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Chinese feasts and festivals in colonial Australia
Kevin Wong Hoy and Patricia Monaghan-Jamieson
Four or more generations of Chinese in Australia have produced distinctive Chinese Australian cultural practices. Recent Chinese immigrants from parts of Asia sometimes respond negatively or disparagingly to Australian versions of Chinese culture because they find them unfamiliar. However, some multi-generational Chinese Australians of full Chinese ancestry have never visited China, let alone set foot in the home villages of their ancestors. Even more Chinese Australians of some or full Chinese ancestry do not have access to village dialects and cannot speak Cantonese. Recent Chinese immigrants have helped to enrich, and in many ways re-ignite, 'Chineseness' in Australia. We should recognise, however, that the culture brought by new immigrants is different from the Chinese culture brought to Australia by the forbears of long-established Chinese Australians. Some aspects of their culture have little changed but other aspects have evolved into other forms.
Chinese feasts and festivals in colonial Australia
Kevin Wong Hoy and Patricia Monaghan-Jamieson
Four or more generations of Chinese in Australia have produced distinctive Chinese Australian cultural practices. Recent Chinese immigrants from parts of Asia sometimes respond negatively or disparagingly to Australian versions of Chinese culture because they find them unfamiliar. However, some multi-generational Chinese Australians of full Chinese ancestry have never visited China, let alone set foot in the home villages of their ancestors. Even more Chinese Australians of some or full Chinese ancestry do not have access to village dialects and cannot speak Cantonese. Recent Chinese immigrants have helped to enrich, and in many ways re-ignite, 'Chineseness' in Australia. We should recognise, however, that the culture brought by new immigrants is different from the Chinese culture brought to Australia by the forbears of long-established Chinese Australians. Some aspects of their culture have little changed but other aspects have evolved into other forms.