Chinese Australians

Sophie Couchman, Ph.D. (2009), La Trobe University, is an Honorary Research Fellow at that university and Curator at the Chinese Museum in Melbourne. She has published on the history of Chinese in Australia, including co-editing After the Rush (2004).Kate Bagnall, Ph.D. (2007), University of Sydney, is a Research Associate in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific in Canberra. She writes on Chinese-Australian history, specialising in the history of women, children and the family.

• Editors' NoteList of ContributorsIntroductionChinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and ResistanceSophie CouchmanChapter OneThe Transformative Effect of Australian Experience on the Life of Ho A Mei, Hong Kong Community Leader and EntrepreneurPauline RuleChapter TwoChinese Political Values in Colonial Victoria: Lowe Kong Meng and the Legacy of the July 1880 ElectionPaul MacgregorChapter ThreeThe Chinese Empire Encounters the British Empire and Its ‘Colonial Dependencies’: Melbourne, 1887Marilyn LakeChapter FourLaw as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial CourtsMark FinnaneChapter FiveConfucian Heritage, Public Narratives and Community Politics of Chinese Australians at the Beginning of the 20th CenturyMei-fen KuoChapter SixThe Rise of Labor: A Chinese Australian Participates in Bendigo Local Politics at a Formative Moment, 1904–1905Amanda RasmussenChapter SevenAnglo-Chinese and the Politics of Overseas Travel from New South Wales, 1898 to 1925Kate BagnallChapter EightChinese Politics in Darwin: Interconnections between the Wah On Society and the Kuo Min TangJulia MartínezChapter NineChinese Australians and the Public Diplomacy Challenge for Australia in the 21st CenturyJohn FitzgeraldPostscriptBeyond ‘Two Worlds’Jen Tsen KwokIndex