Chinatown, Melbourne
non/fiction by Jinghua Qian
References
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✷ Frederick T. Macartney. Curios of Chinatown. Birth: a little journal of Australian poetry, Vol. 5:58, September 1921, 77.
✷ Curse those celestials. Tasmanian News, 7 October 1902, 4.
✷ Work for the “celestials”. Adelaide Times, 23 July 1856. 2.
✷ F. A. Sleap & G. R. Ashton. The Chinese demonstration at the exhibition—The Single Combat. David Syme & Co., Melbourne, 1886.
✷ The Melbourne Chinese Quarter, The Tasmanian, 8 July 1882, 7.
✷ Sketches in our Chinese quarter: fan tan playing, and a Chinese restaurant. Alfred May and Alfred Martin Ebsworth, 1880.
✷ J. Macfarlane. ‘Chinese sketches in the Slums’, 1 September 1893, David Syme and Co.
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✷ Chinese theatricals. The Argus, 10 July 1886, 4.
✷ Samuel Calvert & O. R. Campbell. Chinese theatricals in Melbourne, 16 July 1872.
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✷ A Girl in Chinatown: Sally Forth looks for trouble in a city’s Chinese quarter. The Australian Woman’s Mirror, 28 December 1937. 12-13.
✷ A young girl from the Chinese Youth Group holding a hand of a boy, Sydney. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner’s Advocate archive, 24 October 1943.
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✷ Interesting Chinese luncheon. (1937, March 21). The Sun, p. 12 (women’s section).
✷ Collecting funds for medical aid to China. October 1942. State Library of Queensland.
✷ Chinese boys on deck of ship. Sun Newspaper, 1 June 1938.
✷ Chinese women. Labor Call, 18 May 1933, 10.
✷ Chinese women. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, 27 July 1937, 10.
✷ China helps Australia—Miss Jack, a Chinese girl, measures up one of the component parts for naval guns. Argus Newspaper 1943.
✷ Chinese women workers’ strike. The Workers’ Weekly, 1 October 1926, 4.
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✷ Asians in Australia. The Bulletin, 27 May 1980.
✷ The Asian Invasion. The Bulletin, 16 August 1983.
✷ Roger Garwood. Chinese architectural style telephone box and street sign in five languages, Carnarvon Street, Broome. 1985.
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✷ Bob Fenney. The changing face of Chinatown. 12 April 1981.
✷ Rennie Ellis. Group of women in Chinatown, Melbourne. 1989.
✷ Rennie Ellis. China chef makes noodles by hand watched by Mona Lisa. 1980.
✷ Asians in Australia: more harmony than hatred. The Bulletin, 9 October 1984, 80-86.
✷ Miss Chinatown Brisbane Pageant – Chinatown Mall. Brisbane City Council, 1989.
Jinghua Qian is a writer and amateur historian. This is their first collage. jinghuaqian.com | @qianjinghua
