Sophie Couchman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6600711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Couchman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Couchman |
| SIGNATURE | COUCHMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8794-3532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Identification Photography and the Surveillance of Chinese Mobility in Colonial Australasia
In the late nineteenth century, colonial governments across Australasia began experimenting with ways of documenting the identity of mobile Chinese residents – including naturalised and natural-born British subjects – who were exempted under colonial anti-Chinese immigration laws enacted from 1881 onwards. In this article, we begin to catalogue the remaining fragmented collections of these colonial-era Chinese exemption documents and, concurrentl…
Making Chinese Australia
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries China’s Qing dynasty was falling, the Australian colonies were united as a Federation, and New Zealand was beginning to assert its own national
Chinese Australians
Chinese Australians
Brush and Shutter
JEFFREY W. CODY and FRANCES TERPAK (eds). Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China . Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2011. 220 pp. US$45.00, hardcover. Over the last five to ten yea
Making the ‘last Chinaman’
From the 1900s residents of declining former gold-rush towns in south-eastern Australia took snapshot photographs of frail, elderly Chinese men. A small but distinct group of these photographs were subsequently termed the 'last Chinaman'. This article argues that photographs of the 'last Chinaman' have been mobilised in local histories, to describe Chinese involvement in the gold rushes as part of the history of rural towns, contributing to the c…
Nature Strips
Books
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangle Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 464. $49.95 cloth. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Pp. 274. US$50 paper. The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 206. $37.95 paper. The Italians in Australia. By Gianfranco Cresciani. Cam…
Making the ‘last Chinaman’
From the 1900s residents of declining former gold-rush towns in south-eastern Australia took snapshot photographs of frail, elderly Chinese men. A small but distinct group of these photographs were subsequently termed the 'last Chinaman'. This article argues that photographs of the 'last Chinaman' have been mobilised in local histories, to describe Chinese involvement in the gold rushes as part of the history of rural towns, contributing to the c…
Brush and Shutter
JEFFREY W. CODY and FRANCES TERPAK (eds). Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China . Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2011. 220 pp. US$45.00, hardcover. Over the last five to ten yea
Books
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangle Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 464. $49.95 cloth. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Pp. 274. US$50 paper. The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 206. $37.95 paper. The Italians in Australia. By Gianfranco Cresciani. Cam…
Nature Strips
Making the ‘last Chinaman’
From the 1900s residents of declining former gold-rush towns in south-eastern Australia took snapshot photographs of frail, elderly Chinese men. A small but distinct group of these photographs were subsequently termed the 'last Chinaman'. This article argues that photographs of the 'last Chinaman' have been mobilised in local histories, to describe Chinese involvement in the gold rushes as part of the history of rural towns, contributing to the c…
Brush and Shutter
JEFFREY W. CODY and FRANCES TERPAK (eds). Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China . Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2011. 220 pp. US$45.00, hardcover. Over the last five to ten yea
Chinese Australians
Chinese Australians
Making Chinese Australia
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries China’s Qing dynasty was falling, the Australian colonies were united as a Federation, and New Zealand was beginning to assert its own national
Identification Photography and the Surveillance of Chinese Mobility in Colonial Australasia
In the late nineteenth century, colonial governments across Australasia began experimenting with ways of documenting the identity of mobile Chinese residents – including naturalised and natural-born British subjects – who were exempted under colonial anti-Chinese immigration laws enacted from 1881 onwards. In this article, we begin to catalogue the remaining fragmented collections of these colonial-era Chinese exemption documents and, concurrentl…
Australian History and Society (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · China (3 works)