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'The Chinese Quarter'
Andrew Jakubowicz.
The Graphic newspaper's account of 1880 displays variety in western and eastern clothes and an orderliness to daily life among the establishments fronting the roads and laneways of the Chinese Quarter that alluded other reports.
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03 February 2009
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Transcript
'The Chinese Quarter'
If many reports were negative, public perspectives overall were mixed, even when racial vilification was at a peak. The Graphic newspaper's account of 1880 displays variety in western and eastern clothes and an orderliness to daily life among the establishments fronting the roads and laneways of the Chinese Quarter that alluded other reports.
Museum of Chinese Australian History
Item: 85.07.18
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