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• W201359573 abstract "The Gold Rush is often constructed as a nation building event in Australia. The Eureka Stockade, for instance, is widely remembered as the ‘birthplace’ of the Australian nation when mainly White miners forged democracy on the battlefields of Bakery Hill. While the White miner takes his place alongside the Gallipoli digger and the farmer within dominant representations of Australian national identity, few scholars have examined the cultural and historical significance of Chinese miners in Australian nation building discourses. In most histories of the Gold Rush, Chinese miners only feature as supporting actors in a hegemonic White Australian narrative of nation building. However, for many Chinese Australians, Chinese miners figure prominently as founders and forefathers. The questions posed in the thesis are: what is the significance of the Gold Rush to Chinese Australians and how might Gold Rush histories address Chinese Australians as nation builders? My thesis argues that the mining museum offers an important site for examining the cultural and historical significance of the Gold Rush to Chinese Australians. Using close readings of key Australian mining museums’ historical interpretations, interviews with relevant curators and directors, and a critical analysis of broader cultural discourses of the Gold Rush, the thesis investigates the curatorial strategies and rationales involved in constructing the Gold Rush as a Chinese Australian nation building event. I bring to bear a corpus of theoretical frameworks from critical race and Whiteness studies, cultural studies, Chinese diaspora studies, and museum studies to reveal three narratives of Chinese Australian belonging in the mining museum: the historical injuries narrative, the contribution narrative, and the Chinese diasporic narrative. The three narratives address Chinese Australians in specific ways. The historical injuries narrative addresses Chinese Australians as subjects who overcame racism during the Gold Rush. In the contribution narrative Chinese miners are celebrated for their economic and social contributions to nation building. And the Chinese diasporic narrative addresses Chinese Australians as Chinese diasporic subjects. These three narratives demonstrate the historical significance of the Gold Rush to Chinese Australians and they construct a chronology of Chinese Australian belonging beginning with the arrival of Chinese miners during the Gold Rush, followed by their experiences on the goldfields, before ending with Chinese Australians in White Australia in the early twentieth century. These three narratives, however, are highly fraught representations of Chinese Australian belonging. The historical injuries narrative suggests that Chinese Australians must overcome past racism in order to experience true national belonging in Australia. The contribution narrative relies on essentialised notions of Chinese hard work and resilience, and the Chinese diasporic narrative implies that Chinese Australians belong in China and not Australia. By examining these three narratives and exploring how they construct Chinese Australian identity, the thesis argues that the Gold Rush is a foundational, but problematic event in the history of Chinese Australian belonging. I argue that even though these three narratives belie dominant representations of the Gold Rush as a White Australian nation building event, Chinese Australians have been both complicit with and resistant towards the development of a White Australia. The thesis concludes that these three narratives explain why the Gold Rush is a significant event for many Chinese Australians." @default.
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• W201359573 title "Belonging in the mining museum: an examination of Chinese Australian identity and belonging in discourses of the Gold Rush" @default.
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