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Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia

Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia

Fitzgerald, John

Paperback

Australia & OceaniaAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0868408700
ISBN13: 9780868408705
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Published: Jul 1 2007
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.19
Language: English
Short listed for the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Much has been written about the White Australia Policy, but very little has been written about it from a Chinese perspective. Big White Lie shifts our understanding of the White Australia Policy--and indeed White Australia--by exploring what Chinese Australians were saying and doing at a time when they were officially excluded. Big White Lie pays close attention to Chinese migration patterns, debates, social organizations, and their business and religious lives and shows that they had every right to be counted as Australians, even in White Australia. The book's focus on Chinese Australians provides a refreshing new perspective on the important role the Chinese have played in Australia's past at a time when China's likely role in Australia's future is more compelling than ever.

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