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Pays attention to Chinese migration patterns, debates, social organisations, and their business and religious lives. This book shows that they had every right to be counted as Australians, even in White Australia.

Table of Contents
Preface; Introduction; 1 Belonging and exclusion; 2 Mateship and modernity; 3 Immigrant labour and goldfield fraternities; 4 Revolution, respectability and Chinese Masonry; 5 Chinese Australia at federation; 6 The Australasian Kuo Min Tang; 7 The Pacific shadow of White Australia; 8 Entrepreneurs, clubs and Christian values; 9 Being Australian; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.

Big White Lie Chinese Australians in White

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 10/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780868408705, 978-0868408705
      ISBN10: 0868408700
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Pays attention to Chinese migration patterns, debates, social organisations, and their business and religious lives. This book shows that they had every right to be counted as Australians, even in White Australia.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; Introduction; 1 Belonging and exclusion; 2 Mateship and modernity; 3 Immigrant labour and goldfield fraternities; 4 Revolution, respectability and Chinese Masonry; 5 Chinese Australia at federation; 6 The Australasian Kuo Min Tang; 7 The Pacific shadow of White Australia; 8 Entrepreneurs, clubs and Christian values; 9 Being Australian; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.

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