Title: Big white lie : Chinese Australians in white Australia /
Authors: Fitzgerald, John, 1951-
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Chinese Australia History.; Chinese Australia Social conditions.; Immigrants Australia History; Immigrants Australia Social conditions.; White Australia policy.; Racism Australia; Australia Race relations.; Australia Social conditions.; Australia Relations China.; China Relations Australia.
Abstract: This book pays close attention to Chinese migration patterns, debates, social organisations and their business and religious lives and shows that they had every right to be counted as Australians, even in White Australia. It provides a refreshing new perspective on the importance of the Chinese in Australia's past.
Contents: 1. Belonging and exclusion -- 2. Mateship and modernity -- 3. Immigrant labour and goldfield fraternities -- 4. Revolution, respectability and Chinese Masonry -- 5. Chinese Australia at federation -- 6. The Australasian Kuo Min Tang -- 7. The Pacific shadow of White Australia -- 8. Entrepreneurs, clubs and Christian values -- 9. Being Australian.