Windows On A Chinese Past How The Cantonese Goldseekers And Their Heirs Settled In New Zealand

Author : Robert E. Weir
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443804363

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Knights Down Under by Robert E. Weir Pdf

In the United States, the Knights of Labour (KOL) is part of the wreckage of labor history, a nineteenth-century organization of great promise that flamed out quickly and completely. Many scholars (wrongly) see it as little more than a failed experiment that stumbled due to misplaced idealism and antiquated notions of fraternalism. In New Zealand, the KOL’s story was strikingly different, achieving tremendous success in a remarkably short time. Knights Down Under takes an in-depth look at the organization in New Zealand, and is the first thorough comparative study of the KOL in global context. It calls into question assumptions about the newness of globalism, national exceptionalism, the uniqueness of socialist movements, how social movements develop, the nature of leadership, and the possibilities and challenges of transnational organizing. The KOL was the first labour federation to envision itself as an international body that could and should expand beyond its North American birthplace. Knights Down Under sheds light on how the KOL evolved from the remnant of a failed Philadelphia tailors’ union to an international force that helped rewrite the social agenda in far-off New Zealand. Knights immersed themselves in workplace issues, but also delved into politics, got elected to Parliament, and promoted a comprehensive program of social and labour reform. They were the envy of workers in Western industrial societies, most of which would not enact similarly sweeping changes for another four decades. Among the reforms the KOL helped enact were women’s suffrage, mandatory arbitration of labour disputes, old-age pensions, early-closing hours for retail shops, land redistribution, an equitable tax code, and the creation of a department of labour. By aiding in the development of New Zealand’s first political system, the KOL also laid the groundwork for the future birth of an independent labour party.

Author : 费晟著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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再造金山——华人移民与澳新殖民地生态变迁 by 费晟著 Pdf

本书利用环境史的新视角整合了之前零碎保存的史料，从近代西方殖民扩张及生态变化的角度探讨澳新历史变化的特点，突破了传统国别史研究中重视政治经济话题，从而容易忽略地缘上较为次要的大洋洲区域史的局限。书中以澳新华人移民的经历与命运为线索，展现全球资本主义及西方殖民扩张中人口交流、经济发展、环境变化以及文化冲突之间的复杂互动。

Author : Angela McCarthy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000790375

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Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in New Zealand by Angela McCarthy Pdf

This book explores the question of whether the conceptualisation of New Zealand as a welcoming nation is accurate. Examining historical and contemporary narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination, it considers the economic, social, political, cultural and historical contexts from which discrimination emerges and its repercussions. Alert to race and ethnicity, gender, age, class, religion and inter-ethnic migrant conflict, this volume traverses an array of discriminatory practices – including xenophobia, racism and sectarianism – and responses to them. With rich evidence, fascinating new insights and engagement comparatively and transnationally with global themes of exploitation, exclusion and inequalities, Narratives of Migrant and Refuge Discrimination in New Zealand will appeal to scholars across the humanities and social sciences with interests in migration and diaspora studies, race and ethnicity and refugee studies.

Author : Manying Ip
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1869402898

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Unfolding History, Evolving Identity by Manying Ip Pdf

The only book that comprehensively covers the fortunes of Chinese immigrants in New Zealand from the earliest encounters in the mid-1800s, to the present day (including transnationalism) offering valuable data and expert viewpoints for international study and comparision. A timely book that will strike chords with the Chinese communiities in Australia, Canada and the United states, because of the strikingly similar expieriences of members of those communities at the hands of colonial governments and sometimes xenophobic societies.

Author : Zarine L. Rocha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317390787

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Mixed Race Identities in Asia and the Pacific by Zarine L. Rocha Pdf

"Mixed race" is becoming an important area for research, and there is a growing body of work in the North American and British contexts. However, understandings and experiences of "mixed race" across different countries and regions are not often explored in significant depth. New Zealand and Singapore provide important contexts for investigation, as two multicultural, yet structurally divergent, societies. Within these two countries, "mixed race" describes a particularly interesting label for individuals of mixed Chinese and European parentage. This book explores the concept of "mixed race" for people of mixed Chinese and European descent, looking at how being Chinese and/or European can mean many different things in different contexts. By looking at different communities in Singapore and New Zealand, it investigates how individuals of mixed heritage fit into or are excluded from these communities. Increasingly, individuals of mixed ancestry are opting to identify outside of traditionally defined racial categories, posing a challenge to systems of racial classification, and to sociological understandings of "race". As case studies, Singapore and New Zealand provide key examples of the complex relationship between state categorization and individual identities. The book explores the divergences between identity and classification, and the ways in which identity labels affect experiences of "mixed race" in everyday life. Personal stories reveal the creative and flexible ways in which people cross boundaries, and the everyday negotiations between classification, heritage, experience, and nation in defining identity. The study is based on qualitative research, including in-depth interviews with people of mixed heritage in both countries. Filling an important gap in the literature by using an Asia/Pacific dimension, this study of race and ethnicity will appeal to students and scholars of mixed race studies, ethnicity, Chinese diaspora and cultural anthropology.

Author : Wei Li
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824829115

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From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb by Wei Li Pdf

From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb focuses on the migration, settlement, and adaptation of Chinese and other Asian immigrants and their impacts on the transformation of metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These stories of the interactivity of Asian "people and place" in four nation-states are framed within the larger context of spatial and social patterns, migration, acculturation/assimilation, and racialization theories, and emerging landscapes in the inner cities and suburbs of metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney, and Auckland. The book's primary arguments center on revisioning traditional "assimilationist" models of the Chicago School with the context of today's evolving metropolis. Other key elements include immigrant and refugee policies, new theories of ethnic settlement, and urban and suburban immigrant landscape forms. Nine chapters document the experiences of Asian immigrants and refugees--rich and poor, old and new. Their communities vary from no identifiable residential cluster (Vietnamese in Northern Virginia) to multiple residential and business clusters in both inner city and suburbs (Koreans in Los Angeles, Chinese in Toronto) to the largest suburban Chinese residential and business concentration (the San Gabriel Valley of suburban Los Angeles) and the "high-tech Mecca" of the U.S., if not the world (Silicon Valley), whose growth has been inseparable from workers, professionals, and entrepreneurs of Asian descents who are often local residents as well. Rich in detail and broad in scope, From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb is the first book to focus exclusively on the Asian immigrant communities in multiethnic suburbs. It effectively demonstrates the complexity of contemporary Asian immigrant and refugee groups and the strength of their communities across the Pacific Rim. It will be welcomed by a wide range of readers with interests in Asian American studies, urban geography, the Chinese diaspora, immigration, and transnationalism. Contributors: Richard Bedford, Kevin Dunn, David W. Edgington, Michael A. Goldberg, Elsie Ho, Thomas A. Hutton, Hans Dieter Laux, Wei Li, Lucia Lo, John R. Logan, Edward J. W. Park, Suzannah Roberts, Christopher J. Smith, Günter Thieme, Joseph S. Wood.

Author : Ts'ui-jung Liu,James Beattie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137572318

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Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia by Ts'ui-jung Liu,James Beattie Pdf

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.

Author : James Beattie,Edward Melillo,Emily O'Gorman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441125941

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Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire by James Beattie,Edward Melillo,Emily O'Gorman Pdf

19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, cultures and societies throughout the British Empire and how they were themselves transformed by local and regional conditions. This multi-authored volume begins with a rigorous theoretical analysis of the categories of 'empire' and 'imperialism'. Its chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, draw methodologically from recent studies in environmental history, post-colonial theory and the history of science. Together, these perspectives provide a comprehensive historical understanding of how the British Empire reshaped the globe during the 19th and 20th centuries. This book will be an important addition to the literature on British imperialism and global ecological change.

Author : James Beattie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351168625

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Gardens at the Frontier by James Beattie Pdf

Gardens at the Frontier addresses broad issues of interest to architectural historians, environmental historians, garden writers, geographers, and other scholars. It uses different disciplinary perspectives to explore garden history’s thematic, geographical, and methodological frontiers through a focus on gardens as sites of cultural contact. The contributors address the extent to which gardens inhibit or further cultural contact; the cultural translation of garden concepts, practices and plants from one place to another; the role of non-written sources in cultural transfer; and which disciplines study gardens and designed landscapes, and how and why their approaches vary. Chapters cover a range of designed landscapes and locations, periods and approaches: medieval Japanese roji (tea gardens); a seventeenth-century garden of southern China; post-war Australian ‘natural gardens’; iconic twentieth-century American modernist gardens; ‘international’ willow-pattern design; geology and designed landscapes; gnomes; and landscape authorship of a public garden. Each chapter examines transfers of cultural ideas and their physical denouement. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes.

Author : Sophie Couchman,Kate Bagnall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004288553

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Chinese Australians by Sophie Couchman,Kate Bagnall Pdf

In Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance key scholars explore how Chinese Australians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced the communities in which they lived on a civic or individual level. With a focus on the motivations and aspirations of their subjects, the authors draw on biography, world history, case law, newspapers and immigration case files to investigate the political worlds of Chinese Australians. The book also introduces current literature and thinking about the history of the Chinese in Australia and includes a postscript that reflects on the importance of historical analysis to current day political science.

Author : Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1592650430

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Hua Song by Suchen Christine Lim Pdf

Photographic album of the origins and development of Chinese communities around the world.

Author : Desley Deacon,Penny Russell,Angela Woollacott
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781921536212

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Transnational Ties by Desley Deacon,Penny Russell,Angela Woollacott Pdf

Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars - historians, literary critics, and museologists - trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia's distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected Australians to a global community of thought. It shows how biography, and the study of life stories, can contribute greatly to our understanding of such patterns of connection and explores how transnationalism can test biography's limits as an intellectual, professional and commercial practice.

Author : Tony Ballantyne,Brian Moloughney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064900940

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Disputed Histories by Tony Ballantyne,Brian Moloughney Pdf

Reflects on the writing about New Zealand's past. This book tells much about New Zealand's past and how historians have imagined them. It indicates particular concerns with what the country is, and the role of history as a discipine within the nation. Itasks questions and ventures some answers, and surveys the work of historians since the 1980s.

Author : Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015066331425

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Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Pdf

Author : Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060835280

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Stories of the Chinese Overseas by Suchen Christine Lim Pdf

Celebrates the spirit and memory of those who left their homes for a dream. It weaves together the many threads of this epic journey and gives voice to the men and women who undertook it. A jewel box of archival photographs, images and artefacts recalls a common past, bringing to vivid life the continuing story of the Chinese.