Chinese Australians : Politics, Engagement and Resistance.

Intro -- Contents -- Editors' Note -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Transformative Effect of Australian Experience on the Life of Ho A Mei, Hong Kong Community Leader and Entrepreneur -- Chapter 2 Chinese Political Values in Colonial Victoria: Lowe Kong Meng and the Legacy of the July 1880 Election -- Chapter 3 The Chinese Empire Encounters the British Empire and Its 'Colonial Dependencies': Melbourne, 1887 -- Chapter 4 Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts -- Chapter 5 Confucian Heritage, Public Narratives and Community Politics of Chinese Australians at the Beginning of the 20th Century -- Chapter 6 The Rise of Labor: A Chinese Australian Participates in Bendigo Local Politics at a Formative Moment, 1904-1905 -- Chapter 7 Anglo-Chinese and the Politics of Overseas Travel from New South Wales, 1898 to 1925 -- Chapter 8 Chinese Politics in Darwin: Interconnections between the Wah On Society and the Kuo Min Tang -- Chapter 9 Chinese Australians and the Public Diplomacy Challenge for Australia in the 21st Century -- Postscript: Beyond 'Two Worlds' -- Index.

In Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance key scholars of Chinese-Australian history explore how Chinese Australians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced the communities in which they lived on a civic or individual level.

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