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The White Australia Policy seems to be the spectre haunting many
episodes of our podcast/Australian history. This week
we meet Daisy Kwok, just one Chinese Australian whose life
was changed by one of the world's worst immigration
policies. Born in Sydney in 1909 in the lap of
luxury, Daisy and her family leave Australia, fleeing racism but
also chasing further riches in Shanghai in the 1920s, the ‘Paris
of the East’.
There Daisy becomes an it-girl of the bustling cosmopolitan boom
town before things come crashing down (can you hear the clap of
thunder of the communist revolution in the distance?).
SOURCES
Kwok, Daisy. Shanghai Daisy: The Autobiography of Daisy Kwok.
Edited by Tess Johnston and Graham Earnshaw. Hong Kong: Earnshaw
Books, 2019.
Brown, Jeremy, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds. Dilemmas of Victory:
The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2007.
Chen, Danyan. Shanghai Princess: Her Survival with Pride &
Dignity. New York: Better Link Press, 2010.
Fitzgerald, Shirley. Red Tape, Gold Scissors: The Story of
Sydney’s Chinese. Sydney: Halstead Press, 2008
Henriot, Christian, and Wen-hsin Yeh In the Shadow of the
Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Loy-Wilson, Sophie. “Daisy Kwok’s Shanghai: Life in China
before and after 1949.” In Locating Chinese Women: Historical
Mobility between China and Australia, edited by Kate Bagnall and
Julia T. Martínez. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press,
2021.
Loy-Wilson, Sophie. Australians in Shanghai: Race, Rights and
Nation in Treaty Port China. London: Routledge, 2017.
Listen to the RN Earshot episode about Daisy
Hosted by Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher
Supervising Producer: Hannah Reich
Producer: Hannah Jose
Video producer: Christian Harimanow
Executive Producers: Clare Rawlinson and Eric George
Head of ABC Audio on Demand: Jessica Radburn
Theme: Martin Peralta
Artwork: Gabriel Virata-Alves
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