Chinese Australian actor Christopher Chung takes on a lead romantic role in the new Netflix adaptation of My Brilliant Career.
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Chinese food heritage is diverse and vast, and embodies the distinct geographical and historical traces of various cultural identities.
Jay Chou’s 25 albums have sold more than 30 million copies – and the music video for his latest hit, Gold Rush Town, was filmed at Sovereign Hill.
Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs
A new survey shows Chinese-Australian voters will continue to back Labor by a wide margin, though some may be swinging back to the Liberals.
Red, as the platform is known for short, offers a more open space than WeChat for competing ideas to be heard.
Participating in the Australian democratic system is not straightforward for newcomers. New research finds Australia should invest more effort into ensuring new migrants understand the voting system.
One ‘no’ video was reposted more than 10,000 times by WeChat users, while a ‘yes’ video from the Victorian Labor Party was shared only 25 times.
New research shows Chinese-Australians believe Australian English-language media to be too negative about China and Chinese-Australians.
Adapted by playwright Anchuli Felicia King, this ‘Australian classic’ is darkly funny and subversively political.
Will a 600-year-old Chinese Buddhist sculpture change Australian history? The known history of Western Australia gives a much simpler explanation.
Peter Dutton on Saturday faces his first real-time electoral test in the Victorian seat of Aston, with the conditions on the track heavy going
Below the Line Episode 7
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In this episode of our election podcast Below the Line, our expert panel speak to a Chinese media expert about how the Chinese-Australian community is being courted in the campaign.
SBS’s new four part murder mystery examines Chinese experience on the Australian goldfields during the 1850s.
In 1901, there were almost 30,000 Chinese men in Australia but fewer than 500 women. Despite their small numbers, emerging research reveals surprising stories of Chinese Australian women’s lives.
From Cantonese sausage on the goldfields, to mid-century sweet and sour pork, to today’s delicate xiao long bao, Chinese food in Australia has come a long way.
Lindy Lee sees beauty in a moon drop, a speck of dust caught in a beam of light, and fragments of molten bronze. A new exhibition arcs over the entire trajectory of Lee’s career.
There are already disturbing reports of racism against Asian Australians. History shows this will get worse in a recession, unless our political leaders step in.
As the rhetoric around Chinese interference in Australia intensifies – most recently with the Gladys Liu allegations – Chinese-Australians have become ‘collateral damage’.
Even if only 130 Australians of non-Chinese heritage can speak Mandarin fluently, there are many more if you count those of Chinese heritage. And a level of fluency is not the only measure of success.
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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Australian History, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Chinese Studies, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of History & Director Future Regions Research Centre, Federation University Australia
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS:ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Archaeology (World Rock Art), School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southern Queensland
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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