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I am a historian of Chinese Australian communities. My first book was a study of China-Australia relations in the interwar years, seen through the prism of Chinese Australian communities in Shanghai. In the book, I highlighted the importance of economic archives for immigration historians; these archives often preserve migrant agency. I combine methodological insights from labour history, overseas Chinese history, and the New History of Capitalism to bring a ‘New Materialist’ approach to Australia’s multi-ethnic and multi-lingual past.
History, School of Humanities (SOH)
Research interests
I specialise in Chinese Australian history, but I am also happy to supervise topics in Australian history more generally, particularly labour history, social history and immigration history.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3158