Nola Cooke

Nola Cooke is an Australian independent researcher focusing on 19th century history of Chinese communities in Cochinchina and Cambodia, pre-dynastic southern Nguyen realm (Cochinchina) and early Vietnamese Catholicism, and Chinese revenue farming in Cambodia, exploring previously unknown or little-used French archival sources. 

With a doctorate in Vietnamese history from Australian National University (1995, ANU, Canberra), she was the English language editor of the journal Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora at ANU before retiring in 2011 while continuing to research. 

Select Publications

• [ed. with Li Tana (contr. Choi Byung-wook, James Cong Chin, Anthony Reid, Puangthong Rungswasdisab, Yumio Sakurai, Carl A. Trocki & Geoff Wade)] Water Frontier — Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750 – 1880, Singapore/​Lanham, Singapore University Press/​ Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 216 p. ISBN 978 – 0742530836.
• ​“Rapport sur le Cambodge. Voyage de Sai-Gon à Bat-tam-bang“ [Report on Cambodia. A Trip from Saigon to Battambang], transl. by Nola Cooke, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies 南方華裔研究雜誌 , Vol. 1, 2007: 154 – 169.
• “The Heaven and Earth Society Upsurge in Early 1880s French Cochinchina”, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies 南方華裔研究雑志第四卷 4, 2010. 
• [editor with Li Tana] Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies (ANU). ISSN 1834 – 609X.