NEW BOOK - Rediscovered Past: China in Northern Australia, edited by Kevin Wong Hoy & Kevin Rains [24.06.2009]
Rediscovered Past: China in northern Australia
Kevin Wong Hoy & Kevin Rains, Editors
Rediscovered Past: China in northern Australia is a second, exciting publication by CHINA Inc. As its title suggests, this publication contributes to 'the important work of reporting on and disseminating the research into the involvement of early Chinese settlers with the development of northern Australia, largely during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries'.
CONTENTS:
Forward
Darryl Low ChoyChinese ginger growing in Queensland
Leonie RyderBeyond the coast : Chinese settler patterns of the western gulf region, north Queensland
Sandi Robb
Behind the wattle fence : the Chinese market gardeners of early Cooktown
Kevin RainsQueensland’s ‘Assassin of Gallipoli’ and other Chinese Australian heroes of World War One Alastair Kennedy
Commemorative stelae from Cooktown south : an ancient form of Chinese historical record adapted to Australian conditions
Kevin Wong HoyHeritage as living culture : the Lit Sung Goong collection of Cairns Mary Low, Julie Ramsbotham & Darryl Thomas
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