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From: "Joy Moloney" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-CHINESE] AUS-CHINESE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 12
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:03:22 +1000
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Hi Trish

I don't have Chinese ancestry, the history of the chinese in Aust is just an
interest of mine - one of the many.
Do you have a copy of Red Tape, Gold Scissors etc? It looks interesting so I
was thinking I might buy it. Thank you for mentioning it.

I did find Ah Foo for a man in Melbourne in my book so that made me feel a
little better.

Kind regards
Joy in lovely sunny Wagga Wagga NSW
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From: "Trish J" <>
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Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [AUS-CHINESE] AUS-CHINESE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 12


> Hello Joy,
> I was confused with this book I think ! It must be frustrating for you
> not being able to find any names people are asking for.
> Do you know of CAFHOV in Melbourne, it is a groupd of people interested
> in Chinese family History?
> TRISH J
>
> Red Tape, Gold Scissors: The Story of Sydney's Chinese Shirley
> Fitzgerald
> Sydney (Halstead Press) 2008 - revised and updated edition in English
> 248pp includes index, bibliographical references, black & white
> photographs
> ISBN 9781920831615 (paperback)
> Aus$35.00
> One of the few free settlers attracted to Australia in 1818 was Mak Sai
> Ying, who has descendents living in Sydney today. He bought land, married,
> and took up a pub licence. Since then, Chinese people have had a colourful
> and conspicuous place in Australia's oldest city. The exotic spectacle of
> Chinese festivities drew crowds of other races. But it was by providing
> plainer things, such as fruit, vegetables and furniture, that the Chinese
> came into the domestic lives of the general population.
> Success in work and commerce made them a target of business, jealousy,
> racist agitation in the labour movement, and discriminatory measures
> including the White Australia Policy.
> In their newspapers, Chinese speakers and English speakers sneered at
> each other's racial inferiority. At the same time some white Australians
> and Chinese Australians earnt mutual respect. Quong Tart, with his
> celebrated chain of tea rooms, was a favourite Sydney character. Inspector
> General of Police, Edmund Fosbery, preferred common sense to prejudiced
> stereotypes.
> Shirley Fitzgerald's popular and scholarly book traces the feats and
> fortunes of Australia's largest Chinese community; the highs and lows, the
> endless comings and goings, commerce, primary production, culture,
> religion and politics.
>
>
> Regards from TRISH J [Sunny South Australia]
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