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Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia

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posted on 2023-05-22, 09:57 authored by Katherine BagnallKatherine Bagnall, Martinez, JT

This ground-breaking 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. Their remarkable stories are often inspiring and sometimes tragic and serve to demonstrate the complexities of navigating female lives in the face of racial politics and imposed categories of gender, culture, and class.

Historians of transnational Chinese migration have come to recognize Australia as a crucial site within the ‘Cantonese Pacific’, and this collection provides a new layer of gendered comparison, connecting women’s experiences in Australia with those in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.

History

Series

Crossing Seas

Pagination

296

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Hong Kong University Press

Place of publication

Hong Kong

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Understanding Asia’s past; Understanding Australia’s past

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