2008
2 February
Celebrate Chinese New Year with Tony Ayres
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2007
9 December 2007
Trace of the brush:
Telling Chinese Australian histories through the
Harvest of Endurance scroll at the
National Museum of Australia
a talk and discussion led by
Megan Parnell
(Curator at the National Museum of Australia)
The Harvest of Endurance Scroll may be explored on-line at
http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/collection_interactives/harvest/harvest.htm
2 to 3.30 pm
History House
133 Macquarie Street
Sydney
Light refreshments will be served at 3.30 pm
Admission: $5 members, $10 non-members
AT 4 PM
THE FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE
CHINESE AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Admission to the AGM is free.
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15 to 22 September
History Council of NSW
15 September
Annual Lecture on
Chinese Australian History and Heritage
to be delivered by
Professor John Fitzgerald
[Professor of Asian Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne]
ON
CHINESE-AUSTRALIAN SURVIVAL STRATEGIES IN
THE WHITE AUSTRALIA ERA
5 PM TO 6 PM
HISTORY HOUSE
133 Macquarie Street, Sydney
COST: $20 per CAHS member, $25 per non-CAHS member, includes admission to
reception and book launch after the Annual Lecture
Bookings and enquiries to 0418 169 868
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
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Reception and Book Launch
The Honourable Henry Tsang, MLC
will launch
John Fitzgerald's
(University of NSW Press, 2007)
6 to 7.30 pm
History House
133 Macquarie Street, Sydney
The book (RRP 44.95) will be available for purchase at $40 (cash or cheque) or
$44 (Visa or Mastercard) after launch.
Professor Fitzgerald will be available after the launch
to sign books purchased
Free admission
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
Bookings and Enquiries to 0418 169 868
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ANNUAL DINNER
Enjoy a delicious special Chinese banquet
at
Quay Seafood Chinese Restaurant
2 Albert Street, Circular Quay, Sydney
8 to 10 pm
COST: $50 per CAHS member
$60 per non-CAHS member
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
Enquiries to 0418 169 868
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SPECIAL PACKAGE FOR 15 SEPTEMBER:
$100 (cheque)/$105 (credit card) per person for
Annual Lecture, Reception & Book Launch, Annual Dinner,
and one copy of Big White Lie
if booked by 10 September
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18 September
Uncle Arthur's Memories of Chinatown
Come wandering down Arthur Gar Lock Chang's memory lane
on the morning of 18 September 2007
Meet outside Emperor's Garden Restaurant
corner of Dixon and Hay Streets
at 10.15 am for a 10.30 departure.
Afterwards join Uncle Arthur for a delicious yumcha lunch
Cost: $10 per person plus $20 per person for optional lunch.
Bookings essential
Bookings and enquiries to 0418 169 868
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22 September 2007
Chinese Australian Historical Society Inc
and
Powerhouse Museum
present
150 YEARS ON:
THE LEGACIES OF WONG SAT AND AMELIA WONG
Mark the 150th anniversary of Wong Sat's arrival in Australia and explore the legacies of family, letters, land and the general store with his great granddaughter, Dawn Wong
THEN
Join us for a special tour of the Powerhouse Museum exhibition "What's In Store?: A History of Shopping from 1880-1930" following commentary from Dr Ian Hoskins, original curator of the exhibition and now North Sydney Council Historian, on how and why this Chinese family became a focus of the exhibition
1.45 TO 4.30 PM
TARGET THEATRE, POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 Harris Street, Ultimo
Cost: $20 CAHS members/$25 non-members/$15 concession
(includes Museum entry and afternoon tea)
Bookings essential
Enquiries to 0412 550 199
Flyers with further details of CAHS events and their venues
during History Week:
For 15 September events click here
For September 15 venues click kere
For Uncle Arthur's Tour click here
For Wong Sat Sesquicentennial click here
For Wong Sat venue click here
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AUGUST
4 to
12 August
National Family History Week
Celebrate
National Family History Week
with an afternoon exploring Chinese Australian Family History
organized by
Kogarah Library & Cultural Centre
1 pm
to 4.30 pm,
Saturday 4 August 2007
Kogarah Library & Cultural Centre
Kogarah Town Square
Shirley Fitzgerald, City of Sydney Historian:
"The History of the Chinese in Sydney".
Henry Chan, Secretary of CAHS: "Researching
the Chinese Skeleton lurking in your Australian Family Cupboard".
Dawn Wong, Acting President of CAHS: "Wong
Sat Family: From Fiction to Facts, 150 years after the arrival
of Wong Sat in Australia".
Paul Kwok, descendant of one of the Chinese
Australian founders of the Wing On department store chain in
China: "The Gocks of Chung Shan County".
His wife Maunie Kwok will talk about her attempts
to research the history of her English family who lived and
worked in China during its turbulent first half of the twentieth
century.
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
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July Event
The
Chinese Australian Historical Society Inc
Invites
to you participate in a
Members'
Forum
to be held
1.45pm to 4.00 pm
Saturday, 21 July 2007
at
History House
133 Macquarie Street, Sydney
[click for venue details]
Hear from our members:
Dr Kate Bagnall,
on home villages in China
Vivienne Lock Lee, on building a family archive
Jeanne Eve, on telling the story for someone else
and then take
part in an open forum to discuss your
own family history research challenges and triumphs
Bookings essential
Afternoon tea provided
Admission $10 per head
Enquiries and bookings to Dawn Wong,
edwong@bigpond.net.au or 0412 550199
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the flyer click here
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MAY EVENTS
Getting down to business
State Records of NSW and the
Royal Australian Historical Society
invite you to
a seminar on
23 May 2007
to learn about the diverse community groups that have contributed
to the State's history and character through their various business
enterprises. There will be talks by representatives from the
Chinese, Croatian and Lebanese communities in NSW. They will
be joined by speakers from State Records, National Archives
of Australia, Historic Houses Trust of Australia and the City
of Sydney archives.
This event is part of Information Awareness Month.
Time: 10.00 - 3.00
Venue: History House Macquarie Street, Sydney
Cost: $16.50 (includes lunch and morning tea)
CAHS members please note that Mr C. C. Lee will be speaking
about the Chinese department stores started by Sydney Chinese
business families (Kwok, Mar, Lee and Choy) in China in the
early twentieth century.
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Join a preliminary workshop
for Chinese women interested in writing their life stories in
English or Chinese.
Ultimo Community Centre
Cnr William Henry St and Bulwarra Rd
Saturday 26 May, from
2pm to 4 pm
The Chinese Australian Historical Society Inc
in conjunction with the Jessie Street National Women Library
is holding a meeting to set up a workshop for Chinese women
in Sydney interested in writing their life stories in English
or Chinese. This project and its workshops will play a critical
part in enabling such stories to be retained by the community
both now and in the future.
It is anticipated that the formation of a project
committee would be organised from the preliminary workshop.
Anyone interested is invited to attend and contribute their
ideas.
Refreshments will be served and a gold coin
donation would be appreciated.
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MARCH
EVENTS
National
Trust Heritage Festival
3 - 18 March 2007
Places in Context: Natural & Cultural Landscapes
3
March
Remembering
Sydney's Chinatown
Eating Places
Four well known Sydney
Chinese personalities
remember and reflect on Chinese food and eating places
in Sydney since the early 1940s.
First Floor Dining Room
Golden Century Seafood Restaurant
393-399 Sussex Street
Chinatown
Saturday, 3 March 2007
Lunch at 12 noon
Talks from 2 pm to 4.30 pm
Speakers:
Robert Ho, OAM, JP,
former City of Sydney Councillor,
and Master Chinese Chef and Restaurateur
Arthur Gar Lock Chang, supplier of prawns to
Sydney Chinese restaurants in the 1950s and 1960s
King Fong, OAM, JP, whose grocery firm, Say
Tin Fong & Co., provisioned many Chinese restaurants in
Sydney
Hon Helen Sham-Ho, retired Member of the NSW
Legislative Council, presents the memories of a diner.
10
March
Tracking
the Dragon:
Chinese Heritage Places in
Central
Western New South Wales
An illustrated talk
by Barbara Hickson,
Architect and Heritage
Consultant, Mudgee
Ms Hickson conducted a major
survey of Chinese heritage places in Central Western New South
Wales for
the NSW Heritage Office and the NSW Chinese Australian Cultural
Heritage Project (CACH-NSW).
She has located and documented over sixty heritage sites and
places which have been listed in the
NSW Chinese State Heritage Inventory and will appear on the
National Database of Chinese Australian Heritage.
HISTORY HOUSE
133 MACQUARIE STREET
SATURDAY, 10 MARCH 2007
2 TO 5 PM
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11
March
Chinese
Australian Historical Society Inc
in association with
The UTS Institute for International Studies and
Pathfinder Press
presents
a panel discussion and book launch
Our
History Is Still Being Written:
The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution
A little-known but important chapter of Chinese emigrant
history is told through interviews with Armando Choy, Gustavo
Chui, and Moises Sio Wong, three Chinese-Cubans who became generals
in Cuba's revolution. In Pathfinder Press's new title Our
History Is Still being Written, the three men discuss their
roles in the 1959 Cuban revolution and talk about what a revolution
can accomplish and Cuba's role in the world today.
Panel discussion with:
Martin
Koppel, Pathfinder Press, who took part
in interviewing the Chinese-Cuban Generals.
Professor David Goodman, Deputy
Vice-Chancellor (international), University of Technology Sydney
Dr. Mabel Lee, University of Sydney,
translator of Gao Xingjian
Arthur Gar Lock Chang, respected
elder in the Sydney Chinese community, longtime member of the
Chinese Youth League and the Chinese Seamen's Union
Dr. Adrian Hearn, research fellow
on China-Latin America relations, Institute for International
Studies, UTS.
Sunday,
11 March 2 pm
Room 430 Level 6 Building 10, University of Technology Sydney
(use lifts on Wattle St off Broadway)
Refreshments 2pm followed by program 2.30pm
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MARCH
31
YOU ARE
INVITED TO
A CELEBRATION
LUNCH
TO HONOUR
Arthur Gar Lock Chang
on his Eighty-Fifth birthday
King Moo Fong
on the Sixty-First anniversary
of his arrival in Sydney
AND
TO CONGRATULATE
William Chan
Thomas Cheong
Henry Pan
Xi May Zhen
on their
2007 NSW Premier's Chinese Community Service Awards
And with
Special Guest
Stepan Kerkyasharian AM
Chairperson, Community Relations Commission for a multicultural
NSW
11.30
for 12 noon
Saturday, 31 March 2007
CityMark
Marigold Restaurant
VIP Room, 4th Level,
683-689 George Street, Sydney
COST:
$25 pp CAHS members; $30 pp others
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2006
SUNDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2006
CAHS Events
at the
Chinese Youth League
10 Dixon Street
Sydney
AT 2 PM:
The Fourth
CAHS Annual Lecture
will be delivered by
Associate
Professor Regina Ganter
Griffith University
on
The
Chinese in Australian History:
A Perspective from Northern Australia
ADMISSION: CAHS
members, $5 pp; others, $10 pp.
AFTER
THE LECTURE
Professor Ann McGrath
Professor of History and Director of the Australian Centre for
Indigenous History
Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National
University
WILL LAUNCH THE NEW BOOK BY REGINA GANTER
Mixed Relations; Asian and Aboriginal
Contact in North Australia.
University of Western Australia Press,
2006
The book will be available for purchase
after the launch at $54.95 per copy.
The book will also be available, the day after the launch, at
$54.95 per copy plus postage and handling from
Echo Point Press, (click
here).
ADMISSION TO THE
LAUNCH ONLY IS FREE
For an invitation
to the Launch click here.
AT 4 PM
THE FOUTH ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING OF THE
CHINESE AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Admission to the AGM is free.
FOR THE NOTICE OF THE
AGM, THE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS, AND THE NOMINATION FORM
click here.
A copy of the CAHS Consitution
is available by clicking here.
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Saturday,
16 September
Spend
a Spring Weekend in the Blue Mountains and Learn About
THE
CHINESE IN BLUE MOUNTAINS HISTORY
For details, programme, and booking
information, click the here.
For information on the
venue and how to get there, click here.
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Monday,
18 September,
and
Friday, 22 September
KING
FONG'S CHINATOWN HERITAGE WALKING TOURS
For details and booking
information click the here.
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Saturday,
23 September
Workshop
on Using Chinese Language Sources to
Find Your Place in Chinese Australian History
For details, programme,
and booking information click the
here.
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Who Do
We Think We Are?
A Forum on the Cultural Identity
Of Young Australians
Come and join a diverse
group of young Australians
to discuss issues surrounding identity and the question of
"Australian values".
Includes talks and workshops
run by
Dr Carole Tan, cultural studies academic;
Mr Ka-Ho Cheung, musician from successful Australian band The
Herd;
Ms My Le Thi, well-known Vietnamese-born visual artist;
and Dr Hsu-Ming Teo, well published novelist.
History House
133 Macquarie Street, Sydney
on
Saturday, 1 July 2006
10am to 2:30pm
COST: $25 non-members; $20 members of
CAHS
Lunch and refreshments included
Bookings essential. For further information contact Nikki on
0416 978 535.
For details and booking information
click the here.
For the programme click
here.
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Annual
Honouring
the Winners of the
2006 NSW Premier's Chinese Community Service Awards
Mr William
Ho
Mr Stanley Hunt, OAM
Mr C.C. Lee
Ms Katrina Banh
With
Guest of Honour: Mr Stepan Kerkyasharian, AM. , Chairperson,
Community Relations Commission
At a
lunch to be held at:
CityMark Marigold Restaurant
VIP Room, 4th Level,
683-689 George Street, Sydney
On
Sunday, 28 May 2006,
11:30am for 12 noon
COST:
$20 per person for members / $25 per person for non-members
Enquiries to Nikki Loong, 0416 978 535 / King
Fong 9452 3761
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CACH-NSW
Chinese Australian Historical
Society Inc.
in conjunction with the
National Trust
and the
City of Sydney
Chinese Market Gardens of NSW
Alexandria Town Hall,
73 Garden St, Alexandria
8 April 2006 10am - 4pm
A workshop with a series of talks by archaeologists,
historians and others on the role that Chinese market
gardens have played in our economy over the past 150 years.
Refreshment and a light lunch provided.
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Saturday,
4 February 2006
Come
and welcome the
Year of the Dog
in the Dining Room of the Mandarin Club,
corner of Goulburn and Pitt Streets, Sydney.
There
will be good food,
an exhibition, friendship, a lot of laughter and fun, as well
as door prizes, raffles, and a guessing competion with some
great prizes,
from 12 noon to 2.30 pm.
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2005
