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- Multidisciplinary approach, covering the fields of technology transfer, history, historical archaeology, material culture studies and Chinese diaspora studies
- Contributes to a historical understanding of human responses to climate and the dynamic relationship between international migration, settlement and environment
- Transnational and comparative approach, placing Chinese market gardeners in Australia and New Zealand within the context of the broader Chinese diaspora
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in Australia and New Zealand. It enlarges our understanding of processes of technological change and human mobility, highlighting the mobility of migrants as an essential element in the mobility and adaptation of technologies. Truly multidisciplinary, Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand incorporates elements of economic, agricultural, social, cultural and environmental history, along with archaeology, to document how Chinese market gardeners from subtropical southern China adapted their horticultural techniques and technologies to novel environments and the demands of European consumers. It shows that they made a significant contribution to the economies of Australia and New Zealand, developing flexible strategies to cope with the vagaries of climate and changing business and social environments which were often hostile towards Asian immigrants.
Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of the Chinese diaspora, in particular the history of the Chinese in Australasia; the history of technology; horticultural and garden history; and environmental history, as well as Asian studies more generally.
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Book Title: Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand
Book Subtitle: Gardens of Prosperity
Authors: Joanna Boileau
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51871-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51870-1Published: 09 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84765-8Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51871-8Published: 27 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 327
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of China, Australasian History, Labor History, Environmental Geography