Language, A Key to Survival: Cantonese-English Phrasebooks in Australia
Item set
- Title of Collection
- Language, A Key to Survival: Cantonese-English Phrasebooks in Australia
- Subject
- Chinese language
- Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
- Gold mines and mining--History
- International trade
- Foreign workers, Chinese
- Category
- 1. Settlement
- 2. National boundaries
- Language
- Chinese
- English
- Description from source
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This web story explores how Chinese from the gold rush period onwards have used phrasebooks to help them find their way in Australia.
- Start date
- 1857
- Current holder
- Victorian Collections
- Access rights
- Digitised
- Physical format
- Books
- Photographs
- Keywords
- Gold miners
- Education