Golden Shadows on a White Land
Jun 29, 2013 16:06:14 GMT -5
Post by helen on Jun 29, 2013 16:06:14 GMT -5
Golden Shadows on a White Land
Anglo-Chinese families and white Australia
Chinese-European couples and their Anglo-Chinese families were at first a novel curiosity in the Australian colonies. In Sydney and Melbourne, and scattered throughout the camps and settlements that had grown up with the gold rushes, their presence was ‘discovered’ by journalists, church workers and the government
through surveys, inquiries and inspection visits. One journalist with the Bendigo Mercury
, for instance, spent a day in the Chinese camp at Bendigo with a government warden, several police constables and a Chinese interpreter in April 1859. After his visit, he reported that:
In the suburbs of the village there is a nice piece of ground, fenced off as a garden, but at present only containing the remains of some water melon vines. This belongs to a Chinaman, who has been coupled in the bonds of matrimony with a fair daughter of Erin, who has brought him in due course a daughter, in whose face the amalgamation of the two races is singularly blended.
ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/1412/4/04sections3%264.pdf
Anglo-Chinese families and white Australia
Chinese-European couples and their Anglo-Chinese families were at first a novel curiosity in the Australian colonies. In Sydney and Melbourne, and scattered throughout the camps and settlements that had grown up with the gold rushes, their presence was ‘discovered’ by journalists, church workers and the government
through surveys, inquiries and inspection visits. One journalist with the Bendigo Mercury
, for instance, spent a day in the Chinese camp at Bendigo with a government warden, several police constables and a Chinese interpreter in April 1859. After his visit, he reported that:
In the suburbs of the village there is a nice piece of ground, fenced off as a garden, but at present only containing the remains of some water melon vines. This belongs to a Chinaman, who has been coupled in the bonds of matrimony with a fair daughter of Erin, who has brought him in due course a daughter, in whose face the amalgamation of the two races is singularly blended.
ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/1412/4/04sections3%264.pdf