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A key theme of this book is mobility – not only the mobility of Chinese immigrants but the mobility of their modes of living and working, ideas, skills, knowledge and technology. Chinese market gardeners in Australasia were an integral part of the population movements sparked by the gold rushes, the opening up of the land for settlement and the growth of cities. They made a significant contribution to the economies of Australia and New Zealand, fuelling rural expansion and the rapid growth of country towns and cities as well as enhancing diets and public health with a wide variety of reasonably priced fruit and vegetables. They maintained ongoing ties to kin and native place in China and adapted their horticultural techniques to new environments and markets.
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Lily Lee and Ruth Lam, Sons of the Soil, Pukekohe, 2012, p. 506.
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Michael Symons, One Continuous Picnic, Melbourne, 2007, p. 84.
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Zvonkica Stanin touches on these issues in her study of Chinese market gardening on the Loddon River in Victoria, interpreting the open layout of gardens as evidence of communal ownership, cooperative labour and care for the land by generations of gardeners (Zvonkica Stanin, ‘From Li Chun to Yong Kit: A Market Garden on the Loddon, 1851–1912’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 6, 2004, p. 31).
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Ian Jack, ‘Some less familiar aspects of the Chinese in 19th century Australia’, in Henry Chan, Ann Curthoys and Nora Chiang (eds.), The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, Canberra, 2001, pp. 44–54.
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Joanne Monk, ‘The diggers in the trenches: a history of market gardens in Victoria 1835–1939’, Australian Garden History, Vol. 4, No. 1, July/August 1992, p. 5; and Barry McGowan, ‘Chinese market gardens in Southern and Western NSW’, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 36, 2005, n.p.
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Boileau, J. (2017). Conclusion. In: Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51871-8_8
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