Locating Chinese Women Historical Mobility Between China and Australia.
- 1 online resource (289 pages).
- Crossing Seas Ser. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
This ground-breaking edited collection draws together Australian historical scholarship on Chinese women, their gendered migrations, and their mobile lives between China and Australia. It considers different aspects of women's lives, both as individuals and as the wives and daughters of immigrant men. While the number of Chinese women in Australia before 1950 was relatively small, their presence was significant and often subject to public scrutiny. Moving beyond traditional representations of women as hidden and silent, this book demonstrates that Chinese Australian women in the twentieth century.
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Women immigrants--Social conditions--Australia--20th century. Chinese--Social conditions--Australia--20th century.