Paul Macgregor is an historian who is the convenor of the Melbourne Chinese Studies Group, and was the curator of Melbourne’s Museum of Chinese Australian History from 1990 to 2005. He is the editor of Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific (1995), and joint editor of both Chinese in Oceania (2002) and After the Rush: regulation, participation and Chinese communities in Australia 1860-1940 (2004). He has organised three international conferences on the Chinese diaspora in Australasia, and has curated numerous exhibitions on the history and material heritage of Chinese Australians. He has also been involved in five major academic research projects: The Australia-China oral history project, A Thematic survey of sites of Chinese Australian history, The Chinese heritage of Australian Federation project, Studies in Victoria’s [Chinese] goldfield heritage: the Mt Alexander Diggings 1851-1901, and Images of Chinese in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia, 1850-1950. His current research on Lowe Kong Meng is part of a wider investigation of the development of nineteenth-century political and trade partnerships between Europeans and Chinese in Australasia, Southeast Asia and China.

Author email: paulmacgregor@diversity.org.au