Big White Lie
Subtitle: Chinese Australians in White Australia
Publisher: University of Washington Press; University of New South Wales Press
Published: August 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780868408705
Subjects: Cultural studies; Immigration & emigration; History; Sociology; History: World; Emigration & Immigration; Australia & New Zealand - General; Discrimination & Racism; Australia; Chinese; Immigrants; Social conditions
Description: 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.