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Transnational ties

An article of mine has just come out in a new volume called Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, edited by Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott and published by ANU E Press....

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Ouyang Yu’s ‘Chinese in Australian Fiction’

It looks like Ouyang Yu’s work on literary representations of Chinese in Australian writing has made it into book form. Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888–1988 is published by Cambria Press, but...

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PM’s Prize for History 2008

John Fitzgerald’s Big White Lie has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Prize for History for 2008. First prize was jointly won by Tom Griffiths’ Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica,...

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NT History Grants 2009

Two Chinese projects are among those that have been awarded Northern Territory History Grants for 2009: Gordon Grimwade of Atherton: $3400 to research Chinese overland migration between the Northern...

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Eric Rolls’‘Citizens’ translated into Chinese

Eric Rolls’ history of the Chinese in Australia from 1888, Citizens: Flowers and the Wide Sea, has been translated into Chinese by Zhang Wei, a professor at Shandong University. The translation was...

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From Shekki to Sydney: An Autobiography by Stanley Hunt

A new book that might be of interest (via chinatown.com.au): In the late 19th and early 20th centuries large numbers of Chinese travelled to the USA, Australia and other parts of the world to prospect...

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Discussion on Stan Hunt’s book ‘From Shekki to Sydney’

I’ve already mentioned Stan Hunt’s book From Shekki to Sydney: An Autobiography. Here’s an opportunity to meet the author, editor and publisher. What: Discussion on Stan Hunt’s book From Shekki to...

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LJ Hooker’s Chinese roots

His name is known across the country, but until recently the true story of LJ Hooker’s early life was unknown, even to his own family. Now, after five years of research, writing and production, Natalia...

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From Canton with Courage: exhibition on the Chinese at Parramatta

The Parramatta Heritage Centre has a new exhibition, From Canton with Courage: Australian Chinese in Parramatta and Beyond, which is on now until 11 March 2012. The exhibition is a partnership between...

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Happy Valley: Patrick White’s impressions of an Anglo-Chinese family

Today’s Canberra Times features an article by David Marr about Australian novelist Patrick White’s forgotten first book, Happy Valley, ‘the thylacine of Australian literature’. It was written while...

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