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Australians in Shanghai - Race, Rights and Nation in Treaty Port China (Hardcover)
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Australians in Shanghai - Race, Rights and Nation in Treaty Port China (Hardcover)
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In the first half of the twentieth century, a diverse community of
Australians settled in Shanghai. There they forged a 'China trade',
circulating goods, people and ideas across the South China Sea,
from Shanghai and Hong Kong to Sydney and Melbourne. This trade has
been largely forgotten in contemporary Australia, where future
economic ties trump historical memory when it comes to popular
perceptions of China. After the First World War, Australians turned
to Chinese treaty ports, fleeing poverty and unemployment, while
others sought to 'save' China through missionary work and socialist
ideas. Chinese Australians, disillusioned by Australian racism
under the White Australia Policy, arrived to participate in Chinese
nation building and ended up forging business empires which survive
to this day. This book follows the life trajectories of these
Australians, providing a means by which we can address one of the
pervading tensions of race, empire and nation in the twentieth
century: the relationship between working-class aspirations for
social mobility and the exclusionary and discriminatory practices
of white settler societies.
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