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    Chinese from Hong Kong, connected with the Christian Church
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    Exterior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900, c. 1900, courtesy of Golden Threads project.
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    Father James Cheong, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Fr Cheong after a high mass at which Reginald Halse, bishop of the Riverina, presided, c.1930, c. 1930, courtesy of St Peter's Eastern Hill Church archive.
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    Fr Cheong with other clerical staff at St Peter's, c.1925, c. 1925, courtesy of St Peter's Eastern Hill Church archive.
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    Fr James Cheong as a retreat conductor, St George's College, Perth, Western Australia, c 1935, c. 1935, courtesy of St Peter's Eastern Hill Church archive.
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    Interior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900, c. 1900, courtesy of Golden Threads project.
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    James and Benjamin Cheong with two unidentified ministers, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    James Cheong with unidentified group including a nun, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Monica Anna Tankey, Sister Mary Angela of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan (Australia), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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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

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
  • 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

  • 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

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
  • Johnstone, S.M., Church Missionary Society in Australia and Tasmania, Geo. B. Philip & Son, Sydney, 1925. Details
  • Loh, Morag, 'Chinese', in Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 131-132. Details
  • Scott, Joan, Celestial Sojourn: The Chinese on the Tinfields of North East Tasmania, St Helens History Room Association, St Helens, 1997. Details

Images

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Chinese from Hong Kong, connected with the Christian Church
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Photograph
Place
Australia?
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Christian Chinese Union of Victoria
Type
Photograph
Date
1903
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Exterior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Narrandera
Details
Title
Father James Cheong
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Fr Cheong after a high mass at which Reginald Halse, bishop of the Riverina, presided, c.1930
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1930
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Fr Cheong with other clerical staff at St Peter's, c.1925
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1925
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Fr James Cheong as a retreat conductor, St George's College, Perth, Western Australia, c 1935
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1935
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth
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Title
Interior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1890 - 1920?
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Narrandera
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Title
James and Benjamin Cheong with two unidentified ministers
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Photograph
Details
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James Cheong with unidentified group including a nun
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Monica Anna Tankey, Sister Mary Angela of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan (Australia)
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia?
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'My father and fellow workers with ladies of the local Church who he arranged to give English classes.' Tumut 1890s
Type
Photograph
Date
1890s
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Tumut
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Palm Sunday gathering outside a church
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Photograph
Date
1927?
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Title
Presbyterian Chinese Mission School Teachers Meeting, Perth
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Photograph
Date
1898
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth
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School children in costume
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Sister Mary Stanislaus (Elizabeth Tankey) of the Blessed Sacrament from the Sisters of Joseph of Nazareth
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902
Place
New Zealand
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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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St. Philip's Church School pupils - Sydney, NSW
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Photograph
Date
1880 - 1940
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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The celebration of the silver jubilee of Fr Cheong's ordination, 21 December 1931
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Photograph
Date
c. 1931
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Tue Gee Chinn and friends of the Church
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Photograph
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Wesleyan Chinese Mission Victoria montage
Type
Photograph
Date
1883
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Wesleyan Chinese Sunday School, Western Australia
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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