Chapter 5 begins with a trans-colonial view of the settler empire in the 1870s as a critical decade of consolidating settler sovereignty. At this point of the nineteenth century, the contradictions of imperial liberalism were more clearly evident around the British Empire. British subjecthood was still projected as the glue to imperial citizenship, and the liberal values of freedom and justice still figured as distinctive British virtues. But Britishness itself was increasingly conceived as a racial rather than legal category, especially in the self-governing settler states. Against this backdrop of political shift in the empire, Chapter 5 addresses how Chinese settlers in the Australian colonies practiced everyday citizenship through good neighbourly relations, participation in the public sphere, and interracial domesticity. Some Chinese settlers were British subjects, reflecting the expanding boundaries of British subjecthood in the nineteenth-century empire. However, British subjecthood was not a precondition for everyday citizenship as a practice that was capable of encompassing different peoples and cultures.