'Uncovering the history of Chinese Australian families'

My presentation for National Family History Month at Libraries Tasmania is now available to watch in YouTube!

https://youtu.be/qcw88O04JTw

#ChinOzHist #FamilyHistory #genealogy #histodons

NSW Minister for Heritage Penny Sharpe has unveiled a Blue Plaque in Ashfield, recognising the life of historical figure Quong Tart and celebrating his political advocacy and charity work in the 1800s https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/blue-plaque-commemorating-the-life-of-quong-tart-unveiled-in-sydney #ChinOzHist

I will be presenting on 'Uncovering the stories of Chinese Australian families' at Libraries Tasmania on 8 August 2023 (in-person and webinar) https://libraries.tas.gov.au/event/nfhm-uncovering-the-stories-of-chinese-australian-families/ #ChinOzHist #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Libraries Tasmania has a great line-up of events for #FamilyHistoryMonth in August – including webinars for those not in Tasmania. I'll be speaking on 8 August about uncovering the histories of Chinese Australian families. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/news/national-family-history-month-2023/ #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #ChinOzHist

‘Activism on the Goldfields’ – episode 10 of the podcast series ‘Look History in the Eye’ – hears from historian Anna Kyi who explains the importance of 19th-century Victorian Chinese petitions to understand the Australian Chinese immigrant experience on the goldfields. https://prov.vic.gov.au/podcast-episode-10-activism-goldfields #histodons #ChinOzHist

Three interesting papers on doing oral history with migrants & refugees, including #ChinOzHist | Migrants & Refugees – OHA Biennial Conference 2022 – 14 October 2022 | https://youtu.be/ldDtTixsDXk #histodons

I'm nearing the point in my current project where my New Zealand Chinese naturalization database is 'finished', and today I've been tidying up my location data and adding in provinces. Here’s my tally of Chinese naturalizations in NZ to 1908 by province (total 500): Otago 174, Wellington 155, Westland 63, Auckland 50, Taranaki 15, Canterbury 14, Nelson 13, Hawke's Bay 12, Marlborough 6! #ChinOzHist #Histodons

New post at my blog, The Tiger’s Mouth – Maisie Fook: ‘A Chinese, born and living in White Australia’ https://chineseaustralia.org/maisie-fook/ #ChinOzHist #histodons #OzHist

A new little post from me at my Chinese Australasian history blog, The Tiger's Mouth: 'A naturalized Chinese Tasmanian: Ah One from Hobart'

https://chineseaustralia.org/ah-one-from-hobart/

#ChinOzHist #OzHist #AustralianHistory #histodons

New Zealand: ‘Poll tax apology delivered in language of those impacted[Cantonese], 21 years after first apology’ https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131209772/poll-tax-apology-delivered-in-language-of-those-impacted-21-years-after-first-apology #chinozhist

25 years after I first stumbled upon the story of Charlie Allen and his mum Frances in the National Archives in Sydney, I've now made contact with his great grandson!

With little memory of Charlie remaining in the family, it's lovely to know that my research has finally found its way to them.

Charlie's letters home to his mother, written from Guangdong in the early 1910s, are a rare first-person account of the experiences of an Anglo-Chinese Australian child living in China at that time.

I've published the story as: ‘Writing home from China: Charles Allen’s transnational childhood’, in Paul Longley Arthur (ed.), Migrant Lives: Australian Culture, Society and Identity, Anthem Press, London, 2018.

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So @baibi are we establishing #chinozhist on #mastodon?