Traces

Cantonese connections The origins of Australia’s early Chinese migrants

n a quiet residential street in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Glebe, on a large grassy block that stretches down towards the harbour, sits the Sze Yup Kwan Ti Temple. Built between 1898 and 1904, the Sze Yup Temple is one of two heritage-listed temples in Sydney. The second, the Yiu Ming Temple in Retreat Street, Alexandria, was opened a few years later, in 1909. In contrast to the Glebe temple, the Yiu Ming Temple is tucked away at the end

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