chinese market gardener. Assumed to be a “Chinese” style of burial but no evidence of this. Local history combines with wild assumptions. Grave site overgrown now. Combination of market garden and mining.
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Early squatter run that employed Chinese shepherds. Lawless family Squatters and importation and treatment of Chinese shepherds under indenture. Letter reporting on shepherds.
DetailsSquatters and importation and treatment of Chinese shepherds under indenture. Letter reporting on shepherds Early squatter run that employed Chinese shepherds. Lawless family
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“Aboriginal people were not allowed to live in “Chinatown” due to restrictive legislation which prohibited them from cohabitating or fraternizing with a Chinese person. The further west and north-west that the community was, and the more isolated it was from authorities, the more likely it was that the …
DetailsMemorial to Aboriginal school inside Gayndah cemetery concerning a school once located across the road. Law family name possible indicator of Chinese heritage.
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Amoy shepherds graves and their descendants - Law / Ping At Gayndah not only were many people from Amoy employed as shepherds but many remained after the the expiration of their contracts to work not only as shepherds but to take up land and to establish businesses and families. As a result …
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Previous to the courthouse a boarding house operated for the local Chinese. (According to Cynthia Butlestone referring to rates records now in QLD State Archives. Early settlement history - locating temporary canvas or wooden structures.
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Chew family intermarriage Intermarriage - when does Chinese become Australian?
DetailsAs communities declined remaining members often erected a variety of general memorials. In more recent times this practice has been revived by both local communities and Chinese community members. In addition to the burial of community members it was the practice for Chinese people to also hold festive occasions such …
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Photograph in the Gayndah Museum with obituary on back. "There was a large Chinese population settled at Gayndah" https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1290242/ What do we know about Helen’s father and her family in the district? Perhaps Eurasian people in general? No mention of her parent …
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Tim Tie hung for murder. Born 1856 arrived Queensland 1876. "Tim Tie (1856 – 1886) was born in Amoy (Xiamen), China and arrived in Queensland in 1876. He worked as a cook in Dulbydilla, west of Roma. After a disagreement over a gambling debt, Tie was charged with Jimmy Ah Fook …
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Banner made in China and commissioned by Darwin based merchants as a gift to Strangman. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3268230 South Australian History Network https://www.flickr.com/photos/communityhistorysa/8740455631
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Beaudesert Historical Society 1986 memorial to Chinese shepherds and Aborigines killed. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226523319 - dollar and pounds paid https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/683007 - assault case Among Australia's pioneers : Chinese indentured pastoral workers on the Northern Frontier 1848 to c.1880 Slocomb …
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Return of bones to the villages of origin were common. While most who travelled overseas visited or retired to their home villages some never returned. For those who died in the destinations however, this was not necessarily the end of the wish to return. Death can come at any time …
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Rookwood Chinese Burials book held by the Rookwood Century Trust “Removed to China”, indicated exhumed plots. Rookwood Cemetery, Anglican Trust: Register of Burials in the Necropolis at Haslem’s Creek, under the Necropolis Act of 1867, 31 Victoria, no.14, ‘Chinese Section of General Cemetery’. Departed Friends, an extract from …
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Worn by Miss Nellie Sun Jue Yow in 1934 when she married Mr William Kee in Hong Kong. Nellie Kee was born in Brisbane in 1912. Her father, Mr Sun Jue Yow was from Canton, China and was one of the few Chinese people to settle in Brisbane after the …
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Bundaberg based merchant letter requesting oranges from Marlborough store. Hand-written letters such as the one above penned by Chas Que Hue to Brennan and Geraghty's provides evidence of his purchases as well as payment of his account. It is quite likely the letter was written by a third …
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Chinese burials in Australia are characterised by seperate sections, traditional practices and festivals, use of Chinese characters on headstones, exhumation and finally Christian conversion. Colonial Australia was strongly preoccupied with its Christian religious divisions and this was from the earliest period of white settlement reflected in the burial grounds and …
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As non-Christians Chinese burials were commonly placed in separate sections variously labelled Chinese Section, Aliens, Pagans or even Strangers. Usually placed to the side or back of a cemetery these sections are now often bare ground as early wooden markers deteriorated or burned in bushfires. Sometime even stone markers …
DetailsA distinctive feature of many though by no means all Chinese sections of many cemeteries is what is generally referred to as a burning tower. They have on occasions been erroneously referred as "Joss Houses" or even ovens. An unknown number have been destroyed but many remain. It is unclear …
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The Chinese burner is sited with the hillside rising behind it, regarded as an auspicious location, and is constructed of rendered brick and concrete set on a concrete base. It is approximately 2.230 metres high and comprises a 1.250 metre square base surmounted by a truncated pyramid topped …
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Presented to Father Wong by the Catholic community of Hong Kong. This style of head covering was developed by the Jesuit missionaries of China to conform to Chinese customs regarding head covering during religious ceremonies. Father Wong is a priest of the Tritarian church
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Temple bell from old Darwin temple destroyed in 1974 by Cyclone Tracy. Lit Sing Gong Temple Bell from the old Darwin Temple that was destroyed in 1974 during Cyclone Tracy. Made of cast iron in 1887. The Chinese reads: Hall of the Ranking Sages Wind is regulated and rain is …
DetailsSandalwood tablet 57.2 cm high / 170.2 cm long, gilded with Chinese characters black lacquer. ‘瀛海歸仁’ – benevolence returns from across the seas. Pictured is a large character inscription – 仁歸海瀛 – “Benevolence comes from across the seas” – gifted to an Adelaide committee in recognition of …
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A major contributor to the history of the Chinese overseas was Zhongshan County, known as Xiangshan or Heongshan until 1925. It was divided into nine localities and a census of 1910 reported the total population to be more than 820,000. Sydney, Hawaii and San Francisco were the most popular …
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Chung Kok (象角) Village hall listing numerous overseas donors. In 1913, when the community leaders of the then 11,000-strong village were erecting their hall in order to improve the health of their fellow residents, they were able to draw upon the resources of fellow villagers living and …
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Remains of jacket exhumed from east Perth cemetery "In a grave dating between 1888 and 1899, archaeologists uncovered what appeared to be a remarkably well preserved wool jacket. Exposure to the atmosphere and associated changes in climatic conditions put organic materials at significant risk of rapid deterioration. It is extremely …
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Elaborate banners for various purposes were a common feature of the Chinese community. The commissioning of heavily embroidered banners for a variety of purposes was a common feature of the Chinese Australian community. Typically, these banners were made in China and were given to individuals that the community felt had …
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Large silk banner, painting on reverse. "They [Chung Wah Association] commissioned this stunning embroidered silk banner in 1913 to commemorate the birthday of Confucius. It was designed by Yee Thong Who and made in Kwangtung Province, China. It is made of red silk and blue satin with hand embroidered gold …
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Collection of a former general store items, Ah Ming Store Broome Five generations of the Yu family in Broome. Yu Ming Noi established the Ah Ming store in Carnavon Street, now the Son Ming Chinese Restaurant. “Ah Ming Store was passed down to Georgie who carried on running the store …
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致公堂 (Zhì gōng táng) → literally “Hall for Serving the Public” or “Hall of Devotion to the Common Good.”
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Bathurst Masonic Altar This elaborately carved and painted ‘altar’ is one of the last remaining objects from the Bathurst branch of the Chinese Masonic Society. It is now to be found in a replica Chinese temple that is part of the Bathurst Goldfields display on Mount Panorama. The distinction between …
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Skis - Kiandra Kick-ins The National Historical Collection of the National Museum of Australia contains a pair of wooden skis. Dating from about 1880, they are thought to have been made in Kiandra in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales and were owned by the Yen family of …
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Figurine of Chinese god found near Darwin. In the Powerhouse Museum Sydney, is a copy of a figurine identified as Shou Lao (壽老) – the Chinese God of Longevity. Originally reported to have been found buried in the roots of a Banyan tree near Darwin, Northern Territory in 1879 it …
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"Traditional Chinese doctors constituted a highly visible presence all across Australia from the 1850s to the 1950s. As the effects of the Immigration Restriction Act (informally known as the White Australia policy) of 1901 were felt, their numbers fell in the 1950s." p.80 "Even in the context of …
DetailsIron 'boat' and wheel grinder for herbal medicine. A grinder for herbal medicine in National Parks and Wildlife Services Visitors Centre Hill End Museum where it is labelled a ‘rice grinder’. The fact that a common tool such as a herbal grinder appears in both Zhongshan County in south China …
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Justine Kong Sing - Self portrait Self portriat of artist Justine Kong Sing, a miniature portrait painter, was born in Nundle in the New England region of NSW in 1868, second of three daughters and third of the six children of Lee Kong Sing, from China, and Ellen, née Mann. Her …
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A general overview of marketing gardening as conducted by Chinese people in Australia "As mining became less profitable in the various colonies from the 1870s onwards, market gardening became the next most common Chinese occupation. At this time European Australians avoided market gardening which provided a niche for the many …
DetailsGardeners Licence with Chinese translation This bi-lingual licence issued to those wishing to operate market gardens in Victoria is representative of many things: – the high proportion of Chinese speakers that were market gardeners, or the difference between Victoria and NSW (the latter never issued licences for market gardening of …
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Chinese/English phrase book given by Quong Tart to one of his employees, Alf Hughes, and is now in the Ashfield Historical Society. This is one of a number of phrasebooks and Chinese/English dictionaries that were produced at various times in Australia and other places around the world where …
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Mandarin Jacket of Margaret Tart Margaret Tart was the English born wife of Quong Tart the prominent Chinese Australian merchant and well-known community member of the late 19th century. Margaret Tart obtained this symbol of membership of the Qing Dynasty’s official ranks as the wife of Quong Tart …
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Most "Chinese" people arriving in Australia identified and organised themselves on the basis of their villages and districts of origin. Organisations based on these were of major significance. One of the fundamentals of Chinese Australian history is that for much of the period the concept “Chinese” is as much a …
DetailsNum Pon Soon building Num Pon Soon was erected in 1860-61 by Lowe Kong Meng, merchant and prominent member of Melbourne's Chinese community. It served as a club house for the Sam-Yup Society, providing accommodation and support for Chinese immigrants from the districts of Nanhai, Punyu and …
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Memorial to Quong Tart in Ashfield near where he once lived in Gallop House. Typical contemporary report of Quong Tart's status as a "good Chinaman" among European Australians. Quong Tart's continued popularity to the neglect of other prominent Chinese Australians of the past such as Philip Lee Chun …
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This colourful scene of Sydney harbour from around 1820 finds itself depicted on a large punchbowl that was manufactured in the Chinese port city of Canton (Guangzhou 廣州). As a punchbowl this is one of many China made products produced specifically for export to Europe and so represents the …
DetailsFrom the 1850s to the present day Chinese temples, previously referred to as Joss Houses, have been part of the Australian landscape. From the earliest arrivals of people from China on the goldfields of Victoria and NSW places of worship were erected. Commonly and for many years known as Joss …
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"The first Temple on this site was built in 1887, the date on the original ceremonial bell. It was damaged by cyclones in 1897 and 1937 and partly damaged during bombing raids and looted by Australian soldiers during World War II. The stone lions, handcrafted in China, originally belonged …
DetailsChung Wah Association was established in 1909, and officially registered on July 12, 1910. Chung Wah is the largest Chinese non-profit organisation and an ethnic organisation with the longest history in Western Australia. The Association was formed to support the social welfare of its members, promote Chinese culture and …
DetailsPerth has had a small but vibrant Chinese community since the end of the 19th century. It's most unique feature being the Chung Wah Association established in 1910 which was the first to create a general association of open to all Chinese people rather than being based on district …
DetailsRight around Australia small stores were operated by Chinese shopkeepers, some evolving into multi-generational stores in rural locations from the late 19th till well into the 20th century. People of Chinese heritage spread across virtually every region of Australia, engaging in a wide range of occupations — from gold mining …
Details"Wing Hing Long was established in the late nineteenth century as one of a number of stores servicing the tin mining communities of the Tingha district. Tin was first found in the area in the early 1870s. The discovery created a boom in productivity and population which peaked in …
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KMT building Melbourne. Walter Burley Griffen designer.
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Founded by Sun Yat-Sen the Nationalist Party was strongly linked to the Overseas Chinese and dominated China government from 1911 until 1949. The Kuomintang or Nationalist Party was founded by Sun Yat-sen in the years before the 1911 revolution and was largely supported by Chinese people of the …
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DetailsThis handmade silk banner was presented in 1913 to William George Stretton, a retiring official of the Northern Territory administration. Like the gold medallion presented in 1869 to retired a gold commissioner (No.9) , the Chinese community was expressing its gratitude to a government official who they felt had treated …
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1882 Parliamentary vist and report https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160157820
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Remittances register of Bew Chip. “Lew” Bew Chip – kept an account over many years of the sending of money to his family in China. The register begins with his sending gold dust from 1865, the year of his arrival, and continues with the sending of gold sovereigns into the 1890s …
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Gao Yao community built "The temple is of historical, architectural, religious and social significance to a section of Sydney's Chinese community. The Yiu Ming is one of the oldest and largest Chinese Societies. For approximately 130 years, the temple and its community and environment have provided practical assistance and …
Details"The Sze Yup Temple is an item of State heritage significance as a rare and intact example of a Chinese temple in Australia. It is one of only two remaining places of worship for ethnic Chinese in New South Wales that predates the 1960s. It is one of four …
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Temple board, Tingha 神霄顯赫南天 “The glorious Divine Firmament of the Southern Heavens.” Australian Context In temples at Ballarat, Bendigo, and Cairns, inscriptions survive that honour 雷神 (Thunder God) and invoke protection. Plaques like this one would have been placed either above an altar, or …
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McCrossins Mill Museum has a large collection of Chinese temple objects, mostly taken from temples at Tingha
DetailsTemple board, Tingha 神霄顯赫南天 “The glorious Divine Firmament of the Southern Heavens.”
DetailsTin at Tingha: the history of Tingha, the greatest tin producing area of New South Wales, and the story of its people by Helen Brown. Armidale [N.S.W.] : H. Brown, 1982.
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More anti-Chinese leagues? Favoured indentured labour Considered a gap by NSW Amoy in south Palmer River - larger numbers Cooktown and Cairns majority Chinese popluation Sandi Robb thesis more artifacts? Proportionally more Chinese than NSW or Victoria walk from Darwin
DetailsBeechworth Hospital Banner, gift to the Chinese community The text reads "中華國" "The Chinese State". If you want my take on this expression, I'd say that, as with what is today the more favoured term, "中國" "The Central State", this expression is not actually the official …
DetailsBanner commissioned in China by Donald Fiddes, President of the Ovens District Hospital, Beechworth and presented to the Chinese community. "This banner was one of five banners gifted to the Beechworth Chinese community in recognition of their support of the Hospital and Benevolent Asylum in 1875, from the Carnival Committee …
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Report / Petition Âng Heng 洪興 (the petitioner) states that a few days ago Âng Tchin 紅珍 had spoken badly of him. Today, Âng Heng says that Khó͘ Hoe 許花 has harmed him; his work has not been recognized. On the eleventh day of the ninth month, I …
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The back of tomb has inscriptions in traditional Chinese characters about Choy Hing's roles in various company The Sun Co. Ltd 1912-1919 . 1919-1955 Chairman of the Board of various companies Heung On Investment Company. Chairman of the board Guangzhou the Sun Department Store. 1916, 1918, The Sun …
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Choy Hing's tomb in the family plot at the Christian Cemetery in Pokfulam, Hong Kong Choy Hing's photo was in the front of the tomb. At the back of the tomb, there was a description of Choy Hing's various roles, including chairman of the board of the …
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Choy Hing - manager Sun Department Store. Hing Choy (蔡興) (1869-1957) was born and grew up in Waisha village, Zhongshan. After attending schools in Hong Kong and Shanghai, he came to Australia in 1889 and founded Wing Sang & Co with Ma Ying Piu and several other fellows from Zhongshan …
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Mother, My heart rejoiced when hearing from your last letter, saying everyone in the family was safe and sound. Since I came to Australia in 10th year of the republic (1921), thirty years has gone. I made more than one thousand pounds over the years, and still have a deposit …
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In what is likely the first piece of Chinese Australian literature (broadly defined) a man accused of murder makes his defence. (See also No. 11 & No. 22 ) The accused, known as Ang, was from China, brought under contract through the port of Amoy (Xiamen). He was employed as a shepherd …
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Workers brought under indentures through the Treaty Port of Amoy from 1848 to 1852. "In 1847 the first group of indentured Chinese labourers arrived in the port of Sydney as part of what over the following six years was to become a systematic trade. The reactions within colonial society prompted …
DetailsNot really Chinatowns - SF model. Ing. Street of the Tang people, camps. The concept of “Chinatown” is a confused one, laden with mythology. For many people, the mental image derives from San Francisco—a unique case within the global Chinese diaspora, shaped by the particular circumstances of American urban development …
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The children born mostly of Chinese men and European women were called many things, most of them derogatory in the 19th and early 20th century as racial ideas asserted that the product of the mixing of races was nearly always bad. Eurasian is the most neutral term but half-caste …
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Members of the Chinese community frequently presented special gifts to retiring or moving members of officialdom in gratitude to perceived good treatment. Chinese people as a community needed to deal with officials and as in China it was common to present such officials with a kind of gift on their …
DetailsGift to Gold Commissioner This gold medal, now in the State Library of NSW , was given to a local Braidwood Magistrate, Charles De Boos, – who also acted as Gold Fields Warden – on his retirement in 1881. It was given by the local Chinese community and is inscribed in both Chinese …
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The CAHS was founded by Professor Henry Chan (University of Newcastle, NSW) in 2002. CAHS has been active in pursuing its goal of advancing the study of the history of Chinese in Australia by holding seminars, workshops, and conferences. Topics have included Chinese Australian family histories; the home villages in …
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A major contributor to the history of the Chinese overseas was Zhongshan (中山) County, known as Xiangshan or Heongshan (香山) until 1925. It was divided into nine localities and a census of 1910 reported the total population to be more than 820,000. Sydney, Hawaii and San Francisco …
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Chinese city - once part of the Straits Settlements. Source of remigtation to Australia
DetailsChinese Lion or Foo Dog. Pair placed at entrance of the Blue Mansion . Removed by descendent and now said to be in Melbourne. Whereabouts unknown.
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A dragon design surround to a European gravestone The Turvey family was a wealthy family whose family vault was destroyed in 1941 to allow for road expansion. It is at this time that the 1885 headstone of Eliza Turvey was moved to Wagga General Cemetery. Carved in a non-local …
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A restored temple building now run by the local government. The temple was one of seven Chinese temples built around this area to serve the large Chinese population on the goldfield. This particular temple was part of a large Chinese camp known as the Ironbark Camp, established in 1855. It …
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People from China arrived in Australia to earn money but often found themselves restricted as to what kind of work they could do. Labour questions involved Chinese people in colonial politics as the struggle for workers rights was partly fought around Chinese labour issues, with racist elements prominent. Even supporters …
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Turn your head to the emblems that are Foo-song’s bronze pillars, A dark miasma (about them) has not yet fully dissipated. Of kingfisher plumes from Yuet-sheung, there is no news, Of bright pearls from the South Sea, there has long been silence. A special bestowal created a …
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This silk cloth inscribed with fine calligraphy forms part the Kira Brown family collection. Its subscription indicates that it was written at the request of a certain 金滿 “Kum Moon” by the prominent and prolific late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Chinese intellectual 梁啟超 Liang Qichao …
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Membership booklet of Fung Gum Moon 方金滿 (Fang Jinman) from Ho Chung 濠涌 (Hao Yong) village for a support organisation for those originating in the south China district of Long Du (隆都). This membership booklet of Fung Kum Moon 方金滿 (Fang Jinman), 金滿 …
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Gayndah was a centre of early sheep properties in southern Queensland (then NSW) and where many Chinese men travelled via Amoy and then Marybourough to work as shepherds. As early as 1851 it was declared that: "Almost every station in the two districts of Wide Bay and Burnett is supplied …
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