This is a bibliography of books relating to Chinese Australians. Please feel free to message us with any suggestions or corrections using the Contact form.
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Column S shows if the State Library of Victoria (SLV) has a physical copy of the book.
Column O shows if the book is available to read or download online. S = State Library of Victoria, N = National Library of Victoria, P = Publisher.
Column F means that the book is a work of fiction or an account that is partly fictionalised.
Last updated: Sunday, 15 September, 2024.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | T | S | O | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous | Chinese Footsteps: Historical Sites in Bendigo – Links with the Chinese Community | Golden Dragon Museum | 2000 | Book | Y | ||
| Anonymous | Showing Face: Chinese Identity in Regional Victoria from 1850s to Federation | Golden Dragon Museum | 2000 | Book | Y | ||
| Anonymous | Chinese Memorials and Memories: The White Hills Cemetery – Bendigo | Golden Dragon Museum | 2001 | Book | Y | ||
| Anonymous | The Walk From Robe | Golden Dragon Museum | 2001 | Book | Y | ||
| Anonymous | Chinese Snapshots: Newspaper Observations of the Chinese on the Central Victorian Goldfields | Friends of the Mount Alexander Diggings | 2011 | Book | Y | ||
| Anonymous | A Comprehensive Chinese Australian History 1818-2018: Tracking the footsteps of the dragon in Australia | New Century Publications | 2018 | Book | Y | ||
| Atherton, Robyn | They Were More Than Just Gold Diggers: The Chinese of Murrumburrah and Surrounding Districts, 1860s-1960s | Harden-Murrumburrah Historical Society | 2010 | Book | Y | ||
| Bagnall, Kate; Martinez, Julia (Ed) | Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia | HKU Press | 2021 | Book | S | ||
| Bagnall, Kate; Prince, Peter | Subjects and Aliens: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand | Australian National University | 2023 | Book | Y | S | |
| Beck, Maxwell | Dai Gum San: Bendigo’s Big Gold Mountain | Bendigo Trust | 1974 | Book | Y | ||
| Boileau, Joanna | Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand: Gardens of Prosperity | Palgrave Macmillan | 2017 | Book | S | ||
| Brooks, Alis | Chinese Australians | Echidna Books | 2008 | Book | Y | ||
| Brooks, Tony; Doering, Brett | Drinking the Black Smoke | Tony Brooks Productions | 2011 | Book | Y | ||
| Brumley, Linda; et al | Fading Links to China: Ballarat’s Chinese Gravestones and Associated Records, 1854-1955 | University of Melbourne History Department | 1992 | Book | Y | ||
| Butcher, Mike | An Angel by the Water: Essays in Honour of Dennis Reginald O’Hoy | Holland House Publishing | 2015 | Book | Y | ||
| Butler, Richard | Hill of Gold | CCH Australia | 1981 | Book | Y | F | |
| Byrne, Denis; et al | The China-Australia Migration Corridor: History and Heritage | Melbourne University Press | 2023 | Book | Y | ||
| Campbell, Persia Crawford | Chinese Coolie Emigration to Countries Within the British Empire | P S King | 1923 | Book | Y | ||
| Cawthorne, Ellen | The Long Journey: The Story of the Chinese Landings at Robe during the gold rush era, 1852-63 | E M Cawthorne, Robe | 1974 | Book | Y | ||
| Chan Ching-Howe (Ed) | Chung Wah Association Centenary Commemorative Publication | Chung Wah Association | 2010 | Book | P | ||
| Chan, Henry; et al [Editor] | The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions | Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora | 2001 | Book | Y | ||
| Cheng, Christopher | New Gold Mountain: The Diary of Shu Cheong | Scholastic Press | 2005 | Book | Y | ||
| Chin, Mun; Chin, Ivy; Scott, Carol | Chinese in the Creswick Cemetery: Headstones and transcriptions, a cultural interpretation | Chinese Heritage Interest Network | 2009 | Book | Y | ||
| Chin, Mun; Chin, Ivy; Scott, Carol | An Index: A Chronology of Chinese Deaths in Creswick (1856-1958) | Chinese Heritage Interest Network | 2022 | Book | Y | ||
| Choi Ching Yan | Chinese Migration and Settlement in Australia with special reference to the Chinese in Melbourne (Thesis) | Australian National University | 1971 | Thesis | P | ||
| Choi Ching Yan | Chinese Migration and Settlement in Australia | Sydney University Press | 1975 | Book | Y | ||
| Clyne, Jo; et al | Chinese ANZACs | Department of Veterans’ Affair, Australia | 2015 | Book | P | ||
| Cole, Keith | The Anglican Mission to the Chinese in Bendigo and Central Victoria, 1854-1918 | Keith Cole Publications | 1994 | Book | Y | ||
| Cooper, Lynne | The Mystery Medal: A Tale of Crime and Compassion, Castlemaine Goldfields 1889 | Lynne Cooper | 2024 | Book | |||
| Couchman, Sophie (Ed) | Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories | CAFHOV | 2018 | Book | Y | ||
| Couchman, Sophie (Ed) | Journeys into Chinese Australian Family History | CAFHOV | 2019 | Book | Y | ||
| Couchman, Sophie; Bagnall, Kate | Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance | Brill | 2015 | Book | Y | S | |
| Cronin, Kathryn | Colonial Casualties: Chinese in Early Victoria | Melbourne University Press | 1982 | Book | Y | ||
| Davies, L Will | The Forgotten: The Chinese Labour Corps and the Chinese ANZACs in the Great War | Wilkinson Publishing | 2020 | Book | Y | ||
| Finch, Ely | A Transcription and Translation of The Chinese Advertiser, and the English and Chinese Advertiser | Ely Finch, Melbourne | 2015 | Book | S | ||
| Fitzgerald, John | Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia | University of NSW Press, Sydney | 2007 | Book | Y | S | |
| Fitzgerald, John; Yip Hong-min (Ed) | Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1949 | Hong Kong University Press | 2020 | Book | S | ||
| Fitzgerald, Shirley | Red Tape, Gold Scissors: The Story of Sydney’s Chinese | Halstead + City of Sydney | 2008 | Book | Y | ||
| Flannigan, Alison Choy | Chinese Whispers: In search of Ivy – A gold rush story told by generations of an Australian-Chinese family | Black Quill Press, Sydney | 2018 | Book | Y | ||
| Florance, Robyn | The Chinese in Shoalhaven | Shoalhaven Historical Society | 2004 | Book | Y | ||
| Foster, Jim | Xiang and the New Gold Mountain | J Foster, Mount Gambier | 2001 | Book | Y | F | |
| Fullwood, Margaret | Spirit of China in Creswick (Xin Jin Shan: The New Gold Mountain) | Creswick Museum | 2014 | Book | Y | ||
| Gibson, Peter | Made in Chinatown: Chinese Australian Furniture Factories, 1880-1930 | Sydney University Press | 2022 | Book | Y | S | |
| Giese, Diana | Beyond Chinatown: Changing Perspectives on the Top End Chinese Experience | National Library of Australia | 1995 | Book | Y | N | |
| Giese, Diana | Astronauts, Lost Souls and Dragons: Voices of Today’s Chinese Australians | University of Queensland Press | 1997 | Book | Y | ||
| Giese, Diana | Courage and Service: Chinese Australians and World War II | Courage and Service Project | 1999 | Book | Y | ||
| Gittins, Jean | The Diggers from China: The Story of Chinese on the Goldfields | Quartet Books | 1981 | Book | Y | ||
| Gock Yen, Mavis | South Flows the Pearl: Chinese Australian Voices | Sydney University Press | 2022 | Book | S | ||
| Grassby, Al; Hill, Marji | Chinese Australians | Macmillan Education Australia | 2000 | Book | Y | ||
| Grayson, Patrick | Chinese Down-Under: Chinese people in Australia, their history here, and their influence, then and now | Heart Space Publications | 2018 | Book | S | ||
| Groom, Jocelyn | Chinese Pioneers of the King Valley | Centre for Continuing Education, Wangaratta | 2001 | Book | Y | ||
| Hardy, Gail | Bendigo Easter Fair, 1871-2009: The Celebration Continues | Bendigo Easter Fair Society | 2010 | Book | Y | ||
| Harfull, Liz | Guichen Bay and the Chinese Landings | District Council of Robe | 2017 | Book | Y | ||
| Hirst, John [Editor] | The Chinese on the Australian Goldfields | La Trobe University | 1991 | Book | Y | ||
| Holsworth, Carol | Chinese in Echuca-Moama: A Chronicle 1850s to 1930 | Echuca Historical Society | 2008 | Book | Y | ||
| Holsworth, Carol | Chinese Lepers in Victoria: A Case of Charity and Cultural Clashes | Friends of the Bendigo Cemeteries | 2009 | Book | Y | ||
| Horsfall, David | March to Big Gold Mountain | Red Rooster Press | 1985 | Book | Y | ||
| Horsfield, Yvonne | Chinese Roots | Shawline Publishing | 2023 | Book | Y | S | F |
| Huck, Arthur | The Chinese in Australia | Longmans | 1968 | Book | Y | ||
| Huck, Arthur | The Assimilation of the Chinese in Australia | ANU Press | 1970 | Book | Y | ||
| James, Ken | Chinese Miners and Market Gardeners of Lyal and Myrtle Creek, Central Victoria | K James, Camberwell | 2005 | Book | Y | ||
| James, Ken | Chinese Entries in Various Land and Mining Records held by the Public Records Office of Victoria | Ken James, Camberwell | 2006 | Book | Y | ||
| Jones, Paul | Chinese-Australian Journeys: Records on Travel, Migration, and Settlement, 1860-1975 | National Archives of Australia | 2005 | Book | Y | ||
| Jones, Paul; McCormack, Terri | Chinese Australians: A Guide to Holdings in the Mitchell Library | Department of Asian Studies, La Trobe University | 2000 | Book | Y | ||
| Jong Ah Siug | A Difficult Case: An Autobiography of a Chinese Miner on the Central Victorian Goldfields | Jim Crow Press, Daylesford | 2000 | Book | Y | ||
| Kamp, Alanna | Intersectional Lives: Chinese Australian Women in White Australia | Taylor and Francis | 2022 | Book | S | ||
| Kaufman, Robert | The Chinese on the Upper Ovens Goldfield, 1855-1920 | LRGM, Bright | 1997 | Book | Y | ||
| Kee Pookong, et al | Chinese in Oceania | Association for the Study of the Chinese and their Descendants | 2002 | Book | Y | ||
| Kennedy, Alastair | Chinese Anzacs: Australians of Chinese Descent in the Defence Forces 1885-1919 | Alastair Kennedy | 2012 | Book | Y | ||
| Kennedy, David | Charles Washing and Racist Furniture | David Kennedy | 2021 | Book | F | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Old Chinese Section: Campbell’s Creek Cemetery, Castlemaine, Victoria | Golden Dragon Museum | 2002 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Bendigo Cemetery Chinese Section – A Study | Golden Dragon Museum | 2003 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Chinese Cemeteries in Australia in New South Wales (Albury, Wagga Wagga, Braidwood, Tumut, Bolong, Jerilderie) | Golden Dragon Museum | 2003 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Chinese Graves in Victoria (Echuca, Avoca, Rutherglen, Yackandandah, Eddington, Ararat, Vaughan, Pennyweight Flat) | Golden Dragon Museum | 2003 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Chinese Graves in the Beechworth Cemetery, Beechworth, Victoria | Golden Dragon Museum | 2004 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Chinese Graves in the Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, NSW: Chinese Section 1, 1868-1920 | Golden Dragon Museum | 2004 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | White Hills Cemetery Chinese Section: A Study | Golden Dragon Museum | 2004 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Chinese Graves and Burners in Cemeteries in New South Wales | Golden Dragon Museum | 2005 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Chinese Graves in Cemeteries in Victoria | Golden Dragon Museum | 2005 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Chinese Lodges in Australia | Golden Dragon Museum | 2005 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Hung Men Handbook: Commentary and Annotation | Golden Dragon Museum | 2005 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney: Chinese Section III, 1917-1945 | Golden Dragon Museum | 2005 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Chinese Cemeteries in Australia: Weldborough, Moorina, Gladstone, Branxholm and Lefroy | Golden Dragon Museum | 2006 | Book | Y | ||
| Kok Hu Jin | Chinese Temples in Australia | Golden Dragon Museum | 2008 | Book | Y | ||
| Kuo Mei-Fen | Making Chinese Australia: Urban Elites, Newspapers and the Formation of Chinese Australian Identity | Monash University Publishing | 2013 | Book | Y | S | |
| Kuo Mei-Fen; Brett, Judith | Unlocking the History of the Australasian Kuo Min Tang, 1911-2013 | Australian Scholarly Publishing | 2013 | Book | Y | ||
| Liu, Liagni Sally | Chinese Transnational Migration in the Age of Global Modernity: The Case of Oceania | Routledge | 2018 | Book | S | ||
| Lo, Jacqueline | Writing Home: Chinese Australian Perspectives | Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora | 2000 | Book | Y | ||
| Loh, Morag | Sojourners and Settlers: Chinese in Victoria, 1848-1985 | China Advisory Committee | 1985 | Book | Y | ||
| Loh, Morag | Dinky-Di: The Contributions of Chinese Immigrants and Australians of Chinese Descent to Australia’s Defence Forces and War | Australian Government Publishing Service | 1989 | Book | Y | ||
| Loh, Morag; Ramsay, Christine | Survival and Celebration: An insight into the lives of Chinese immigrant women married to Chinese | Morag Loh and Christine Ramsay | 1986 | Book | Y | ||
| Low, Dorothy | The History of the Chinese Presbyterian Church, Melbourne, Victoria, 1860-1997 | D Low, Melbourne | 1997 | Book | Y | ||
| Macgregor, Paul [Editor] | Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific | Museum of Chinese Australian History | 1995 | Book | Y | ||
| Macklin, Robert | Dragon and Kangaroo: Australia and China’s Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day | Hatchette Australia | 2015 | Book | Y | S | |
| May, Cathy | Topsawyers: The Chinese in Cairns, 1870-1920 | James Cook University | 1984 | Book | Y | ||
| McGowan, Barry | Tracking the Dragon: Thematic History of the Chinese People in the Rutherglen/Wahgunyah region of Indigo Shire, Victoria | Barry McGowan | 2015 | Book | Y | ||
| McGowan, Barry | Tracking the Dragon: The History of the Chinese people in the Hay, Deniliquin and Hillston districts of New South Wales | Museum of the Riverina | 2016 | Book | Y | N | |
| McGowan, Barry | Tracking the Dragon: A Study of the Chinese in the Narrandera District of New South Wales | Museum of the Riverina | 2016 | Book | Y | N | |
| McGowan, Barry | Tracking the Dragon: A Study of the Chinese in the Wagga Wagga District of New South Wales | Museum of the Riverina | 2016 | Book | Y | N | |
| McGowan, Barry | Tracking the Dragon: The History of the Chinese in the Tumut and Adelong Districts of New South Wales | Museum of the Riverina | 2016 | Book | Y | N | |
| McGowan, Barry | Tracking the Dragon: The History of the Chinese in the Temora District of New South Wales | Museum of the Riverina | 2016 | Book | Y | N | |
| McKinnon, Leigh | A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Figures in Bendigo’s Chinese Community | Golden Dragon Museum | 2015 | Book | Y | ||
| McKinnon, Leigh | Places Associated with Bendigo’s Historic Chinese Community | Golden Dragon Museum | 2015 | Book | Y | ||
| McKinnon, Leigh | Chinese ANZACs of the Loddon Mallee Region | Golden Dragon Museum | 2018 | Book | |||
| McKinnon, Leigh; Jack, Anita | A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Figures in Bendigo’s Chinese Community | Golden Dragon Museum | 2015 | Book | Y | ||
| McLaren, Ian F | The Chinese in Victoria: Official Reports and Documents | Red Rooster Press | 1985 | Book | Y | ||
| Moore, Barbara | Eurasian Roots: A Story of the Life and Times of George Ah Kin and Mary Higgins and their Descendants | Barbara Moore | 1994 | Book | Y | ||
| Neal, Stan | Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819-1867 | Boydell Press; Suffolk | 2019 | Book | S | ||
| Ngai, Mae | The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics | W W Norton and Company | 2021 | Book | Y | ||
| Ngan, Lucille; Chan Kwok Bun | The Chinese Face in Australia: Multi-Generational Ethnicity among Australian-born Chinese | Springer | 2012 | Book | S | ||
| Oldis, Ken | The Chinawoman | Arcadia; North Melbourne | 2008 | Book | Y | F | |
| Owen, June | Mixed Matches: Interracial Marriage in Australia | UNSW Press | 2002 | Book | Y | ||
| Pan, Lynn | Sons of the Yellow Emperor: The Story of the Overseas Chinese | Secker and Warburg, London | 1990 | Book | Y | ||
| Pearson, Michael | Tracking the Dragon: A guide for finding and assessing Chinese Australian heritage places | Australian Heritage Commission | 2002 | Book | Y | ||
| Ritchie, Fiona | Guichen Bay to Canton Lead: The Chinese Trek to Gold | District Council of Robe | 2004 | Book | Y | ||
| Robb, Sandi | Cairns Chinatown: A Heritage Study | Cairns and District Chinese Association | 2012 | Book | Y | ||
| Roberts, Ian David | The Celestials | Arden | 2023 | Book | Y | F | |
| Rolls, Eric | Flowers and the Wide Sea: Sojourners | University of Queensland Press | 1992 | Book | Y | ||
| Rolls, Eric | Flowers and the Wide Sea: Citizens | University of Queensland Press | 1996 | Book | Y | ||
| Ryan, Jan | Ancestors: Chinese in Colonial Australia | Fremantle Arts Centre | 1995 | Book | Y | ||
| Ryan, Jan | Chinese Women and the Global Village: An Australian Site | University of Queensland Press | 2003 | Book | Y | ||
| Scott, Joan | Miners to Market Gardeners: Chinese on the Castlemaine Goldfields | Graffiti Publications | 2012 | Book | Y | ||
| Shen Yuanfang | Dragon Seed in the Antipodes: Chinese-Australian Autobiographies | Melbourne University Press | 2001 | Book | Y | ||
| Skene, Patrick | Celestial Footy: The Story of Chinese Heritage Aussie Rules | Hardie Grant Media | 2023 | Book | Y | ||
| Slocomb, Margaret | Among Australia’s Pioneers: Chinese Indentured Pastoral Workers on the Northern Frontier, 1848 to c1880 | Balboa Press | 2014 | Book | |||
| Smith, Lindsay | The Chinese of Kiandra, New South Wales | Heritage Office, NSW | 1997 | Book | Y | ||
| Sprengel, Wilf | Robe’s Chinese Invasion, 1857-1863 | Rolf Sprengel | 1985 | Book | Y | ||
| Stacker, Julie; Stewart, Peri | Chinese Immigrants and Chinese-Australians in NSW | National Archives of Australia | 2004 | Book | Y | N | |
| Talbot, Diann | The Buckland Valley Riot | Bright and District Historical Society | 2007 | Book | Y | ||
| Talbot, Diann | Who Is She? The lives and trials of the women and children who shared their lives with Chinese men | Diann Talbot | 2016 | Book | Y | ||
| Travers, Robert | Australian Mandarin: The Life and Times of Quong Tart | Rosenburg Publishing | 2004 | Book | Y | ||
| Twycross, James | Footprints in History: A Comprehensive History of the Life and Times of the Ah Shin Family | James Twycross | 2021 | Book | Y | ||
| Walker, David; Sobocinska, Agnieszka | Australia’s Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century | UWA Publishing | 2012 | Book | Y | S | |
| Wang Zheng-Ting | Chinese Music in Australia: Victoria, 1850s to mid 1990s | Australia Asia Foundation, Melbourne | 1997 | Book | Y | ||
| Wegars, Priscilla | Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese | Baywood, Amityville. USA | 1993 | Book | Y | ||
| Welsh, Lionel | Vermilion and Gold: Vignettes of Chinese Life in Ballarat | Banyan Press | 1985 | Book | Y | ||
| Willard, Myra | History of the White Australia Policy to 1920 [2nd Edition] | Melbourne University Press | 1967 | Book | Y | ||
| William, Michael | Australian’s Dictation Test: The Test It Was A Crime To Fail | Brill | 2021 | Book | S | ||
| Williams, Michael | Chinese Settlement in NSW: A Thematic History | NSW Heritage Office | 1999 | Book | S | ||
| Williams, Michael | Returning Home with Glory: Chinese Villagers around the Pacific, 1849-1949 | Hong Kong University Press | 2018 | Book | S | ||
| Wilton, Janis | Golden Threads: The Chinese in Regional New South Wales, 1850-1950 | Powerhouse Museum | 2004 | Book | Y | ||
| Wong Shee Ping; Finch, Ely | The Poison of Polygamy: A Social Novel | Sydney University Press | 2019 | Book | Y | ||
| Wong, Pamela Lee | The Mystery Aussie: Jan See Chin | PLW Publishing | 2018 | Book | Y | ||
| Yarwood, Alexander Turnbull | Asian Migration to Australia: The Background to Exclusion, 1896-1923 | Melbourne University Press | 1964 | Book | Y | ||
| Yen Ching-Hwang | Coolies and Mandarins: China’s Protection of Overseas Chinese during the Late Ch’ing Period (1851-1911) | Singapore University Press | 1985 | Book | Y | ||
| Yong Ching Fatt | The New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia | Raphael Arts | 1977 | Book | Y | ||
| Yong, Arthur | Moon Cakes and Meat Pies: The History, Art and Culture of Chinese Settlement in the City of Whittlesea | North Eastern Melbourne Chinese Association | 1999 | Book | Y | ||
| Yong, Arthur | Chinese Settlement in Whittlesea | Whittlesea Chinese Association | 2008 | Book | Y |