Almost 40,000 Chinese people came to Australia during the gold rush years, chasing dreams of fortune and a better life. This book explores their journey, daily life, and the challenges they faced on the goldfields.
Students will discover how the Chinese worked hard not only as miners but also as gardeners, storekeepers, and traders who shaped goldfields communities. They will also learn about the hardships: long treks such as the walk from Robe, anti-Chinese laws, discrimination, riots, and how the Chinese fought back with resilience and determination.
Covering topics like Gold Fever Hits Australia to Laws Keep Chinese Out, this engaging, accessible book brings history to life while encouraging readers to think about diversity, fairness, and Australia's multicultural past.
Chinese and Gold: The Chinese on the Australian Goldfields is Book 3 in the Chinese Australians series, written for upper primary and lower secondary school students.
Marji Hill runs her art career alongside her career as an author. She is a highly respected international author as well as a seasoned business executive, researcher and coach.Marji is passionate about promoting understanding between Australia's First Nationspeople and other Australians. The spirit of reconciliation was fostered in all her writings ever since she was a Research Fellow in Education at the AustralianInstitute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ( in Canberra.From 2008 to 2011, Marji was Deputy Chairperson of the Mosman Branch of Reconciliation Australia in Sydney. Following her Research Fellowship at AIATSIS in 1976 Marji, together with her late partner, Alex Barlow, produced more than seventy (80) books on all aspects of the First Nations people including the critical, annotated bibliography Black Australia.In 1989 she was the Project Coordinator and one of the researchers and writers of Australian Aboriginal Culture the official Australian Government publication on First Nations people.In 1988 Six Australian Battlefields was published by Angus and Robertson. A decade later it was re-published by Allen & Unwin as a paperback edition. Her nine-volume encyclopaedia, Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Australia's Aboriginal Peoples was published in 2000 and in 2009 she published The Apology: Saying Sorry To The Stolen Generations.Marji's more recent publications extend to self-improvementand self-help with books like Staying Young Growing Old and Inspired by Country a self-help book about painting with gouache.
