Chinatown Sydney

This guide to Chinatown Sydney starts with a Dixon Street boarding house carved into ninety-two cramped rooms, and King Fong's memory of the old men who filled them by the nineteen fifties. It traces how thousands of Chinese men arrived during the gold rush of the eighteen fifties, and how laws meant to keep Australia white kept many of them from ever bringing a wife or family here. The Goon Yee Tong clan association bought meeting rooms on Dixon Street back in nineteen seventeen, and some of the oldest men spent their last working years selling peanuts at the racetrack.