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Item Open Access Getting Chinese Gold off the Victorian Goldfields(Australian National University, 2019) Guoth, Nick; Macgregor, PaulThe discovery of gold in Victoria, Australia, in 1851 drew prospective miners from throughout the world to try their luck at the new diggings. One group were Chinese who came mostly from the villages of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong. The Chinese in Victoria were both a transient and resident population. For the Chinese miners, the gold they won was either returned by them to their villages in China, for them by others to the same destinations, or used to pay for goods on the goldfields. Much of these goods were imported from China via Hong Kong, so payment for them was another way in which Chinese-won gold in Victoria was remitted to China. This article investigates the mechanisms for the flow of gold by and for the Chinese in Australia. From the Chinese diggings to Melbourne and thence to China, the transmission of gold involved a complex process that included numerous individuals and firms, both Chinese and European. The article interprets a combination of banking and government records, shipping and commercial intelligence in newspapers, and archives relating to various Chinese and European merchants, to map this movement of gold found by the Chinese on the goldfields.Item Open Access A Unique Event: Charles de Boos and the Braidwood Chinese Gold Miners(Australian National University, 2015) Crabb, PeterItem Open Access Transnational Lives: Colonial Immigration Restrictions and the White Australia Policy in the Riverina District of New South Wales, 1860-1960(Australian National University, 2013) McGowan, BarryIn Australia the historical debate on the effects of immigration restrictions on the Chinese people has focused largely on the White Australia Policy. By contrast, in this paper I focus on the relatively neglected topic of intercolonial migration and compare the impact of the colonial immigration restrictions of the 1880s and the White Australia Policy, using as an example the Riverina district of New South Wales. Many Chinese people were severely disadvantaged by the colonial immigration restrictions, particularly if they had strong commercial links on both sides of the NSW�Victorian border or needed special assistance from their compatriots. The local reaction in the Riverina to the tightening of anti-Chinese restrictions in 1888 in particular sits at odds with the popular impression of unrelenting animosity towards Chinese people in the pre-Federation period. Many white residents of the Riverina viewed the legislation with disdain and pleaded the case for change. Federation solved the problem of intercolonial migration, but it created many other difficulties for Chinese residents and this time the Riverina press was silent. With the same resilience and initiative of their forebears, however, many Chinese worked around these new impositions. Influence, money and friendship were, however, critical and those less well connected or affluent were at a much greater disadvantage. Intimidation from officials with its attendant risks of resentment and bitterness may have been of little concern in the colonial and post-colonial period, but today it should be, for the stakes are much higher.Item Open Access Editor's Note (Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, no.3, 2009)(2009) Li, TanaThe 2009 volume of Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies focuses on Chinese in the Bahasa-speaking world of the Indonesian archipelago and Malay Peninsula, past and present.Item Open Access Education, Language Use and Shifting Identities among Ethnic Chinese Indonesians(Australian National University, 2009) Handoko, FranciscaItem Open Access From Fraternities to Families: The Evolution of Chinese Life in the Braidwood District of New South Wales (NSW), 1850s-1900s(Australian National University, 2008) McGowan, BarryItem Open Access An Immigrant Chinese Sea God in Australia: The Chinese Background to Sydney's Retreat Street Temple(Australian National University, 2008) Penny, Benjamin D CItem Open Access Charlie Wong Hing and the Son He Never Met(Australian National University, 2013) Li, Tana; McGowan, BarryItem Open Access An Example of Usury Within the Chinese Community: an Account from Wagga Wagga, 1923-1927(Australian National University, 2013) McGowan, Barry; Li, TanaItem Open Access An Early 1882 Heaven and Earth Society Letter from Cambodia(Australian National University, 2010) Cooke, Nola J; Li, TanaItem Open Access The Big Five Hokkien Families in Penang, 1830s-1890s(Australian National University, 2007) Wong, Yee-TuanItem Open Access In Search of Chinese Rice Merchants in French Cochinchina(Australian National University, 2010) Li, TanaItem Open Access King Norodom's revenue farming system in later nineteenth-century Cambodia and his Chinese revenue farmers (1860-1891)(Australian National University, 2009-04-30T02:06:17Z) Cooke, Nola JFrom the later 1860s to 1891, King Norodom reorganised the Cambodian fiscal system along increasingly central lines, transforming almost all existing taxes and duties into royal revenue farms, including rights previously not vested in the throne. Norodom succeeded by exploiting weaknesses in the early French protectorate regime, and because diasporic Chinese invested their capital and labour in operating his fiscal system. If some Chinese businessmen accrued great wealth from these activities, the Chinese community of Cambodia generally paid a high price by forfeiting their age-old easy relations with ordinary Khmer people for whom they increasingly became the ugly public face of the royal revenue farming system.Item Open Access Canton, Cancao, and Cochinchina: new data and new light on eighteenth-century Canton and the Nanyang(Australian National University, 2009-04-30T02:00:18Z) Li, Tana; Van Dyke, Paul A