Thesis Title:

Kangaroos and Dragons: The 1923 Chinese Football Tour of Australia

Supervisor: Nicholas Brown

Nick Guoth has recently taken up the discipline of historical study. He has a degree from Macquarie University in Statistics and Computing, awarded in 1985 and has been working in the area of IT at the ANU since. In 2000, Nick became interested in sports history, with a specialisation in football (soccer), and has since published a number of articles on the subject. He also holds a position as a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, ANU since 2005. Nick resides in the Mathematical Sciences Institute and is a part-time postgraduate student.
His thesis analyses the 1923 Chinese football tour of Australia in the light of the White Australia Policy. It is a study of the relationships and attitudes of Australians to the Chinese and the tour itself, while also investigating the changes to sporting culture in Australia due to the tour.

Research interests:

Inter-war Australian football (soccer) history
Early Canberra history
Nineteenth century New Zealand sports history


Publications:
Guoth, N. (2003). Ethnicity and soccer in Canberra. Canberra Historical Journal, 52,  29-31. Guoth, N. (2005). Kindred sports: Rugby union's involvement with the 1922 Australian soccer tour. In R. Hess, M. Nicholson & B. Stewart (Eds), Football fever: Crossing boundaries (pp. 17-25). Melbourne: Maribyrnong Press. Adair, D., Coe, B., & Guoth, N. (Eds). (2005). Beyond the torch: Olympics and the Australian culture. Melbourne: Australian Society for Sports History Ltd. Guoth, N. (2006). Loss of identity: New Zealand soccer, its foundations and its legacies. Soccer and Society, 7(2-3), 187-207. Guoth, N. (2006). For the love of the game: A fan's perscpective. In W. Murray & R. Hay (Eds), The world game down under (pp. 153-165), Melbourne: Australian Society for Sports History Ltd. Guoth, N. (2007). Host organised event tourism: tourism for the participants. Refereed paper in I. McDonnell, S. Grabowski, & R. March (Eds), CAUTHE, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference, Sydney: University of Technology, Sydney.
Conference papers: Guoth, N. (2001).  Migration and sport: The history of soccer in the Federal Captial Territory, 1910 to 1937. Paper presented at Sporting Traditions XIII, Adelaide. Guoth, N. (2003). It's all where the money goes. Paper presented at Sporting Traditions XIV, Sydney Guoth, N. (2005). Loss of identity: New Zealand soccer, its foundations and its legacies. Paper presented at Sporting Traditions XV, Melbourne. Guoth, N. (2006). What White Australia Policy? The 1923 Chinese football tour of Australia. Paper presented at ANU Sports Symposium, Canberra. Guoth, N. (2007). Host organised event tourism: Tourism for the participants. Paper presented at CAUTHE XVII, Sydney. Guoth, N. (2007), Kangaroos and Dragons: The 1923 Chinese Football Tour of Australia. presented at Sporting Traditions XVI, Canberra