Chinese southern diaspora studies_Issue 6 (for Volume 6)
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Volume
6
Number
6
Issue Date
2013
Journal Title
Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies
Journal ISSN
1834-609X
Journal Volume
Chinese southern diaspora studies_Volume 6
Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies (6)
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Editor's Introduction [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 6, 2013]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2013) Bagnall, Kate; Couchman, Sophie; Bagnall, Kate; Couchman, Sophie
編者的話 = Editors’ Introduction [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 6, 2013]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2013) Bagnall, Kate; Couchman, Sophie; Bagnall, Kate; Couchman, Sophie
Landscapes of Memory and Forgetting: Indigo and Shek Quey Lee
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2013) Bagnall, Kate; Bagnall, Kate; Couchman, Sophie
In this illustrated essay I explore the intertwined histories of two rural settlements – Indigo in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, and Shek Quey Lee in Xinhui county, Guangdong, China – to consider how the rich story of Chinese migration and settlement in Australia has been remembered and forgotten, both in China and Australia. With the growth in interest in the history and heritage of the Chinese in Australia over the past twenty years, we can no longer say that it is a “forgotten” history, yet there are still challenges to researching and telling it. One of these is for Chinese Australian history to be seen as integral to the broader narrative of Australia’s past. Another is being able to connect the Chinese and Australian parts of the story, to broaden the scope of our research beyond national boundaries to create a truly shared history. This essay suggests that drawing on the small stories of individual people is one way to bring together the connections across time and place, and between landscapes and people often thought of as distant and fundamentally different.
Webs of Association: Examining the Overseas Chinese Social Landscape of Early Cooktown
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2013) Rains, Kevin; Bagnall, Kate; Couchman, Sophie
Many studies of overseas Chinese have regarded ethnic or cultural identity as being the
overarching principle structuring how overseas Chinese communities organised and defined
themselves and how they were perceived and treated by outsiders. Overseas Chinese communities
have been regarded as homogenous, inward-looking and impermeable. However, recent research,
particularly in the realm of social and family history, points to more complex and diverse
relationships. This paper, which is based on an historical archaeology doctoral thesis, proposes a
different model based on social agency and network theory. Using the case study of Cooktown in
Far North Queensland, where a large and thriving overseas Chinese community existed in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it shows how individual people, Chinese and non-Chinese
alike, exercised their agency to create their own social worlds. These worlds consisted of networks
or webs of association through which people obtained their material needs, accrued and exerted
social power and continually defined their social identity. Ethnicity was only one among a range of
influences on the nature of these networks; others included kinship, class, gender, political
allegiance and business alliances. The networks fragmented ethnic groups as well as crossed
ethnic boundaries, as Cooktown©s rugged frontier environment fostered some very close
connections of mutual support between Chinese and non-Chinese. Collectively these networks built
a dynamic, multi-layered and nuanced social landscape
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