I am an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University. Below is a selection of my publications. A full list can be found on Google scholar or Academia. My ORCID is 0000-0002-8794-3532.
Edited Books and Monographs
Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance, Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, 2015 (with Kate Bagnall)
Language, Sources and Approaches in Chinese Australian History, special issue of Chinese Southern Disapora Studies, vol.6, 2013 (with Kate Bagnall)
After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940, special issue of Otherland, vol.9, December 2004 (with John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor)
Book Chapters (selected)
‘Chinese-Australian commercial photographers in Australia’s north‘ in G.Grimwade, K.Rains & M.Dunk (eds), Rediscovered Past: Chinese Networks, CHINA Inc: East Ipswich, Qld, 2016
‘Introduction’ in S.Couchman and K.Bagnall (eds), Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance, Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, 2015
‘Chang Woo Gow: The Man and the Giant‘, in M.Butcher, An Angel by the Water: Essays in honour of Dennis Reginald O’Hoy, Holland House Publishing: Kennington, Victoria, 2015
‘Tales of Little Bourke Street‘ in A.Zable (ed), Stories from the Heart of Melbourne: Lygon St, Little Bourke St, Lonsdale St: The Vibrant History of Melbourne’s Italian, Chinese and Greek Cultural Precincts, City of Melbourne: Carlton, Vic, 2012
‘Riding with the best of them: Chinese Australians and cycling in Australia‘ in C.S.Simpson (ed), Scorchers, Ramblers and Rovers: Australasian Cycling Histories, Australian Society for Sports History Studies Series, no.21, 2006
Journal articles (selected)
‘Telling Chinese-Australian stories‘, Historic Environment, vol.24, no.1, 2012, pp.8-16
‘Making the “Last Chinaman”: Photography and Chinese as a “vanishing” people in Australia’s rural histories‘, Australian Historical Studies, vol.42, no.1, 2011, pp.78-91
‘“And then in the distance Quong Tart did we see”: Quong Tart, celebrity and photography‘, Journal of Colonial Australian History, vol.8, 2006, pp.159-182.
‘Not so mug mugshots: Behind the portraits of series B6443‘, Crossings, vol.9, no.3, 2004.
‘The banana trade: its importance to Melbourne’s Chinese in Little Bourke Street, 1880s – 1930s‘, Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Proceedings of an International Public Conference, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp.75-87
Theses
‘In and Out of Focus: Chinese and photography in Australia, 1870s-1940s’. PhD, Asian Studies, La Trobe University, 2009
‘Tong Yun Gai (Street of the Chinese): Investigating patterns of work and social life in Melbourne’s Chinatown 1900-1920’, Master of Arts (Public History), Monash University, 2000
Conference papers (selection)
‘New Questions about the Enlistment of Chinese Australians during WWI’, Australian Historical Association Conference, Australian National University, 2-6 July 2018
‘Lucky for Some?: Exhibiting post World War II British migration to Australia at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum’, First Eric Richards Symposium, Flinders University, Adelaide, 31 Jan to 3 Feb 2017 (with Moya McFadzean)
‘Telling Chinese Australian Stories’, Grasping the Intangible at Heritage Places: Australia ICOMOS Symposium, Melbourne, 18 Oct 2014
‘Chinese Australian brides, photography and the white wedding’, The Big Picture: Lives, Landscapes, Homelands in Australian and Chinese Art: 2nd FASIC Australian Studies Conference, Renmin University, Beijing 11-12 Sep 2014
‘Linking Chinese-Australian Communities through early Cantonese-English Phrasebooks’, Museums Australian National Conference, Launceston, 16-19 May 2014
Presentations, guest lectures and talks (selection)
Presentation on the history of Melbourne’s Chinatown as part of ‘Hidden Melbourne’ walking tour of Melbourne organised by the Professional Historians Association (Victoria) for Oral History Association of Australian conference, 8 Oct 2011
‘More than a pretty picture’, Re-view exhibition forum, National Gallery of Victoria, 30 Jan 2010
‘Using photographs for historical research’, guest lecture, 3rd year history honour preliminary class, Sep 2008
A full list of my publications can be found on Google scholar or Academia.
