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打運華僑運動會甲乙兩隊隊員合照 Group photo of Chinese sporting team in Darwin , courtesy of Chinese Nationalist Party of Australasia (Sydney).
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打運華僑運動會甲乙兩隊隊員合照 Group photos of Chinese sporting team in Darwin , courtesy of Chinese Nationalist Party of Australasia (Sydney).
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東方體育會征澳足球隊與國民黨委員團體合照 A group photograph of the Chinese Soccer team of the Eastern Athletic Association (Hong Kong) and KMT committee members , 1953, by unknown , courtesy of Chinese Nationalist Party of Australasia (Sydney).
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英華網球隊主要臺柱合影 Members of Yin Wah tennis club , courtesy of Chinese Nationalist Party of Australasia (Sydney).
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Group (including Benjamin Cheong) in tennis whites, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Joshua Lewis (Hughey) Shean, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Cecil [?] Lew Ton, aged 18 in Young Chinese League, c. 1936, courtesy of S. Millard (private hands).
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Chinese Athletic Association, c. 1922 - c. 1923, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Group portrait on grass badminton court, c. 1922 - c. 1923, courtesy of E. Leong (private hands).
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Croydon cricket team, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Archival Collections

State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library

Quong Tart and family papers (1831-1940), ML MSS 5094; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details

Published Resources

Books

Travers, Robert, Australian Mandarin: The Life and Times of Quong Tart, Kangaroo Press, New South Wales, 1981. Details

Book Sections

Honey, Andrew, 'Sport, immigration restriction and race: The operation of the White Australia policy', in Cashman, Richard; John, O'Hara; Honey, Andrew (ed.), Sport in the National Imagination: Australian Sport in the Federation Decades, Walla Walla Press with the Centre for Olympic Studies, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, pp. 26-46. Details
Hughes, Anthony, 'Sporting federations: The impact of Federation on sports governance', in Cashman, Richard; John, O'Hara; Honey, Andrew (ed.), Sport in the National Imagination: Australian Sport in the Federation Decades, Walla Walla Press with the Centre for Olympic Studies, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, pp. 118-32. Details
Martinez, Julia, 'Separatism and solidarity: Chinese and Aboriginal Sporting connections', in Edwards, Penny and Shen, Yuanfang (eds), Lost in Whitewash: Aboriginal-Chinese Encounters from Federation to Reconciliation, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, pp. 103-114. Details
On, Robyn, 'The Chung Wah Society: Past & Present', in Glenys Dimond (ed.), Sweet and Sour: Experiences of Chinese Families in the Northern Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1996, pp. 39-49. Details

Journal Articles

Hess, Rob, 'A mania for bicycles: The impact of cycling on Australian Rules Football', Sporting Traditions, vol. 14, no. 2, 1998, pp. 3-24. Details
Hess, Rob, ''A death blow to the White Australia Policy': Australian Rules football and Chinese communities in Victoria, 1892-1908', After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 (Otherland Literary Journal), vol. 9, 2004, pp. 89-106. Details

Newspaper Articles

'Quong Tart, Anglo-Mongolian cricketer [ illustrated]', Bulletin, 9 June 1883, p. 14. Details
'The Sydney Bicycle Club sports at the Association grounds', Australian Town and Country Journal, 16 August, p. 339. Details

Online Resources

Lea-Scarlett, E.J., Mei Quong Tart (1850 - 1903), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050268b.htm. Details
Osmond, Gary, Kwok Chun Hang, swimmer: Resesarching Chinese Australian sport history through digitised newspapers, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Special issue: 'Sources, Languages and Approaches in Chinese Australian History' edited by Bagnall, Kate and Couchman, Sophie, vol. 6, 2013, 64-74 pp, http://www.chl.anu.edu.au/publications/csds/csds2013/csds2013_07.pdf. Details
Tart, Margaret, The Life of Quong Tart: Or how a Foreigner Succeeded in a British Community, W. M. Maclardy, Sydney, 1911, http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/fed0048. Details

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'St Vincent fairings', Melbourne Punch, 6 April, pp. 37, 335-336. Details
'[unidentified article]', Australasian Post, 23 October 1947. Details
'China Blue': The Wally Koochew Story, http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/koochew.htm. Details
Dimond, Glenys (ed.), Sweet and Sour: Experiences of Chinese Families in the Northern Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1996. Details
Ganter, Regina, Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 2006. Details
Giese, Diana, Beyond Chinatown: Changing Perspectives on the Top End Chinese Experience, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1995. Details

Images

Title: Chinese and Australian soccer players chasing ball
Type: Photograph
Date: 19231
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Chinese player heads soccer ball, Hobart
Type: Photograph
Date: 1923
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Hobart; Details

Title: Chinese soccer team (first) in Darwin
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Chinese soccer team (second) in Darwin
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Eastern Athletic Association (Hong Kong) Chinese soccer team with KMT committee members.
Type: Photograph
Date: 1953; Details

Title: Fourteen members of the Yin Wah tennis club in their party dress
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Group (including Benjamin Cheong) in tennis whites (1)
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Joshua Lewis (Hughey) Shean
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Tennis party at Claisebrook Road Tennis Courts, 1939
Type: Photograph
Date: 1939
Place: Australia - Western Australia - Perth; Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese playing tug-a-war in the gaol yard in Burketown
Type: Photograph
Date: 1900
Place: Australia - Queensland - Burketown; Details

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Title: Buffalos football team
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Cavenagh streetscape with two men on bicycles and other men
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cecil [?] Lew Ton, aged 18 in Young Chinese League
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1936
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Chinese Athletic Association
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1922 - c. 1923
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Chinese football team, St Vincent's Bazaar
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 8 April 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne; Details

Title: Chinn family and friends on grass badminton court
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1922 - c. 1923
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Repository: E. Leong (private hands); Details

Title: Collection of pictures from a picnic in Aspendale Park
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 7 February 1905 - c. 18 February 1905
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Aspendale; Details

Title: Croydon cricket team
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Darwin Chinese Association Soccer Team
Type: Photograph
Date: 1930 - 1961
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Darwin Chinese Recreation Club Soccer Team, 1923
Type: Photograph
Date: 1923
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Darwin soccer team
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory; Details

Title: Four unidentified couples playing tennis
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: George Ringold Artso and the Warrnambool Physical Culture Club
Type: Photograph
Date: 1910s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Warrnambool; Details

Title: George Ringold Artso and the Warrnambool Rovers Football Club
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1912
Place: Australia - Victoria - Warrnambool; Details

Title: Group (including Benjamin Cheong) in tennis whites (2)
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Group portrait of the Paynesville Football Team with George and Jack Ah Yee (14 years)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1925
Place: Australia - Victoria - Paynesville; Details

Title: Jan O'Hoy, Ming Balintong and friend holding 1955 pennants
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1960
Place: Australia - Victoria?; Details

Title: Pine Creek football club
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1945
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek; Details

Title: Quong Tart, League of Wheelmen Starter, with Mr Bagnall
Type: Photograph
Date: 1890? - 1903?
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Selina Hassan in bathing costume
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Soccer match
Type: Photograph
Date: 1 January 1924
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade; Details

Title: Unidentified Cheong male family member posed on tennis court [?]
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Unidentified male Cheong family member holding tennis racket (1)
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Unidentified male Cheong family member on a horse
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Victoria?; Details

Title: Unidentified male Cheong family member on a horse
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Unidentified male Cheong family member with tennis racket
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Vesty's premiers, 1921-1922
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1921 - c. 1922
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Vestys, premiers 1921-1922
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)?; Details

Title: Weight lifter from Taiwan
Type: Photograph
Date: 1950s - 1960s
Place: Australia?; Details

Title: Whay family cricket match
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920s - 1930s; Details

Title: William Nean
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Young Chinese League football team in the 1950s
Type: Photograph
Date: 1950s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Young Chinese League football team, 1947
Type: Photograph
Date: 1947
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street; Details

Title: Young Chinese League sports team
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1947
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Young Chinese League women's netball team, late 1940's
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1945 - c. 1949
Place: Australia - Victoria?; Details

Sources used to compile this entry: Lea-Scarlett, E.J., Mei Quong Tart (1850 - 1903), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050268b.htm.

Created: 19 March 2004, Last modified: 19 July 2005