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The Chinese Museum or Museum of Chinese Australian History [1] is an Australian history museum located in Melbourne's Chinatown.The museum was established in 1985 with a charter to present the history of Australians of Chinese ancestry, and is dedicated to documenting, preserving and displaying the history, heritage and culture of Australia's Chinese community.
Most Chinese who came to Australia for the gold rush were from Southern China. The Californian Gold Rush had been known as 'old gold mountain' to the Chinese of Guangdong. The Australian rush was known as 'new gold mountain'. Chinese immigrants to Australia left such conditions as overpopulation and poverty.
Chinese immigrants arriving in Chinatown, Melbourne, 1866. Chinese peoples have a long and continuing role in Australian history. There were early links between China and Australia when Macau and Canton were used as an important trading ports with the fledgling colony.
Chinese people first immigrated to Australia in large waves in the midst of the Australian gold rushes (beginning during the 1850s). Many of these people subsequently chose to return to China or were forcefully deported from Australia. The first known Chinese Australian was John Shying, who immigrated to Australia in 1818.
Hostility towards Asian immigration in Australia has a long history, dating back to the implementation of the "White Australia" policy in 1901. [9] This policy, which was in place until 1973, [10] consisted of laws and policies aimed at excluding non-white immigrants, particularly those from Asia, from settling in the country. [11]
Australia belatedly got the message. Many of Sydney's Chinese joined the Australian armed forces, as the Chinese war memorial in Chinatown attests. The local conditions generated by the Second World War were crucial to the slow collapse of the White Australia policy and many Chinese organised carefully to maximise their chances.
The Golden Dragon Museum (Chinese: 金龙博物馆) is a museum in the city of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, [1] dedicated to the culture and history of Chinese Australians, particularly in the region. Built on the historical site of one of Bendigo's Chinatowns, the museum's precinct also includes Chinese Gardens and a temple to Kuan Yin ...
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