Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand: Gardens of Prosperity
Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand: Gardens of Prosperity (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology) by Joanna Boileau
English | 3 Nov. 2017 | ISBN: 3319518704 | 348 Pages | PDF | 14.8 MB
English | 3 Nov. 2017 | ISBN: 3319518704 | 348 Pages | PDF | 14.8 MB
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. Truly multidisciplinary, Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand 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.