Kate Bagnall

Books

The Chungking Legation: 
Australia’s Diplomatic Mission in Wartime China, Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade and the Chinese Museum, Canberra and Melbourne, 2015.

(Co-edited with Sophie Couchman) Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance, Brill, Leiden, 2015.

Edited collections

‘Chinese Australians: Politics, engagement and activism’, special issue of the Journal of Chinese Overseas, November 2013 (with Sophie Couchman).

‘Sources, language and approaches in Chinese Australian history’, special issue of Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, vol. 6, July 2013 (with Sophie Couchman).

Journal articles

‘Potter v. Minahan: Chinese Australians, the law and belonging in White Australia’, History Australia, vol. 15, no. 3, 2018, pp. 458–74 DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2018.1485503.

‘Landscapes of memory and forgetting: Indigo and Shek Quey Lee’, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, vol. 6, July 2013, pp. 7–24 (pdf, 4.4mb).

‘Rewriting the history of Chinese families in nineteenth-century Australia’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 62–77.

‘“He would be a Chinese still”: Negotiating boundaries of race, culture and identity in late nineteenth-century Australia’, in Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor (eds), After the Rush: Regulation, Participation, and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860–1940 – Otherland Literary Journal, no. 9, 2004, pp. 153–70.

‘“I am nearly heartbroken about him”: Stories of Australian mothers’ separation from their “Chinese” children’, History Australia, vol. 1, no. 1, December 2003, pp. 30–40.

‘Across the threshold: White women and Chinese men in the White colonial imaginary’, Hecate, vol. 28, no. 2, 2002, pp. 9–29.

Book chapters

(with Tim Sherratt): ‘The people inside’, in Kevin Kee and Timothy Compeau (ed.), Seeing the Past: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History, University of Michigan Press, 2019, DOI: 10.3998/mpub.9964786.

‘Writing home from China: Charles Allen’s transnational childhood’, in Paul Longley Arthur (ed.), Migrant Lives: Australian Culture, Society and Identity, Anthem Press, London, 2018.

‘ “To his home at Jembaicumbene”: Women’s cross-cultural encounters on a colonial goldfield’, in Jacqueline Leckie, Angela McCarthy and Angela Wanhalla (eds), Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific, Routledge, Abingdon & New York, 2017.

‘Anglo-Chinese and the politics of overseas travel from New South Wales, 1898 to 1925’, in Sophie Couchman and Kate Bagnall (eds), Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance, Brill, Leiden, 2015.

‘Crossing oceans and cultures’, in Agnieszka Sobocinska and David Walker (eds.), Australia’s Asia: Reviewing Australia’s Asian Pasts, University of Western Australia Press, 2012.

‘A journey of love: Agnes Breuer’s sojourn in 1930s China’, in Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woolacott (eds), Transnational Ties, ANU E Press, Canberra, 2008.

‘Vermin, hot showers and a shortage of trousers: Official visits to wartime internment camps’, in Ilma O’Brien and Mat Trinca (eds), Under Suspicion: Citizenship and Internment in Australia during the Second World War, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, 2008.

PhD thesis

‘Golden shadows on a white land: An exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855–1915’, PhD thesis, Department of History, University of Sydney, 2007.

Book reviews

‘A new perspective on Australia and China’ (review of Australians in Shanghai by Sophie Loy-Wilson), History Australia, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 666–67, https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2017.1384344.

‘Picnics and politics’ (review of Making Chinese Australia: Urban Elites, Newspapers and the Formation of Chinese Australian Identity, 1892–1912 and Unlocking the History of the Australasian Kuo Min Tang, 1911–2013), Inside Story, 24 January 2014, <inside.org.au/picnics-and-politics>.

‘Review of Manying Ip, Being Maori–Chinese: Mixed Identities’, Auckland University Press, for Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 2008.