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South Flows the Pearl : Chinese Australian Voices.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yen, Mavis Gock.
- Series:
- China and the West in the Modern World
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Australia--History--Sources.
- Chinese.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (403 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1850s, as told in their own words. This unique book was written by an insider. Mavis Yen was born in Perth in 1916, the daughter of a Chinese father and an Australian mother. She lived in both countries and understood what it meant to navigate two worlds, to live through war and revolution, and to experience racial discrimination. In the 1980s she began interviewing elderly Chinese Australians, recording hours of conversations. Her intimate understanding of their languages and life experiences encouraged them to share their stories. Published here for the first time, they will change how you think about Australian history.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half title page
- Title page
- Contents
- About the Author: Mavis Gock Yen
- Foreword
- Introduction
- She knew the people
- Beyond White Australia
- Between worlds
- Rules, rights and restrictions
- South flows the Pearl
- Departures
- Preface
- Maps
- A Note on the Text: Names, Places, Facts and Figures
- 'In a Nutshell'
- Thelma
- Leslie
- Postscript
- Memories of Sydney's Chinatown
- Chinatown
- School days
- The House of Five Sons
- Cemetery day
- My godfather
- The customers
- The matchmakers
- First job
- Third-Generation Migrant
- My home
- Australia
- Working in Sydney
- Returning to China
- My life in Australia
- A Childhood in North Queensland
- Where did I come from?
- Babinda
- Pawngilly
- Chung Shan County
- First impressions
- Village life
- Shekki
- Canton
- Two Worlds
- The Gock clan
- The new gold mountain
- Father's arrival in Australia
- Marriage and family
- Honeymoon in Heung Shan
- Growing up in Perth
- Dad's business
- War and school
- Planning to leave
- The Great Adventure
- Steam boat to China
- Singapore
- Hong Kong
- Shanghai
- 30 May 1925
- Tragedy
- Schooling in Shanghai
- 'There's No Gold'
- Lung Du commuters
- Lung Du dialect
- Village education
- Father-in-law
- Work
- The Ancestral Home
- Journey to Chuk Sau Yuen (竹秀園)
- Village history
- Law and order
- A village wedding
- Gunslinger
- Travels with my father
- 'Unite to Fight the Japanese'
- Last of the warlords
- Mobilising
- Training
- Army life
- On operations
- The Fortune Teller
- Working at Wing On
- Fortune teller
- Return to Australia
- Working in the outback
- Army service
- The voyage home
- Cairns
- Mossman
- Kuranda
- Cane cutting
- Wirth's Circus.
- Chinese Youth League
- Life as a wharfie
- Reflections on China and Australia today
- Wartime
- Chinatown during the war
- Social life
- Looking after Dad
- Love and marriage
- The Lineage
- Escape from Hong Kong
- Macao
- Smuggling
- Family ties
- Return to Hong Kong
- Sydney
- Postwar
- Mixed business
- Job hunting
- Fish and chip shop
- Family life
- Sailing club
- Full-time work
- Tea lady
- Mum
- Pioneers in Western Australia
- Early life
- Toishan
- Broome
- Second World War
- Perth
- The Lee brothers
- Reflections
- Don and the Family
- Planning the Hong Kong trip
- Distant relations
- Meeting Don's family
- Raising children
- St Vincent's Hospital
- Chinese food
- Helping others
- Chinese cliques
- Colour images
- Gold Rush Heritage
- My parents
- Beliefs
- Home cooking
- Cars
- School
- Local business
- Employment
- Race relations
- Roy Stewart Lee
- Depression
- Returned soldiers
- Dad's brothers
- Wellington
- Funeral traditions
- Deaths in the family
- Wu Hop Trading Company
- Marriage
- Speaking Chinese
- China
- Success in Australia
- 'We Grew Up in the Bush'
- My family
- Camooweal
- Leaving home
- Adelaide
- Melbourne
- Hobart
- Dad's return to China
- Working with my brothers
- Forced marriages
- Family today
- Trip to Hong Kong and China
- From a Chinese Garden
- Japanese occupation
- Tam Gong temple
- Travelling to Australia
- Market gardening
- After school duties
- Penrith
- New school
- On my own
- The Chinese Youth League
- Visit to Macao
- Business opportunities
- Educating our children
- Multiculturalism
- The Northern Territory Story
- Grandparents
- George and Lorna.
- Marriage and family
- 'I Was the Lucky One'
- Family business
- Childhood experiences in China
- Married life in Darwin
- Mother-in-law
- Chinese-Australian relations
- Religion
- Jobs, war and Sydney
- Family
- Younger generation
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Villages and Locations
- Temples and Associations
- People and Names
- Businesses and Organisations
- History
- Miscellaneous
- Index
- Copyright information
- Follow us on Social Media.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Yen, Mavis Gock South Flows the Pearl
- ISBN:
- 9781743327234
- 1743327234
- 9781743328392
- 1743328397
- OCLC:
- 1292356742
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