Stories Behind the Faces
About the Photographs
Chinese in Australia
Education Activities
| 被遺忘的臉︰華人與法 |
Forgotten Faces: Chinese and the Law is an online education resource based on a series of nineteenth century photographs of Chinese prisoners held in Public Record Office Victoria’s collections, enriched by the use of other stories about Chinese prisoners from the nineteenth century prison registers and trial briefs.
Together the photographs and text help us to understand what it must have been like to be Chinese in nineteenth-century Australia and to understand the attitudes and behaviours of European Australians towards them.
Forgotten Faces is a touring exhibition that can be loaned from Public Record Office Victoria. The exhibition is currently on display at the Old Treasury Building.
This online resource can be used in conjunction with a visit to the touring exhibition. Reproductions of original documents and photographs shown on this site are displayed in the exhibition.
Public Record Office Victoria houses the records of the Victorian Government from the 1830s to the present day. Within these archives are many fascinating stories waiting to be told. Forgotten Faces: Chinese and the Law tells part of that hidden story.
Chinese language text on this site
Some of the text has been translated into Traditional Chinese characters. The will only display if Chinese language fonts are installed on the computer you are using. Character sets for Traditional and Simplified Chinese may be downloaded from your operating system’s support website. If you are using Microsoft Windows for instance you can visit the download centre at www.microsoft.com and search for a ‘chinese language pack’ for the variety of Windows you are running.
Sources
The material on these pages is based on the PROV touring exhibition Forgotten Faces: Chinese and the Law.
Education material written by Diane Gardiner
Editor: Dr John Andrews
Translations: Pisen Hong and See Tuang Tan
Images and additional material courtesy of:
Parliament of Victoria
State Library Victoria
Sovereign Hill, Ballarat
Robert O’Hara Burke Memorial Museum, Beechworth
Dr Kok Hu Jin
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