
John Donnelly
Release Date: 01 Apr 2005
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781740760911
ISBN-10: 1740760913
Explores the experiences of two Chinese bonded labourers in Australia prior to the Gold Rush Years of the 1850s. Shiu Pi, eldest son of a provincial Chinese official is kidnapped and shipped to Sydney together with Angee, an illiterate labourer with a gambling problem. As this unlikely pair are indentured to a squatter in the Riverina, they grapple with cultural dislocation between the British and the Aborigines in a new country. Their beliefs and spiritual philosophy of Taoism are questioned and reinforced.
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