Red tape gold scissors : the story of Sydney's Chinese / Shirley Fitzgerald ; [foreword to the revised edition by] Clover Moore MP
- Bib ID:
- 4352949
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fitzgerald, Shirley, author
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Description:
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- Ultimo, New South Wales : Halstead in association with the City of Sydney, 2008
- ©2008
- 247 pages, 33 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781920831615 (paperback)
- 1920831614
- Summary:
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"One of the first free settlers attracted to Australia in 1818 was Mak Sui Ying, who has descendants living in Sydney today. He bought land, married, and took up a pub licence. Since then, Chinese people have had a colourful and conspicuous place in Australia's oldest city. The exotic spectacle of Chinese festivitiesdraw crowds of other races. But it was by providing plainer things, such as fruit, vegetables and furniture, that the Chinese came into the domestic lives of the general population. Success in work and commerce made them a target of business jealousy, racist agitation in the labour movement and discriminatory measures incluiding the White Australia Policy. In the newspapers, Chinese speakers and English speakers sneered at each other's racial inferiority. At the same time some white Australians and Chinese Australians earnt mutual respect. Quong Fatt, with his celebrated chain of tea rooms, was a favourite Sydney character. Inspector General of Police, Edmund Frosbery, preferred common sense to prejudiced stereotypes. Shirley Fitgerals's popular and scholarly book traces the feats and fortunes of Austrlaia's largest Chinese community; the highs and lows, the endless comings and goings, commerce, primary production, culture, religion and politics."--Back cover.
- Notes:
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- "This book was originally commissioned by the City of Sydney in the early 1990s"--Acknowledgements.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Moore, Clover, writer of foreword
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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