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    Altar at Chinese temple at Ironbark, Bendigo, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Ceremonies at the Chinese Josshouse, Emerald-Hill', 1875, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Chinese mortuary chapel, Joss House, Emerald Hill', 7 July 1875, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Chinese temple at Ironbark (near Bendigo), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Atherton Joss House, c. 1903 - c. 1910, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Chinese festival, Darwin, 1922, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
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    Chinese procession., 1920s, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese Joss House in Atherton, Queensland, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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    Altar in the Chinese Temple, 1915 - 1930, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Destruction of Chinese Mission Hall in Townsville caused by Cyclone 'Leonta', 1903, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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Archival Collections

State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library

  • Papers of E.D.W.S. Donnison, with photographs and newscuttings connected with her son Laurence Donnison, 1870 - 1964, ML MSS 890/3; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details

Published Resources

Books

  • Ah Ket, Toylaan, Chinese Religious Practice in Sydney: Changes in Traditions in the 20th Century Resulting from encounter with Australian culture and Chritianity, Chinese Museum, Melbourne, 1999. Details
  • Stephen, Ann, The Lions of Retreat Street: A Chinese Temple in Inner Sydney, Powerhouse Publishing and Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1997. Details

Journal Articles

  • Austin, Denise A., 'Citizens of heaven: Overseas Chinese christians during Australian federation', After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 (Otherland Literary Journal), vol. 9, 2004, pp. 75-88. Details
  • Kuo, Mei-fen, 'Confucian heritage, public narratives and community politics of Chinese Australians at the beginning of the twentieth century', Journal of Chinese Overseas, vol. 9, no. 2, 2013, pp. 212-244. Details
  • Lim, Gladys, 'The Chinese in Alexandria New South Wales and the Yiu Ming Temple', Locality, Centre for Community History, University of NSW, vol. 11, no. 2, 2001, pp. 39-40. Details
  • Phillips, Walter, 'Seeking souls in the diggings: Christian missions to the Chinese on the Victorian goldfields', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 72, no. 1 & 2, 2001, pp. 86-104. Details

Theses

  • Allen, Margaret T. (Toylaan Ah Ket), 'Chinese religion, Sydney, NSW in the 20th century: Changes resulting from encounter with Australian culture and christianity', BA (hons) Thesis, Department of Religious Studies, University of Sydney, 1981. Details
  • Austin, Denise A, ''Kingdom-minded' people: Christian identity and the contributions of Chinese business Christians', PhD thesis, Department of History, School of History, Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of Queensland, 2005. Details
  • Welch, Ian H, 'Pariahs and outcasts: Christian missions to the Chinese in Victoria in the nineteenth century', MA thesis, Monash University, 1980. Details

Online Resources

See also

  • Ah Ket, Toylaan, 'Confucian to Christian but always Chinese: Chinese religious practice in Sydney, 1880-1980', in Kee Pookong, Ho Chooi-hon, Paul Macgregor & Gary Presland (ed.), Chinese in Oceania, Association for the Study of the Chinese and their Descendants in Australasia and the Pacific Islands; Chinese Museum; Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 58-64. Details
  • Bruce, Robert, '[illustration: 'Chinese rites at the graves of their countrymen']', Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers, 10 September. Details
  • Johnstone, S.M., Church Missionary Society in Australia and Tasmania, Geo. B. Philip & Son, Sydney, 1925. Details

Images

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Altar at Chinese temple in Ironbark (Bendigo)
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst) - Ironbark
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Bible Lessons with the Chinese in Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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'Ceremonies at the Chinese Josshouse, Emerald-Hill'
Type
Illustration
Date
1875
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne
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Title
'Chinese mortuary chapel, Joss House, Emerald Hill'
Type
Illustration
Date
7 July 1875
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne
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Title
Chinese temple at Ironbark (near Bendigo)
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst) - Ironbark
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See also

Title
Altar in Darwin temple
Type
Photograph
Date
1941
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Altar in Darwin's temple
Type
Photograph
Date
1941
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Ancestral altar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Ancestral tablets
Type
Photograph
Date
1920? - ?
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Ancestral tablets in Darwin's temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1915
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Atherton Joss House
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1903 - c. 1910
Place
Australia - Queensland - Atherton
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Title
Bringing the dragon (or lion?) out of a Chinese temple at New Years Festival
Type
Photograph
Date
1922
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Castlemaine temple
Type
Photograph
Date
1880s - 1960s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Castlemaine
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Title
Celebration of the Goddess Chui-Lau Kwoon's birthday outside Man Fong Lau's
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Chinese Joss House in Atherton, Queensland
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland - Atherton
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Chinese temple, Atherton, c.1911
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Photograph
Date
c. 1911
Place
Australia - Queensland - Atherton
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Chinese temple, Innisfail, early 1900s?
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1890 - c. 1910
Place
Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton)
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Darwin temple altar
Type
Photograph
Date
1915 - 1930
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Darwin's temple altar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Darwin's temple altar against corrogated iron wall
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Destruction of Chinese Mission Hall in Townsville caused by Cyclone 'Leonta', 1903
Type
Photograph
Date
1903
Place
Australia - Queensland - Townsville
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Title
Detail of temple altar
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1900
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Entrance to Cairns temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Queensland - Cairns
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Entrance to Darwin's temple
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Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Entrance to principal Joss house, Prayer furnace at left
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Entrance, fisherman's temple with prayer furnace
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach
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Exterior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Narrandera
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Title
Father James Cheong
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Photograph
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Fisherman's temple and residences
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach
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Grave with food offerings, including a roast pig
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Interior of Darwin temple
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Interior of Darwin temple showing detail of altar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1922
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Interior of Darwin's temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1920 - c. 1924
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Interior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1890 - 1920?
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Narrandera
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Interior ornament, Chinese temple, Darwin
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Photograph
Date
1922
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
James and Benjamin Cheong with two unidentified ministers
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Photograph
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James Cheong with unidentified group including a nun
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Photograph
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Title
Mah Buk infront of Darwin bronze fretted temple doors
Type
Photograph
Date
1 October 1942
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Methodist Church, Chinese and buffalos
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Knuckey Street
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Title
Painted portrait of unidentified man in Darwin's temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1915
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Palanquin used in New Year ceremonies inside Chinese temple, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
1922
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Palm Sunday gathering outside a church
Type
Photograph
Date
1927?
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Title
Pine Creek temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Presbyterian Chinese Mission School Teachers Meeting, Perth
Type
Photograph
Date
1898
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth
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Rear of Chinese temple in Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1895
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Side view of Darwin temple
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Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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St David's Presbyterian Church Chinese Sunday School, Albury
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Albury
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Title
Temple idol
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1 January 1936
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Temple idol
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s - ?
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Two unidentified children on beach with fisherman's temple behind
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1925
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach
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Two unidentified school boys on either side of an altar to Confucius
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 16 February 1910 - c. 17 February 1910
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Unidentified class of adult males at Sunday school
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Tumut
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Unidentified guilded idol in Darwin Chinese Temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1922
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Unidentified man sitting in temple
Type
Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Created: 19 May 2003, Last modified: 22 September 2005