China's 'Century of Humiliation' and Chinese- Australian History
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2019
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Fitzgerald, John
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Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University
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As much as anyone outside the Chinese-Australian community, Barry McGowan helped to
change the way Australians think and talk about Chinese-Australian history. Building on
the pioneering work of Janis Wilton and her Golden Threads project, Barry became a
fervent advocate for linking community history with archaeology and, as I learned from our
conversations, for encouraging a new generation of Chinese Australians to contribute their
family and community histories to the wider Australian story. He was particularly concerned
that the future of Chinese-Australian history should not be left to fly-in-fly-out tycoons from
China seeking to colonise Australian history with China©s historical grievances. We spoke
about this some months before his untimely death in September 2018.
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Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies
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