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Sojourning and settling: Locating Chinese-Australian history
Reeves, Keir Mountford, Ben
Reeves, Keir
Mountford, Ben
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During the past thirty years, our understanding of the history of Chinese Australians has been remade. Today, as a growing community of researchers delves into the archives, new insights into the political, economic and cultural dimensions of Chinese Australian experiences are emerging. The tired, one-dimensional depictions of the sojourning celestial digger have, at last, given way to a more complex view. Historians of the Chinese in Australia have been both instigators and beneficiaries of a move towards a more inclusive, multicultural approach to Australian history within the academy and beyond. They have played an important role in challenging the often peripheral status of specialised ethnic and multicultural studies, or ‘ethno-histories’, within Australian historiography. At the same time, their efforts to better understand the history of the Chinese in Australia have provided a ‘valuable counterpart’ to ongoing research into Australia's relations with Asia
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2011
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Australian Historical Studies
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42
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1
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111-125
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School of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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