Thursday, June 7, 2012

Chinese experience in Australia

Some of the Chinese immigrants were deckhands, passengers, indentured labourers and people who were hoping to send money back to their own families because they were poor back where they had currently lived. The immigrants were mostly mind workers to search for gold; they were known to be very hard workers.

Most Chinese settlers came to Australia to search for gold. In1852 news of gold had reached southern China, and many men from Honk Hong, Shantou and Xiamen’s shippers arrived under a credit-ticket system, with fares to be paid once fortunes were made. The Chinese did not only mine for gold, but took on jobs such as cooks, peddlers, and storekeepers. In the first decade after the discovery of gold, many had taken jobs nobody else wanted or that were considered too dirty for the locals. They came here because China is a very big country and some wanted to see fortune here in Australia.

The Chinese immigrants came to Australia in the 20th century some time. Most Chinese settlers came to Australia in 1848 to search for gold in the minds but in1861 and act was past to reduce the number of Chinese people aloud into the colony. So from there on they had to try and find other ways of producing money by opening stores, becoming merchants and a fish curing industry which supplied dry fish to the Chinese people throughout NSWS as well as Melbourne. Other occupations included scrub cutters, cooks, interpreters, market gardeners, cabinetmakers, tobacco farmers and drapers.

When the Chinese immigrants first got here they went straight to the mind fields and then as the city’s and towns popped up they all started working there and some even worked on properties. 

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