Thread by @baibi

March is Women’s History Month, so each day I’m going to tweet a piece of work by a woman about Chinese Australian women’s history… let’s see how we go! (I’m a day late, so I’ll post two today to catch up.) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Morag Loh and Christine Ramsay, 'Survival and Celebration: An Insight into the Lives of Chinese Immigrant Women, European Women Married to Chinese and Their Female Children in Australia from 1856–1986' (Melbourne: self-published, 1986) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Sophie Couchman, ‘“Oh, I Would like to See Maggie Moore Again”: Selected Women of Melbourne’s Chinatown’, in 'After the Rush', ed. Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor (Melbourne: Otherland Press, 2004), pp. 171–90. #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Alanna Kamp, 'Chinese Australian Women's "Homemaking" and Contributions to the Family Economy in White Australia', 'Australian Geographer’ 49, no. 1 (2018), pp. 149–165, DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2017.1327783 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Manying Ip, ‘Home Away from Home: Life Stories of Chinese Women in New Zealand’ (Auckland: New Women’s Press, 1990) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

As a bonus today, here’s a photo of Wong Sing Quan (Mrs T.F. Loie, b. 1886), among others, in Auckland in 1911 (Credit: May Sai Louie, reproduced in James Ng, ‘Windows on a Chinese Past’, vol. 2, p. 261) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Pamela Tan, ‘The Chinese Factor: An Australian Chinese Woman’s Life in China from 1950 to 1979’ (Dural, New South Wales: Rosenberg, 2008) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Mei-fen Kuo, ‘The "Invisible Work" of Women: Gender and Philanthropic Sociability in the Evolution of Early Chinese Australian Voluntary Organizations’, in ‘Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific’ (HKU Press, 2020), pp. 154–72 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Angela Woollacott, ‘Rose Quong Becomes Chinese: An Australian in London and New York’, 'Australian Historical Studies' 38, no. 129 (April 2007), pp. 16–31 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Sunday bonus! In 2016, Rose Quong was featured in the ABC’s ‘Having it Her Way’ series – Rose’s story was presented by Miranda Tapsell abc.net.au/radionational/… #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Veronica Kooyman, ‘The Family Yarn’, Sydney Living Museums website, web.archive.org/web/2018031402… + interview with Vivian Chan Shaw #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Julia Martínez, ‘Chinese Women in Prostitution in the Courts of 1880s Darwin’, ‘Northern Territory Historical Studies’ 30 (April 2019), pp. 28–42 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Helene Chung, ‘Ching Chong China Girl: From Fruitshop to Foreign Correspondent’ (Sydney: ABC Books, 2008) helenechung.com/book/ching-cho… #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Kirsten Wong, ‘A Place to Stand: The Chun Family Experience’, in ‘Unfolding History, Evolving Identity: The Chinese in New Zealand’, ed. Manying Ip (Auckland University Press, 2003), pp. 113–140 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Grace Gassin, ‘All Eyes on You: Debutantes’ Explorations of Chinese Australian Womanhood at the Dragon Festival Ball’, ‘Australian Historical Studies’, 2021, doi.org/10.1080/103146… #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

You can also listen to Grace Gassin’s ABC Radio Hindsight documentary, 'Dancing with Dragons: Chinese Debutante Balls'
abc.net.au/radionational/… #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Denise A. Austin, ‘Mary Yeung: The Ordinary Life of an Extraordinary Australian Chinese Pentecostal – Part I and II’, ‘Asian Journal Pentecostal Studies’ 16, no. 2 (August 2013), pp. 99–137 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Jenny Kee, ‘A Big Life’ (Camberwell, Victoria: Lantern, 2006) (you can read a brief bio of Jenny here: jennykee.com/about-jenny) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Kate Bagnall, ‘“To his Home at Jembaicumbene”: Women’s Cross-Cultural Encounters on a Colonial Goldfield’, in ‘Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific’, ed. J. Leckie, A. McCarthy and A. Wanhalla (Routledge, 2017), pp. 56–75 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Jan Ryan, ‘Chinese Women and the Global Village: An Australian Site’ (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2003) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Julia Bradshaw, ‘Golden Prospects: Chinese on the West Coast of New Zealand’ (Greymouth: Shantytown (West Coast Historical & Mechanical Society Inc.), 2009) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Helene Wong, ‘Being Chinese: A New Zealander's Story’ (Bridget Williams Books, 2016) bwb.co.nz/books/being-ch… #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Alanna Kamp, ‘Chinese Australian Daughters’ Experiences of Educational Opportunity in 1930s–60s Australia’, ‘Australian Historical Studies’, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2020.1868543 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Nikki Loong (ed.), ‘From Great Grandmothers to Great Granddaughters: The Stories of Six Chinese Australian Women’ (Katoomba, New South Wales: Echo Point Press, 2006) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Annette Shun Wah, ‘Grandma’s Chinese Whispers’, in ‘Family Journeys: Stories in the National Archives of Australia’ (Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2008), pp. 19–28
#chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Elizabeth Kwan, ‘Matriarch of Darwin’s Chinese Community’, ‘Inside Story’, 7 March 2019,
insidestory.org.au/matriarch-of-d… #chinozhist
#WomensHistoryMonth

Janis Wilton, ‘Golden Threads: The Chinese in Regional New South Wales’ (Armidale, New South Wales: New England Regional Art Museum in association with Powerhouse Publishers, Sydney, 2004) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

On the topic of Chinese Australian woman in regional NSW – here’s one of my favourite photos, of Emma Tear Tack and family! You can read about Emma's story in this blog post by Gill Oxley chineseaustralia.org/emma-tear-tack/ (Source: handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/45774) #chinozhist @WomensHistoryMonth

Julia Martínez, ‘Patriotic Chinese Women: Followers of Sun Yat-sen in Darwin, Australia’, in ‘Sun Yat-Sen, Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution’, ed. Lee Lai To and Lee Hock Guan (Singapore: ISEAS, 2011) pp. 200–18 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Sybil Jack et al. (eds), ‘Chinese Australian Women’s Stories’ (Sydney: Jessie Street National Women’s Library and the Chinese Heritage Association of Australia Inc., 2012) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Sophie Couchman, ‘Chang Woo Gow: The Man and the Giant’, in ‘An Angel By the Water: Essays in Honour of Dennis Reginald O’Hoy’, ed. Mike Butcher (Kensington, Victoria: Holland House Publishing, 2015), pp. 85–101 sophiecouchman.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/couchm… #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

In that last reading, @sophiecouchman looks into the story of Kin Foo, who toured Australia as the wife of Chang Woo Gow, as well as Chang’s Australian wife, Catherine Santley. See pic here: portrait.gov.au/portraits/2010… #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

@sophiecouchman Michelle Cavanagh, ‘Shen, Margaret (1942–1994)’, ‘Australian Dictionary of Biography’ (Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 2018), adb.anu.edu.au/biography/shen… #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Mavis Moo, ‘I Just Bore it Quietly’, in ‘Plantings in a New Land: Stories of Survival, Endurance and Emancipation’, ed. Chek Ling (Brisbane: Society of Chinese Australian Academics in Queensland, 2001), pp. 28–44 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Diana Giese, ‘Astronauts, Lost Souls & Dragon : Voices of Today's Chinese Australians’ (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1997) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

If you have a spare 10 minutes today, why not watch this interview with Lily Ah Toy, born in Darwin in 1917, recorded in 1995 for ‘Australian Biography’ nfsa.gov.au/collection/cur… (more info and resources here: australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/ahtoy…) #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

Kate Bagnall, ‘Chinese Women in Colonial New South Wales: From Absence to Presence’, ‘Australian Journal of Biography and History’ 3 (2020), pp. 3–20, press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pres… #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth #OpenAccess

Norma King Koi, ‘Discovering My Heritage: An Oral History of My Maternal Family – the Ah Moons of Townsville’, in ‘Histories of the Chinese in Australasia...’, ed. P. Macgregor (Melbourne: Museum of Chinese Australian History, 1993), pp. 287–95 #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

To finish off my #WomensHistoryMonth tweets about women in #chinozhist, I want to mention our new edited collection ‘Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia (HKU Press, 2021) – now available to purchase online! hkupress.hku.hk/pro/1811.php

‘Locating Chinese Women’ includes 10 chapters on questions of mobility and modernity in Chinese Australian women’s lives over the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including: business women, weddings, education, White Australa, biography, + more. #chinozhist #WomensHistoryMonth

It has been quite a journey from our initial symposium in 2014 to the finished book in 2021 – but big thanks to my co-editor @JuliaTMartinez1, and contributors @sophiecouchman @SophieLoyWilson @KuehBihun @MissPom @paulmacgregorCH @alanna_kamp and Antonia Finnane #chinozhist