By Juanita Kwok The Quong Sin Tong is an old Chinese Australian society about which little is known. The Society is believed to have erected the Quong Sing Tong monument in Rookwood Cemetery in 1877, commemorating Chinese buried in the Old Chinese Cemetery in Rookwood. According to Terri McCormack, who wrote the Conservation Management Plan for the Quong Sing Tong monument: “The elaborate style of the monument, with its moat, bridges and wrought iron railings indicates that it was quite costly. A society able to build such a structure either consisted of wealthy members or had been in existence long enough to accrue a considerable amount of money through subscriptions.”[1] Mc Cormack wrote:   “In August 1876, some of Sydney’s prominent Chinese citizens presented a petition to the Minister for Lands requesting that ‘a separate portion of land be set apart for the interment of their dead’… It is unfortunate that the files relating to the matter are not extant. The names on...Read More