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Chinese market gardening in Australia and New Zealand : gardens of prosperity

Boileau, Joanna, 1953- author

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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 ... [It] 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\"--Back cover.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Truck farming Australia History. / Vegetable farming Australia History. / Chinese Australia History. / Truck farming New Zealand History. / Vegetable farming New Zealand History. / Chinese New Zealand History.
• ISBN: 9783319518701, 3319518704, 3319518712, 9783319518718

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
SB323.C45 B65 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE