Made in Chinatown: Chinese Australian Furniture Factories, 1880–1930: By Peter Charles Gibson. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2022. Pp. 226. A$40 paper.

Gibson poses a more serious challenge to the one-dimensional view of Chinese workers as "cheap labour" or a "coolie class" threatening "White workers" (see chapter three, "Workers"). In I Made in Chinatown i , Peter Gibson sets out how the history of Chinese furniture-makers and factories in Sydney and Melbourne subverted the White Australia Policy and the racist logic that underpinned it. Made in Chinatown: Chinese Australian Furniture Factories, 1880-1930: By Peter Charles Gibson. [Extracted from the article]