澳洲淘金华工传承了中国传统生活方式,具有高度封闭性,中西文化融合现象业已出现但远非主流,因而以淘金史为代表的早期华人史更多反映了中国历史的海外延伸。同时随着日益融入世界,中国史的场域也开始突破疆域限制,向中国人的历史过渡,由民族国家历史向全球史过渡,澳洲淘金华工史是这一转型进程的集中体现和重要组成部分。 Australian gold rush workers inherited the traditional Chinese way of life, with a high degree of closure, the phenomenon of integration of Chinese and Western cultures has emerged but far from the mainstream, so the history of the early Chinese represented by gold rush more reflects the overseas expansion of Chinese history. At the same time, with the increasingly integrated into the world, the field of Chinese history has also begun to break the territorial limits, the transition to the history of China, the transition from the history of nation-state to the history of the world, Australian gold rush history is the embodiment of this transition process and an important part .