| Featured projects | Duration |
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Enterprising Chinese Australians and the diaspora networks, 1890-1949 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award |
2015–2018 |
Publications
Books
Kuo, Mei-fen and Brett, Judith (2013). Unlocking the History of the Australasian Kuo Min Tang 1911-2013. Kew, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2013). Making Chinese Australia: urban elites, newspapers and the formation of Chinese-Australian identity, 1892–1912. Clayton VIC, Australia: Monash University Publishing.
Book Chapters
Kuo, Mei-fen and Fitzgerald, John (2020). Colonial pathways to international education: Chinese students in White Australia in the 1920s. Colonialism, China and the Chinese: amidst empires. (pp. 48-65) edited by Peter Monteath and Matthew P. Fitzpatrick. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429423925
Kuo, Mei-fen (2018). Jinxin: the remittance trade and enterprising Chinese Australians, 1850-1916. Qiaopi trade and transnational networks in the Chinese diaspora. (pp. 153-168) edited by Gregor Benton, Hong Liu and Huimei Zhang. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Kuo, Mei-fen (2018). Jinxin: the remittance trade and enterprising Chinese Australians, 1850–1916. The Qiaopi trade and transnational networks in the Chinese diaspora. (pp. 160-178) edited by Gregor Benton, Hong Liu and Huimei Zhang. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315113043
Kuo, Mei-fen (2017). 孫文と積極的かつ進取性に富んだオーストラリア華商――南太平洋国民党の創設. 孫文とアジア太平洋 ―ネイションを越えて. (pp. 216-234) Tokyo, Japan: 汲古書院.
Kuo, Mei-fen (2015). Confucian heritage, public narratives and community politics of Chinese Australians at the beginning of the 20th century. Chinese Australians: politics, engagement and resistance. (pp. 137-173) edited by Sophie Couchman and Kate Bagnall. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
Journal Articles
Kuo, Mei-fen (2019). Modern migrant festivals and gendered sociability: in the case of Australia’s Dragon. Global History Review, 16, 88-105.
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2017). Reframing Chinese labour rights: Chinese unionists, Pro-labour societies and the nationalist movement in Melbourne, 1900-10. Labour History (113), 133-156. doi: 10.5263/labourhistory.113.0133
Fitzgerald, John and Kuo, Mei-fen (2017). Diaspora charity and welfare sovereignty in the Chinese Republic: Shanghai charity innovator William Yinson Lee (Li Yuanxin, 1884–1965). Twentieth-Century China, 42 (1), 72-96. doi: 10.1353/tcc.2017.0008
Kuo, Mei-fen and Fitzgerald, John (2016). Chinese students in White Australia: state, community, and individual responses to the Student Visa Program, 1920-1925. Australian Historical Studies, 47 (2), 259-277. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2016.1156136
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2013). Contested Confucian heritage, public narratives and community politics of Chinese Australians at the beginning of the twentieth century. Journal of Chinese Overseas, 9 (2), 212-244. doi: 10.1163/17932548-12341260
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2011). ‘Huaqiao’ – Narratives and Political Alliances of Urban Chinese-Australian Communities in Early 20th Century. Bulletin of the Institution of Modern History (中央研究院近史所集刊), 71, 157-202.
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2010). Gender discussion and social identity in Chinese-Australian newspapers in the early 20th century. Research on Women in Modern Chinese History (), 18, 175-214.
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2009). The making of a diasporic identity: the case of the Sydney Chinese commercial elite, 1890s-1900s. Journal of Chinese Overseas, 5 (2), 336-363. doi: 10.1163/179303909X12489373183091
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2008). The Chinese Australian Herald and the shaping of a modern “Imagined Chinese Community” in 1890s colonial Sydney. Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, 2, 34-53.
Conference Papers
Kuo, Mei-fen (2018). Chinese rural entrepreneurs in the White Australia era: the case of Harry Fay of Hong Yuen & Co.. Chinese contribution to Asia-Pacific colonial economies workshop, Wollongong, Australia, 9 December 2018.
Kuo, Mei-fen (2018). The Pekin Café in Sydney: consuming nationality and enterprising Chinese Australians in the early twentieth century. Conference of History of Consumer Culture: Objects, Desire and Sociability, Tokyo, Japan, 23-25 March, 2017. Tokyo, Japan: Gakushuin University.
Kuo, Mei-fen (2017). Sydney Chinese press, diaspora capitalism and the White Australia Policy: the case of Percy Lee. Voices of the Australian Migrant and Minority Press: Intercultural, Transnational and Diasporic Contexts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 22-23 November 2017. Toowoomba, QLD, Australia: University of Southern Queensland.
Kuo, Mei-fen (2017). Politics and sociability: cultivating Australia’s first Chinese Women Association. International Conference on “Chinese Women in World History”, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan, 11-14 July 2017. Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.
Kuo, Mei-fen (2016). Making South Pacific network: Dr Sun Yat-sen and Chinese Australian community in the early 20th century. Conference on Dr Sun Yat-sen and the Asia-Pacific: Crossing over Nations, Kobe, Japan, 26-27 November 2016.
Mei-Fen Kuo (2015). Reframing labour rights, Christian philanthropy and international humanitarian association in the early 20th century—the case of Y’s Men’s Club. Conference of Thinking Labour Rights through the “Coolie” Question, Sydney, 17-18 September 2015.
Mei-Fen Kuo (2015). “Free China” and Innovation of Organizations: Taiwan's Effect on Reshaping Chinese Communities in Sydney and Melbourne from 1954 to 1972”. Taiwan: the view from the South, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia, 6-9 January 2015.
Mei-Fen Kuo (2015). Enterprising Chinese Australians and the forgotten legacy of Wing Sang and Co. in the early 20th century. 3rd Foundation for Australian Studies in China (FASIC) Conference, Shanghai, PR China, 22-25 Oct 2015.
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2015). Enterprising Chinese Australians and rethinking remittance network: the reflection of Wing Sang and Co. 1890-1916. Conference on Qiaopi Industry in China and Overseas, Singapore, 9-10 October 2015.
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2015). Invisible impact of women and philanthropic sociability and Chinese Australia voluntary organizations. International Workshop for the Publication Project on Philanthropy and the Chinese Diaspora on the Pacific Rim, 1850-1949, Hong Kong, 27-28 June 2015.
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2014). Chinese Australian philanthropists, transpacific mobilization and consumer culture on the development of philanthropy in China in the 1920s. International Conference on “Modern China in Global Contexts, 1600-Present, Taiwan, 11-13 August 2014.
Kuo, Mei-Fen (2014). Everyday life approach and changing perspectives in diaspora philanthropy: the stories of Joe Tong and William Yinson Lee. International Symposium International Migration and Qiaoxiang Studies, Nanping, Fujian Province, Peoples Republic of China, 11-14 December 2014.
Mei-Fen Kuo (2013). Education and community politics: the first wave of Chinese student to Australia in the 1920s,. Dragon Tails Conference: 3rd Australasian Conference on Overseas Chinese History & Heritage, University of Wollongong, 6-8 July 2013.
Seminar Paper
Kuo, Mei-fen (2018). Enterprising Chinese Australians in the early 20th century: capital, sociability, and diaspora nationalism. ANU China Series. China in the World Centre, Australian National University.