1. Wei Chu-Hsien, Zhongguoren faxian aozhou [The Chinese discovery of Australia] (Hong Kong: Suowen She Zhongxing Congshu [Suowen She Zhongxing Collection of Books], 1950), 184.

2. C. P. Fitzgerald, ‘A Chinese Discovery of Australia?’, in Australian Writers: An Anthology, ed. T. Inglish Moore (Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1953), 75–86. The most recent argument for Chinese discovery, 350 years before Captain Cook, of Australia comes from Gavin Menzies in his book, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (London: Bantam Press, 2002), 195–215.

3. Parts of it have been published in Heat 9 (1998): 137–148, and Globalising Australia: Culture, Academia & Writing at the End of the Second Millennium, ed. Chris Palmer and Ian Topliss (Melbourne: Meridian Books, 2001), 123–130. The book, now titled, On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Speaking English, Thinking Chinese and Living Australian, is forthcoming with Wakefield Press, SA, in 2008.

4. Edward Said, Orientalism (London: Routledge, 1978), 73.

5. Such as Helene Chung’s Shouting from China (Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin, 1988), 57, in which she claims that the first Chinese came to Tasmania on 9 July 1830.

6. See the entry on ‘Chinese Australian’ in Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Australian (accessed 17 July 2008).

7. See Eric Rolls, Sojourners: The Epic Story of China’s Centuries-Old Relationship with Australia (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992), 32.

8. In fact, xin jin shan (New Gold Mountain) is a reference to all of Australia, not just Melbourne, as shown by the author’s recent photograph, taken in Shanghai (26 December 2007), of a five-dollar note in 1918 in both English and Chinese, one that says ‘CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA’ whereas, in Chinese, it is xin jin shan (New Gold Mountain) for Australia—author’s note.

9. This statistic was valid till 2001 as more books were subsequently produced.

10. See, for example, Charles A. Price, The Great White Walls Are Built: Restrictive Immigration to North America and Australasia 1836–1888 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1974); M. Willard, History of the White Australia Policy to 1920 (1923; Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967); A. T. Yarwood, Asian Migration to Australia: The Background to Exclusion 1896–1923 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1964); A. C. Palfreeman, The Administration of the White Australia Policy (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967); Andrew Markus, Fear and Hatred: Purifying Australia and California 1850–1901 (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1979); and J. V. D’Cruz, The Asian Image in Australia (Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1973), arguably the first book dealing with the topic in Australia.