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Members’ Newsletter – January 2016 澳洲華人歷史協會會訊
http://chineseaustralianhistory.org
PO Box K556, Haymarket NSW 1240 Email: [email protected] Edited by: Michael Williams
Happy New Year to Members and Friends
Our next big event -‐ Mid-‐autumn festival
Poon Choy
Sunday February 21st -‐ 12pm to 2.30pm
Hingara Restaurant Chinatown – 82 Dixon Street
$28 per person
All members & friends welcome
Over the rest of the Year 2016 lectures series (3rd Saturday)
1. The Dictation Test (April 16th) 2. Chinese of Bathurst (June 18th) 3. Cabinet Makers (August 20th) 4. Clans/district associations
History Week - September (Theme - Neighbours)
5. Chinese Bushranger (November 19th)
All presentations held at the
Mechanics School of Arts - 280 Pitt St. Sydney
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What’s new on the website?
Post-‐1949 history The CAHS website is continuing work-‐in-‐progress and recently we have added a series on the history of Chinese-‐Australia after 1949.
http://chineseaustralianhistory.org/history-‐post-‐1949/ The six-‐part division here does not claim to be a comprehensive history of Chinese Australia after 1949. Rather it is a very preliminary overview that seeks to begin to tease out some of the themes and influences on that history. It is hoped that its very limitations and omissions will inspire further work in a history that remains largely unwritten.
Comments, suggestions, submissions & corrections welcome
James Chung Gon, like so many others, began his life in Tasmania on the tin fields but soon moved into supplying vegetables. In this he became very wealthy with he and his family supplying at their peak most of the vegetables of Launceston. The Chung Gon family became very prominent in Launceston and Tasmania and were often in the social pages of the newspapers, and in at least one case their daughters wedding included the Tasmanian Premier as guest. Like many market gardens operated by men from China who were not eligible to be citizens James Chung Gon was able to bring in labour from China to work his gardens on the grounds that working in a Chinese market garden was a special case under the White Australia policy. By the 1960s the Chung Gon gardens employed some 20 people, most of them European-‐Australians. Nevertheless, in 1962 Doris Chung Gon, a daughter of James, also tried to bring in some workers from Hong Kong. However, as an Australian-‐born person this was not possible.
Site of former market garden – Launceston Chungon Crescent is located on a steep hill in the suburbs of Launceston and is named after the Chung Gon market gardens that were the main one of three, plus at least two vegetable shops also owned by James Chung Gon from the 1920s through to the 1960s.
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Annual General Meeting Saturday 16th January 2016
2pm 82 Enmore Rd Newtown
Please note this is a ‘catch-up’ AGM to put our financial years in order and
another AGM will be held later in the year. (Agenda to be distributed nearer the date)
All members are welcome and light refreshments will be served.
Please contact Anna Lee to let us know numbers and for nominations for the committee
phone 9519 7436 BH or
0412 334 398 anytime
From the racial antagonism of the early gold rush days and beyond the years of the White Australia Policy, Chinese-Australians have made great contributions to multicultural Australia. “Dragon Footprints” will reveal the hardships, courage, hopes and achievements of six outstanding Chinese-‐Australians: Jackie Chan, international movie star; Gronya Somerville; Australian badminton player; Gloria Zou, Australia China Young Ambassador; Lanwei Gong, ICFF President; Warren Lam, Chairman of Australia Xinhui Chinese Cultural Centre and Philip Chin Quan, Chinese Australian returned serviceman.
http://asiapacificinsight.com/index.php/archives/2313
Dragon Footprints The Asia Media Centre has launched its documentary series “Dragon Footprints” which tells the story of remarkable Australians.
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Chinese Women’s Association
Chinese New Year talk
Chinese-‐Australian history in 88 objects
presented by Dr Michael Williams
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Date: Saturday 13th February 2016
Venue: Sydney Mechanics School of Arts Level 1
Mitchell Theatre 280 Pitt St Sydney
Time: 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Chinese Heritage in Northern Australia (CHINA Inc)
Call for Papers – deadline Jan 15th Northern Links: Transplantation or Transnationalism?
The Sixth “no fuss” Conference 27-‐28 February 2016
Townsville, North Queensland
Proposed papers may be broad based but should reflect on Chinese in northern Australia and the conference series theme “Northern Links: Transplantation or Transnationalism?” This conference aims to explore themes of settling vs sojourning; transplantation vs transnationalism across the diverse northern landscape of Australia with an underlying aim to demonstrate connections between China, northern Australia, Asia Pacific and the nation.
If you would like to present a paper or attend the conference, please email an expression of interest to: [email protected]
