Abstract
The Chinese have been a significant presence in Australasia since the nineteenth
century, lured by the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand, frequently
marginalised into china towns, oppressed by the white colonial governments,
existing uneasily between Europeans and indigenous peoples. Later waves of
Chinese came for different reasons; politics, opportunity, family. These early
migrants and their children contributed significantly to their multicultural
communities but have different world views and identities to the more recent
Chinese migrants.The purpose of this paper is to explore and celebrate that
identity and its fraught relationship with other traditional or contemporay global
perspectives as expressed in the exhibition Gold Mountain Takeaways.
century, lured by the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand, frequently
marginalised into china towns, oppressed by the white colonial governments,
existing uneasily between Europeans and indigenous peoples. Later waves of
Chinese came for different reasons; politics, opportunity, family. These early
migrants and their children contributed significantly to their multicultural
communities but have different world views and identities to the more recent
Chinese migrants.The purpose of this paper is to explore and celebrate that
identity and its fraught relationship with other traditional or contemporay global
perspectives as expressed in the exhibition Gold Mountain Takeaways.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | Impact: Impact 9 International Printmaking Conference - Hanzhou China Duration: 22 Sep 2015 → 26 Sep 2015 |
Conference
| Conference | Impact: Impact 9 International Printmaking Conference |
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| Period | 22/09/15 → 26/09/15 |