中国人最早涉足澳大利亚,有可靠历史记载的是19世纪40年代。先是在外轮上工作的海员,随船到过澳大利亚,人数极少。稍后,是作为苦力来此牧羊的,人也不多。至19世纪中叶,澳大利亚发现金矿,就有大批华南农民来淘金。这些人,我把他们称作第一代。20世纪60年代,又有零星中国香港的留学生定居下来。80年代末,有约4万大陆留学生留居。此后又不断有学生来。我把这些人称为第二代。 The earliest Chinese involved in Australia, a reliable historical record of the 1840s. Seamen, who worked on the outer wheel first, traveled to Australia with a very small number of people. Later, shepherd came as a coolie, and there were not many people. By the mid-19th century, when gold was discovered in Australia, a large number of farmers in southern China came to pan gold. These people, I call them the first generation. In the 1960s, sporadic Chinese students from Hong Kong settled down. In the late 1980s, about 40,000 mainland students resided. Since then continue to have students. I call these people second generation.