The Kong Meng legacy
The Kong Meng legacy

Author: B. T. O’Brien

Publisher: Australian Self Publishing Group

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1925152464

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Opium, a shipwreck, lost treasure and a murder mystery: The Kong Meng Legacy is a historical thriller with the lot. Selina Boland is a devastatingly pretty Irish orphan. Horatio Lane-Poole is a lazy bully; his father is about to cut him off and Horatio needs to get rich quick - at any cost. Kong Meng is a wealthy merchant and headman of a secret society. He has vowed to avenge the death of his brother. Their three lives will collide in Melbourne during the Gold Rush. Meanwhile, back in present, it is Spring Carnival. As most of Melbourne prepares to slough off winter and get ready for summer, decisions made by Selina, Kong Meng and Horatio in the 1850s begin to have an impact: Nora, a talented history student starts to ask difficult questions. Aravind, a Tamil refugee finds something that could change accepted “truths” about Australian history. Winston, a corrupt businessman and Chin a shady character from Melbourne’s “underbelly” don’t care about history - they just want to shore up their future, regardless of the consequences.

Chinese Australians
Chinese Australians

Author: Sophie Couchman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-01-27

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9004288554

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In Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance key scholars explore how Chinese Australians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced the communities in which they lived on a civic or individual level. With a focus on the motivations and aspirations of their subjects, the authors draw on biography, world history, case law, newspapers and immigration case files to investigate the political worlds of Chinese Australians. The book also introduces current literature and thinking about the history of the Chinese in Australia and includes a postscript that reflects on the importance of historical analysis to current day political science.

Inheriting Tradition
Inheriting Tradition

Author: Kam Louie

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The prominent philosopher Feng Youlan in the late 1950s devised an 'abstract inheritance method' with which he sought to salvage traditional thought. The debates over this method and what it entailed lasted until the Cultural Revolution. This book is an examination of those debates, and therepercussions arising from them in the discussions on classical Chinese philosophy.