{"id":2345,"date":"2022-08-23T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T03:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/?page_id=2345"},"modified":"2023-02-14T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:33:06","slug":"literature-8-non-chinese","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/literature-8-non-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Observers 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For much of our evidence on Chinese Australian history \u2013 especially in the 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century \u2013 reliance is necessarily on European observers and European records. A great deal of this material is patronising at best and stereotypical or even plain made up at worst. In general, such observation pieces often tell us more about the writers than those being observed \u2013 but this too is useful. Nevertheless, amid this diverse material can be found many instances of careful and interesting observation \u2013 even when it is patronising (and\/or ignorant). Personal observation when sincerely given can provide much of value. Here is to be found a small selection of the great amount of such material to be found. The selections range from the comments of a naive English teacher to those of an experienced China consul, from eyewitness to the arrival of the first 150 Chinese gold seekers to pass through Bathurst in 1855, as well as the astonished spectator to a Chinese opera, not to mention the efforts of the authors of both&nbsp;<em>Mary Poppins<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Man from Snowy River<\/em>. Of course, the section would not be complete with the reports of those instant experts \u2013 the journalist and the travel writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/no-1-my-chinese-by-margaret-egerton\/\">No. 1:  My Chinese by Margaret Egerton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/?page_id=3686\">No. 2:  The Man from Shanghae, J. Dundas Crawford<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/no-3-amazing-the-yokels-of-bathurst\/\">No. 3:  Amazing the yokels of Bathurst<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/no-4-a-night-at-the-opera\/\">No. 4:  A Night at the Opera<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/no-5-ah-wong-meets-mary-poppins\/\">No. 5:  Ah Wong meets Mary Poppins<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/no-6-a-white-women-in-chinatown\/\">No. 6: A white women in Chinatown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/no-7-to-the-goldfields-by-omnibus\/\">No. 7: To the goldfields by Omnibus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/no-8-jimmy-the-pat\/\">No. 8:  Jimmy the Pat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Observers-8-booklet.pdf\">For the full booklet as a pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For much of our evidence on Chinese Australian history \u2013 especially in the 19th&nbsp;century \u2013 reliance is necessarily on European observers and European records. A great deal of this material is patronising at best and stereotypical or even plain made up at worst. In general, such observation pieces often tell us more about the writers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/literature-8-non-chinese\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Observers 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2345","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2345\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}