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Post by richardn23 on Aug 21, 2012 21:28:33 GMT -5
Two issues of this online journal have been produced, in May 2005 and October 2006. The journal's home page states "JCA is an online journal dedicated to providing access to research and resources on the history and culture of Chinese people in Australia.
It is a place for family and community researchers, historians and students to share their ideas and questions. We invite readers to contribute to the journal by submitting stories, articles or reviews and by responding to an article through the Feedback page." Sadly there have been no issues since 2006. Home page: www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/jca/Richard |
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Post by helen on Dec 7, 2012 14:33:11 GMT -5
Repatriated to China June 1914: How fifty-eight elderly Chinese men found their way home from Darwin Kate Bagnall Many people living in southern China today have connections to the regions long history of overseas migration. During visits to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and the counties of the Pearl River Delta, I have had the chance to hear stories of these connections. Some tell of fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers who ventured overseas and successfully returned again they were able to send money home, to build new houses for their families and to provide a better future for their wives and children. Other stories, perhaps more hidden than the successes, tell sadder tales. One young engineer, now living with her husband in Beijing, told me of how her great-grandfather had spent his youth in Australia before returning to China, but that her family never spoke of it because his experience had been so bitter. A late middle-aged man, still living in the rural village where he was born, spoke of how his father had worked overseas as a laundryman and returned home with enough money to begin building a new home for his family, only to die before the house was finished and before his only son was born. A college-educated tour guide told of how his grandmothers father had left his wife and infant daughter while he went overseas to work, never to return home and never to contact them again. They never knew his fate or even which country he had gone to. The Tung Wah Times reports the departure of the elderly Chinese men on the SS Taiyuan: 4 July 1914 Arrangements were made for the departure of the elderly Chinese men and on 23 June 1914, the SS Taiyuan carried forty-three of them back to Hong Kong. Their departure was not remarked on in the local Darwin press all that was noted was that the SS Taiyuan had left Darwin for Hong Kong on 23 June, with 47 Chinese and 2 Japanese on board.[12] On 4 July, the Tung Wah Times, however, briefly reported on their leaving Australia. It noted that the government had paid for their passage and that it had also already hired people to demolish the houses the elderly men had left www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/jca/issue01/13Bagnall.html |
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Post by amy on Oct 29, 2014 9:03:37 GMT -5
I just came across this site for 'coloured migrants' in Australia which includes the significant Chinese migration: colouredcolonials.yolasite.com/welcome.phpIt appears that they will be launching a searchable genealogy website next year with photographs. Here is the text from this page: This research site about coloured migrants in Australia has a companion genealogy site: If your Asian ancestor worked in Victoria between 1860 and 1959 and applied to return after visiting their homeland, go to www.ColouredColonialsGenealogy.com It opens Chinese New Year February 19, 2015. NSW Asian migrants section of this national website will open on CYN 2016 and Queensland and Northern Territory on CYN 2017. You'll be able to view a front thumbnail portrait and details for free. A paid subscription is available for more photos and details. To see how it will work, hover your mouse over these sample portraits...  |
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Post by helen on Feb 3, 2018 16:55:56 GMT -5
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