Fields of Research

Australian history
Cultural heritage management (incl. world heritage)
New Zealand history
Transnational history
Migration history

Research Objectives

Understanding Australia's past
Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology
Understanding New Zealand's past
Conserving the historic environment
Understanding Asia's past

Career Best Publications

Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia; Hong Kong University Press
Rewriting the history of Chinese families in nineteenth-century Australia; Australian Historical Studies
The People Inside; Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History

Research Publications

'Being Maori-Chinese: Mixed Identities' by Manying Ip
'He Would Be a Chinese Still': Negotiating Boundaries of Race, Culture and Identity in Late Nineteenth Century Australia; After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communists in Australia 1860-1940
'To his home at Jembaicumbene': women's cross-cultural encounters on a colonial goldfield; Migrant cross-cultural encounters in Asia and the Pacific
19 世纪新南威尔士殖民地的中国女性 [Chinese women in nineteenth-century New South Wales]; Quanqiu shi pinglun [Global History Review]
A journey of love: Agnes Breuer’s sojourn in 1930s China; Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World
A new perspective on Australia and China
Across the threshold: white women and Chinese hawkers in the white colonial imaginary; Hecate
Anglo-Chinese and the Politics of Overseas Travel from New South Wales, 1898 to 1925; Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance
Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance; Brill
Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies; Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies
Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies; Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies
Chinese women in colonial New South Wales: from absence to presence; Australian Journal of Biography and History
Circulations of Belonging: Chinese British Subjects in Australasia, 1880–1920; The Making and Remaking of Australasia: Mobility, Texts and ‘Southern Circulations
Crossing oceans and cultures; Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century
Exception or example? Ham Hop’s challenge to White Australia; Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia
How do you trace a family history when the births of girls aren't even recorded?
Introduction: Chinese Australian women, migration, and mobility; Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia
Journal of Chinese Australia; Journal of Chinese Australia
Journal of Chinese Australia; Journal of Chinese Australia
Journal of Chinese Overseas; Journal of Chinese Overseas
Landscapes of memory and forgetting: Indigo and Shek Quey Lee; Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies
Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia; Hong Kong University Press
Memory and meaning in the search for Chinese Australian families; Remembering migration: oral histories and heritage in Australia
Missing links: data stories from the archive of British settler colonial citizenship; Journal of World History
Picnics and politics
Potter v. Minahan: Chinese Australians, the law and belonging in White Australia; History Australia
Radio Interview
Rewriting the history of Chinese families in nineteenth-century Australia; Australian Historical Studies
The Chungking Legation: Australia's diplomatic mission in wartime China; Museum of Chinese Australian History
The People Inside; Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History
Writing Home from China: Charles Allen’s Transnational Childhood; Migrant Nation: Australian Culture, Society and Identity
‘I am nearly heartbroken about him’: stories of Australian mothers' separation from their ‘Chinese’ children; History Australia

Research Projects

Everyday Heritage; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Naturalised Chinese in the British Settler Colonial World; Australian National University (ANU)
Annotated bibliography (TMAG Chinese Migrant Experience project)

Research Candidate Supervision