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This blog is written by Kate Bagnall (@baibi on Twitter). I’ve been interested in Australia’s historical connections to China since I first lived there more than ten years ago – when, by coincidence, I found myself living in the overseas Chinese homelands of the Pearl River Delta.
A PhD in Chinese Australian history, a stint at the beautiful Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, and an ongoing attempt to grasp not one but three Chinese languages (Mandarin, Cantonese and See Yup/Taishanhua) has followed.
Here’s what’s currently keeping me busy:
* hacking a research project called ‘Invisible Australians: Living under the White Australia Policy’ with Tim Sherratt
* compiling a database of Chinese marriages and births in New South Wales to 1918, with the view of putting it online some time in the future
* putting together an Omeka-based website about the travels of Anglo-Chinese Australians, as part of the Invisible Australians project
* researching for a book on the 1908 High Court case Potter v. Minahan, which includes finding out about the history of the Chinese at Indigo, Victoria and the connections between Shiquli village, Xinhui and Victoria
* writing an essay that revisits the thingy Gooey case, 100 years after the case and 50 years after AT Yarwood published his paper about it
* co-convening the 2011 Dragon Tails conference to be held at the Chinese Museum, Melbourne
* revising a short biographical essay I wrote for my daughter about her paternal great-grandmother
This blog is written by Kate Bagnall (@baibi on Twitter). I’ve been interested in Australia’s historical connections to China since I first lived there more than ten years ago – when, by coincidence, I found myself living in the overseas Chinese homelands of the Pearl River Delta.
A PhD in Chinese Australian history, a stint at the beautiful Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, and an ongoing attempt to grasp not one but three Chinese languages (Mandarin, Cantonese and See Yup/Taishanhua) has followed.
Here’s what’s currently keeping me busy:
* hacking a research project called ‘Invisible Australians: Living under the White Australia Policy’ with Tim Sherratt
* compiling a database of Chinese marriages and births in New South Wales to 1918, with the view of putting it online some time in the future
* putting together an Omeka-based website about the travels of Anglo-Chinese Australians, as part of the Invisible Australians project
* researching for a book on the 1908 High Court case Potter v. Minahan, which includes finding out about the history of the Chinese at Indigo, Victoria and the connections between Shiquli village, Xinhui and Victoria
* writing an essay that revisits the thingy Gooey case, 100 years after the case and 50 years after AT Yarwood published his paper about it
* co-convening the 2011 Dragon Tails conference to be held at the Chinese Museum, Melbourne
* revising a short biographical essay I wrote for my daughter about her paternal great-grandmother