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1 Friday Essay : The Story of Fook Shing, Colonial Victoria’s Chinese Detective Benjamin Mountford , 2018 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 13 April 2018;

'On July 25 1882, Inspector Frederick Secretan, the head of Victoria Police’s Detective Branch, shifted uncomfortably in his seat. In the wake of the Kelly Gang fiasco, during which Ned’s infamous band of outlaws had managed to elude the police until the bloody shootout at Glenrowan, a royal commission had been called to inquire into Victoria’s police force. Secretan’s detectives had been singled out for particular criticism. Now, as he fronted the commissioners, the inspector sought to explain the methods he deployed for detecting crime in Melbourne and across Victoria.' (Introduction)

1 Send Fook Shing : The Chinese Detective in Colonial Victoria Benjamin Mountford , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 14 no. 3 2017; (p. 361-377)

'This article opens a biographical window onto Australian colonial history and, in particular, the coming together of the British and Chinese Empires in colonial Victoria. It takes as its focus the personal history of Fook Shing, a prominent Chinese leader and ‘headman’ at Bendigo during the 1850s, who went on to become colonial Victoria’s longest serving Chinese detective.'  (Publication abstract)

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