Talk presented by Dr Kate Bagnall at the 'New migration histories' seminar, University of Melbourne, 18 September 2013

1. The transnational
Chinese family in Australia
Kate Bagnall
@baibi
‘New migration histories’
Australian in the World seminar series
18 September 2013
University of Melbourne

2. Kerry Greenwood
Ruddy Gore
Allen & Unwin 2004
(first published McPhee Gribble 1995)
Lin Chung (Philippe Sung) and Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
www.fanpop.com/clubs/miss-fishers-murder-mysteries/images/35224788/title/lin-chung-phryne-photo

3. Neridah Newton
The Lambing Flat
University of Queensland Press
2003

4. Alison Wong
As the Earth Turns Silver
Picador
2009

5. Deborah O’Brien, Mr Chen’s Emporium and The Jade Widow
Bantam Australia 2012, 2013

6. The Bulletin, 14 April 1888
The Boomerang, 11 February 1888

7. Australasian Sketcher, 10 June 1876; The Graphic, 24 December 1887;
Illustrated Sydney News, 12 June 1880; Centennial Magazine, January 1889

8. Hannah Maria (nee Mason) and William Chi with
their baby, thought to be second son Albert
Scone, NSW, c. 1867
Courtesy Elaine Hetherington

9. Rockhampton Morning Bulletin (Weekend Magazine), 22 June 2013
Claire Faulkner, Conquest: An Inside Story – The Integration of a Colonial
Chinese-Australian Family Cluster
Self-published, 2013

10. •
Articles mentioning ‘half-caste’ Chinese in Australian newspapers, 1860 to 1920
• http://dhistory.org/querypic/7h/

11. Western Star and Roma Advertiser ,
16 March 1889, p. 3,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97510948
The Argus, 4 March 1909, p. 5,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10705873

12. Sam Hand’s boarding house at Home Rule, near Gulgong, NSW, 1872
State Library of NSW, a2822261

13. Quong Tart, Margaret Tart and their three eldest children in Hong Kong, 1894
Tart McEvoy papers, Society of Australian Genealogists 6/16/4

14. Quong Tart and Harry Bagnall at a cycling event in Sydney, c. 1897
Margaret Tart, The Life of Quong Tart or, How A Foreigner Succeeded in
A British Community, W. M. Maclardy, Sydney, 1911
Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 1897, p. 6, http://nla.gov.au/nla.newsarticle14108396

15. The south China coast from the Pearl River Delta to Amoy
The passenger shipping route from Australia to China, 1904
Eastern & Australian Steamship Company’s Illustrated Handbook to
the East, 1904, p. xvii

16. Six of the seven Yee Wing children who
travelled to Hong Kong from Sydney, 1921
NAA: SP42/1, 1921/10113

17. Ada, Dempsey and Glory Hong who travelled to China from Alice Springs, 1919
NAA: E752, 1919/67; E752, 1919/68; E752, 1919/69

18. Horace and Ernest Sung Yee who went to China from
Sydney, 1909
NAA: ST84/1, 1909/20/21-30

19. Unknown family group, possibly at Inverell, NSW
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/45774

20. kate.bagnall@gmail.com
chineseaustralia.org
Annie Gan, Teddy Chung Ah Gan and their eldest four
children in Melbourne before departing for Hong Kong,
1917
NAA: B13, 1933/22224