Please see the PDF version of this text here for footnotes. Melbourne Journal 墨尔本纪事 This is my day-by-day chronicle from the first half of 1999 to the middle of 2005.You can consider it as my diary for these years. During this period, I was seconded from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (later renamed…
Sinophone Australia
This project involves the identification and translation of texts from the beginning of the Victorian gold rush to the establishment of relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China in 1972. Recognising the importance of providing these sources for Anglophone Australians, we will continue to publish translations related to this history and make historical sources accessible on the Internet.
Examining a variety of Chinese sources for his book Big White Lie, John Fitzgerald found that: ‘These Chinese-language sources offer, I would suggest, a new perspective on Australian history’ (2007, x). Australian history is multilingual and multifaceted, and Fitzgerald’s suggestion only touches on the various perspectives that can be uncovered when silenced works are brought to light.
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Australia and Overseas Chinese in Australia 澳洲及旅澳华侨
Please see the PDF version of this text here for footnotes. Australia and Overseas Chinese in Australia [Part. 2 Overseas Chinese in Australia] by: Chen Zhifu Shanghai: Shangwu yinshuguan, 1946. 澳洲及旅澳华侨 [下编 旅澳华侨] 作者：陈直夫 商务印书馆, 1946. Chapter 1 Chinese Migration to Australia and the White Australia Policy 第I章 華人向澳之移殖與白澳政策之產生 According to legend, it…
History of the Building of the Australian Nation 澳洲建国史 – Chapter 1 第一章
Chapter 1: The Discovery of Australian Continent 第一章：澳洲大陸的發現 Translated by Sun Siyuan & Joshua Peace (Section 1-5); Qing Wu & Rongrong Zhang (Section 8&9) Please see the PDF version of this text here for footnotes. Section 1 – Speculation of a Southern Continent in the Middle Ages 第一节 – 中世紀南方大陸之揣測 After geographers of the Middle Ages,…
History of the Building of the Australian Nation 澳洲建国史 – Preface 序
Preface 序 Translated by Sun Siyuan & Joshua Peace Please see the PDF version of this text here for footnotes. The continent of Australia, otherwise known as simply Australia,[1] is located in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. It was still desolate and undeveloped 150 years ago. Since the commencement of British colonisation in Australia in 1788, painstaking…