Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 Belonging and Exclusion......Page 16
Australian identity, Chinese exclusion......Page 19
Invocations of slavery......Page 24
Australians in China......Page 27
The hoax of John Chinaman......Page 31
2 Mateship and Modernity......Page 40
National Values and Chinese Exclusion......Page 41
Australian values and human values......Page 45
The timing of Australian settlement......Page 47
Equality in China and Japan......Page 49
Comparing white settlements with white......Page 51
Comparing non-white settlements with white......Page 55
How did the earlier confederations work?......Page 60
Sojourners and family emigration strategies......Page 62
Immigration and repatriation......Page 66
Chinese repatriation from Australia......Page 68
3 Immigrant Labour and Goldfield Fraternities......Page 72
Fraternities and organised labour immigration......Page 75
Scale and style of immigration......Page 76
Emigration to Australia......Page 77
Immigrants, clubs and merchants......Page 80
Legend and history......Page 84
An Australian journalist in nationalist China......Page 91
Other Australian journalists in China......Page 93
Australian patriotism......Page 94
4 Revolution, Respectability and Chinese Masonry......Page 96
Revolution......Page 99
Respectability......Page 104
Chinese Masons and Freemasonry......Page 108
Revolution and respectability in death......Page 113
5 Chinese Australia at Federation......Page 115
Federation......Page 119
Empire and qualities......Page 123
Equality and nations......Page 131
6 The Australian Kuo Min Tang......Page 141
Growth and the consolidation of the Australasian KMT......Page 143
The KMT and the Chinese Masonic Society......Page 146
Labour politics......Page 148
Aircraft purchase......Page 151
Chinese merchant mariners......Page 152
Canton Australasian Club......Page 156
The Canton Club at work......Page 160
Chinese-Australian perspectives on the Australasian KMT......Page 162
7 The Pacific Shadow of White Australia......Page 168
Maritime networks and Pacific Islands trade......Page 170
Chinese Australians and the Great War......Page 171
Buisness and the KMT......Page 174
KMT Pacific Island branches......Page 175
8 Entrepeneurs, Clubs and Christian Values......Page 192
Clubs and businesses......Page 196
Chambers of commerce......Page 198
China-Australia Mail Steamship Line......Page 201
Networked firms......Page 205
The four great stores of Shanghai......Page 209
Networks and opportunities......Page 214
Firms and Christian networks......Page 216
Reverend John Young Wai and his descendants......Page 220
9 Being Australian......Page 225
Being Australian......Page 230
Voices and values......Page 234
Chinese-Australian aspirations......Page 239
White Australia and Red China......Page 242
National values and racism......Page 246
Preface......Page 251
1 Belonging and Exclusion......Page 252
2 Mateship and Modernity......Page 253
3 Immigrant Labour and Goldfield Fraternities......Page 256
4 Revolution, Respectability and Chinese Masonry......Page 259
5 Chinese Australia at Federation......Page 261
6 The Australasian Kuo Min Tang......Page 262
7 The Pacific Shadow of White Australia......Page 265
8 Entrepeneurs, Clubs and Christian Values......Page 266
9 Being Australian......Page 268
Bibliography......Page 271
Acknowledgments......Page 288
Index......Page 289