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Chinese Garden of Friendship, Darling Harbour December 2014

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Casal Partiu
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Partiu, Casal

Brazilian photographer who shares some of his photographs under a Commons license on Flickr

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Chinese

Chinese settlers arrived in Sydney from 1818 and their compatriots followed, especially after gold was discovered in New South Wales. Despite harrassment from governments and intimidation from other Sydneysiders, Chinese immigrants continued to come and to stay throughout the 19th century, until the relaxation of racist laws in the mid-20th century. With renewed Chinese immigration in the 21st century, Sydney's Chinese community is rapidly changing.

Chinese Garden of Friendship

Built on the site of the NSW Fresh Food and Ice Company, the Chinese Garden was a Bicentennial project, opened in 1988.

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Zoological and Botanical Gardens

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Landscape architecture

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Chinese Garden of Friendship

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Tranquil Chinese garden that was a gift to Sydney from the city of Guangzhou, the region in southern China where most of Sydney's early Chinese came from.

Darling Harbour

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Waterway to the west of the city once surrounded by wharves, goods yards, woolstores and factories which contributed enormously to the city's economic wealth. The former rail lines and goods yards were transformed from commercial port to a recreational and pedestrian precinct in the 1980s.