Locating Chinese women : historical mobility between China and Australia / edited by Kate Bagnall and Julia T. Martínez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bagnall, Kate, editor.

Martínez, Julia, editor.

Series:

Crossing seas.

Hong Kong scholarship online.

Crossing seas

Hong Kong scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--Australia--Social conditions--20th century.

Women immigrants.

Chinese--Australia--Social conditions--20th century.

Chinese.

Women--Australia--Social conditions--20th century.

Women.

Australia--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Australia.

Australia--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 vol. 277 p.) : ill., carte, couv. ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This edited collection draws together Australian historical scholarship on Chinese women, their gendered migrations, and their mobile lives between China and Australia. It considers different aspects of women's lives, both as individuals and as the wives and daughters of immigrant men. While the number of Chinese women in Australia before 1950 was relatively small, their presence was significant and often subject to public scrutiny. Moving beyond traditional representations of women as hidden and silent, this book demonstrates that Chinese Australian women in the twentieth century expressed themselves in the public eye, whether through writings, in photographs, or in political and cultural life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Romanization

1. Introduction: Chinese Australian Women, Migration, and Mobility

Part One: Gendering Chinese Australian Histories

2. Reading Gender in Early Chinese Australian Newspapers

3. Chinese Australian Brides, Photography, and the White Wedding

4. The Emergence of Chinese Businesswomen in Darwin, 1910–1940

5. Chinese Australian Women’s Experiences of Migration and Mobility in White Australia

Part Two: Women’s Lives in China and Australia

6. Exception or Example? Ham Hop’s Challenge to White Australia

7. Missing Ruby

8. Alice Lim Kee: Journalist, Actor, Broadcaster, and Goodwill Ambassador

9. Mary Chong and Gwen Fong: University-Educated Chinese Australian Women

10. Daisy Kwok’s Shanghai: Life in China before and after 1949

Further Reading

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 23, 2021).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789888268658

9888268651

OCLC:

1264651118