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The Chinese Boy
Hornsby
Leicester
:
Hodder and Stoughton
Brockhampton Press
,
1973
Z528566
1973
single work
novel
historical fiction
young adult
'Ho is a young Chinese boy on the turbulent Australian goldfields, where his people are distrusted and despised - and feared. He is an interpreter for five humble men from Wild Pheasant village, in Lwantung Province, led by his indomitable uncle, Chan Hong. Together with a bony horse they call Yo Fei, they set out to find a golden fortune. Against the ever-changing, frenetic, and often violent background of gold fever, this story relates what happened to the Chinese in the ice-bound Snowy Mountains where they were used as human camels, known as the Celestial Transport Company; and on the Lambing Flat diggings, where they broke out from Blackguard Gully before the tragedy of the great roll-up.' (Source: Back cover)
South Melbourne
:
Macmillan
,
1977
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