ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the lives of Australians in Shanghai to study processes that shaped the emergence of colonial modernity in Australia and China in the twentieth century. The writings of these Australians in Shanghai and the archives of the institutions for which they worked reveal a more dynamic and geographically expansive view of this period than has previously been documented in Australian scholarship. The book illustrates the Daisy's story. Her life story, as told to Chinese historians, demonstrates how the archival trails left behind by Australians in Shanghai take on dense cultural meanings in ways that are productive for historians. Daisy's association with Sino-Australian relations was written into Chinese and Australian national narratives in particular ways. In Australia, her story is bound up with the restrictions placed on Chinese Australian business under the White Australia Policy.
