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Stories

Trevor Jack and Albert Yum at Gunnedah, early 1930s. (Private collection)Read and view stories about specific people, localities, sites, objects and collections relating to the Chinese contribution to regional New South Wales.

Where indicated, stories are in pdf format. Click here for more information on pdf format or to download the free Acrobat Reader.

Objects

Shoes owned by Alice Ling, early 1930s. (Oxley Museum, Wellington)Objects and their stories
(321kb pdf)

by Janis Wilton

Family Histories

Percy Young (Kwan Hong Kee), c1926Kwan clan & Kwong Sing stories

stories by Mr Kwan Hong Kee, Mr Stanley Herbert Young, Mr Harvey Young and Mr Derrick Yee


Fiction

Alice Wong, c1940'Coming Home'

by Kristal Yee


Oral Histories

Thomas Hoy LeeThomas Hoy Lee:
Remembering Stuart Town
(397kb pdf)


Research Processes

Gravestone of Chow JongReading Chinese Gravestones
(504 kb pdf)

by Doris Yau-Chong Jones


Sites

Wing Hing Long, c1900Wing Hing Long: from store to museum

by Janis Wilton

Janis Wilton interviewing Les Daniels, Deniliquin 1998Learning from Golden Threads
(133 kb pdf)

by Janis Wilton and Joe Eisenberg


Other Golden Threads stories are currently under development.
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