Why doesn’t Hobart have a Chinatown?
- Written by Imogen Wegman, Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania
A row of buildings in Hobart that were built in the early twentieth century, after several fires destroyed some of the old weatherboard shops that housed both Chinese and European businesses. Author providedOn November 18 1909, greengrocer Claude Nam Shing was woken up by shouts of “fire”. He found his store, on the corner of Elizabeth...
