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• Furand tea, 1790-1840
• Coolies from China? 1840-60
• New gold Mountain, 1860-80
• White New Zealand, 1880-1910
• An old house fallen, 1810-30
• Hot war, cold war, 1930-50.

White Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand and their peoples during the seven or so generations after they initially came into contact. The Qing Empire and its successor states from 1790 to 1950 were vast, complex and torn by conflict. New Zealand, meanwhile, grew into a small, prosperous, orderly province of Europe. Not until now has anyone told the story of the links and tensions between the two countries during those years so broadly and so thoroughly. The reader keen to know about this relationship will find in this book a highly readable portrait of the lives, thoughts and feelings of Chinese who came to New Zealand and New Zealanders who went to China, along with a scholarly but stimulating discussion of race relations, government, diplomacy, war, literature and the arts.
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• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS-- CHINESE POPULATION STATISTICS-- PREFACE-- Chapter One: INTRODUCTION-- Chapter Two: ASIANS AND CARTOONING IN NEW ZEALAND-- Chapter Three:-- DEFENDING FAIR NEW ZEALAND: Walls and Floodgates-- Chapter Four: ASIAN POLITICS: A borrowed British view-- Chapter Five: UGLY ASIANS: The faceless Mongolian horde-- Chapter Six:-- ECONOMIC COMPETITORS: The live on the smell of an oily rag-- Chapter Seven: THREAT TO NEW ZEALAND IDENTITY-- BIOGRAPHIES OF CARTOONISTS-- PUBLICATIONS FEATURING THE CARTOONS-- CHRONOLOGY OF ASIAN HISTORY IN NEW ZEALAND-- BLIOGRAPHY-- FURTHER READING AND USEFUL WEBSITES.
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This book sets out to provoke a radical rethinking of some of the deep-seated and subconscious attitudes towards 'Asians' and Asia held by many New Zealanders, as reflected in cartoons of the past 140 years. Cartoons are powerful visual images which have an immediacy greater than that of words. Many New Zealanders are now grappling with understanding the issues behind 'bad Asian drivers', 'rising property prices', 'student criminals'. These issues go back 150 years to the arrival of the first Chinese, towards the end of the Gold Rushes. Our attitude to Asians as the essential outsider has undergone little change since then. New Asian immigrants cannot understand our prejudice, or where it comes from. Using political cartoons, this book examines New Zealanders' attitudes to Asians from the 1850s until the present day. The cartoons are arranged thematically and chronologically, accompanied by explanatory text. Each chapter has an introductory preface, with a major preface.
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This book uses extensive interviews with seven different families to explore historical and contemporary relations between Maori and Chinese, a subject which has never been given serious study before. A full chapter is given to each family which is explored in depth often in the voices of the protagonists themselves. This detailed and personal approach shows how in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Maori and Chinese, both relegated to the fringes of society, often had warm and congenial bonds, with intermarriage and large Maori-Chinese families.However in recent times the relationship between these two rapidly growing groups has shown tension as Maori have gained confidence in their identity and as increased Asian immigration has become a political issue. This book provides a unique and fascinating insight into cross-cultural alliances between Asian and indigenous peoples, revealing a resilience which has endured persecution, ridicule and neglect and offering a picture of NZ society which challenges the usual Pakeha-dominated perspective. Today's Maori-Chinese, especially younger members, are increasingly reaffirming their multiple roots and, with a growing confidence in the cultural advantages they possess, are playing important roles in New Zealand society.
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• Chapter One Introduction
• China's New Wave of International Migration
• New Zealand Local Contexts
• New People, New Approach
• Diasporic Chinese Media beyond New Zealand Chapter Two Conceptualising New Zealand Chinese Media
• Central Concepts
• Towards an Analytical Framework Chapter Three Revisting the History of New Zealand Chinese and Early Chinese Newspapers
• Chinese Immigration: From Sojourners to Settlers
• Early Chinese Newspapers
• Rethinking Early Chinese Newspapers Chapter Four New Chinese Immigrants and Contemporary New Zealand Chinese Media
• New Zealand Chinese Media
• A New Wave of Chinese Immigration
• Making a PRC Chinese Community
• PRC Chinese and Others' Settlement
• Evolution of New Chinese Media
• The New Chinese Community in their Own Media Chapter Five Ethnic Chinese Media during the 2005 New Zealand General Election
• Research Design and Background Information
• Phase
• 1: New Zealand Election in Chinese Media
• Phase
• 2: Relationship between Chinese Media and Migrants
• Phase
• 3: A Perspective from Media Personnel
• Summary Chapter Six Recent PRC Migrants in the Diasporic Mediasphere
• New Zealand Politics in Ethnic Chinese Media
• Recent PRC Migrants' Affinity with Conservative Parties
• Patriotic Sentiment Towards China Chapter Seven Conclusions
• New Insight into the Chinese in New Zealand
• Expansion of China's 'Soft Power'
• Chinese Media as an 'Imagined Chinatown'.
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What role does diasporic Chinese media play in the process of Chinese migrants' adaptation to their new home country? With China's rise, to what extent has the expansion of its "soft power" swayed the changing identities of the Chinese overseas? A Virtual Chinatown provides a timely and original analysis to answer such questions. Using a media and communication studies approach to investigate the reciprocal relationship between Chinese-language media and the Chinese migrant community in New Zealand, Phoebe Li goes beyond conventional scholarship on the Chinese Diaspora as practised by social historians, anthropologists and demographers. Written in an accessible and reader-friendly manner, this book will also appeal to academics and students with interests in other transnational communities, alternative media, and minority politics.
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• Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction
• China's New Wave of International Migration
• New Zealand Local Contexts
• New People, New Approach
• Diasporic Chinese Media beyond New Zealand
• ch. Two Conceptualising New Zealand Chinese Media
• Central Concepts
• Towards an Analytical Framework
• ch. Three Revisiting the History of New Zealand Chinese and Early Chinese Newspapers
• Chinese Immigration: From Sojourners to Settlers
• Early Chinese Newspapers
• Rethinking Early Chinese Newspapers
• ch. Four New Chinese Immigrants and Contemporary New Zealand Chinese Media
• New Wave of Chinese Immigration
• Making a PRC Chinese Community
• PRC Chinese and Others' Settlement
• Evolution of New Chinese Media
• New Chinese Community in their Own Media
• ch. Five Ethnic Chinese Media during the 2005 New Zealand General Election
• Research Design and Background Information
• Phase 1 New Zealand Election in Chinese Media
• Phase 2 Relationship between Chinese Media and Migrants
• Phase 3 Perspective from Media Personnel
• Summary
• ch. Six Recent PRC Migrants in the Diasporic Mediasphere
• New Zealand Politics in Ethnic Chinese Media
• Recent PRC Migrants' Affinity with Conservative Parties
• Patriotic Sentiment Towards China
• ch. Seven Conclusions
• New Insight into the Chinese in New Zealand
• Expansion of China's S̀oft Power'
• Chinese Media as an Ìmagined Chinatown'.

What role does diasporic Chinese media play in the process of Chinese migrants' adaptation to their new home country? With China's rise, to what extent has the expansion of its "soft power" swayed the changing identities of the Chinese overseas? A Virtual Chinatown provides a timely and original analysis to answer such questions. Using a media and communication studies approach to investigate the reciprocal relationship between Chinese-language media and the Chinese migrant community in New Zealand, Phoebe Li goes beyond conventional scholarship on the Chinese Diaspora as practised by social historians, anthropologists and demographers. Written in an accessible and reader-friendly manner, this book will also appeal to academics and students with interests in other transnational communities, alternative media, and minority politics.
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• List of tables and figures Acknowledgments List of abbreviations
• 1.
• Chapter 1: Introduction: A personal journey - Approaching the topic
• 2.
• Chapter 2: Chinese modernity and New Zealand's opening up - Perspectives from both immigrant sending and receiving countries
• 3.
• Chapter 3: Re-grounding "transnationalism" in theories and practices
• 4.
• Chapter 4: Changing family strategies and onward movements
• 5.
• Chapter 5: Conceptualisation of "home", identity, sense of belonging and citizenship
• 6.
• Chapter 6: Does the economic factor still matter? - Trans-Tasman migration of new PRC migrants
• 7.
• Chapter 7: Point of return - A quantitative data analysis from a comparative perspective
• 8.
• Chapter 8: "Local" or "Global"? - Situating Chinese transnational migration in the world migration system and global modernity
• Appendixes Index.
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The term `circulatory transnational migration' best describes the unconventional migratory route of many contemporary Chinese migrants - that is an unfinished set of circulatory movements that these migrants engage in between the homeland and various host countries. `Return migration', `step migration' to a third destination and the `astronauting' strategy are all included within this circulatory migration movement wherein `returning' to the country of origin does not always mean to settle back to the homeland permanently; while `step migration' also does not necessarily mean to re-migrate to a third destination country for a permanent purpose. Liu takes a longitudinal perspective to study Chinese migrants' transnational movements and looks at their transnational migratory movements as a family matter and progressive and dynamic process, using New Zealand as a primary case study. She examines Chinese migrants' initial motives for immigrating to New Zealand; the driving forces behind their adoption of a transnational lifestyle which includes leaving New Zealand to return to China, moving to a third country - typically Australia - or commuting across borders; family-related considerations; inter-generational dynamics in transnational migration; as well as their future movement intentions. Liu also discusses Chinese migrants' conceptualisation of `home', citizenship, identity, and sense of belonging to provide a deeper understanding of their transnational migratory experiences.
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• Acknowledgements
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• 1. Introduction: Becoming Cosmopolitan?
• 2. A Cosmopolitan Gaze towards Migration Studies
• 3. Chinese Migration to New Zealand: Desiring Place and Desirable Migrants
• 4. Cosmopolitanism and Everyday Life
• 5. Rooted Cosmopolitanism and Everyday Encounters
• 6. Feeling Cosmopolitan: Emotion, Migration, and Cosmopolitan Sociability
• 7. Conclusion: Interrupted Pathways to Becoming Cosmopolitan
• References
• Index.
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There are growing waves of `desirable' migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in its largest metropolitan region Auckland. In purely demographic terms much of this diversity has been generated by policy shifts since the 1980s and the adoption of a comparatively liberal immigration policy based on personal merit without discrimination on the grounds of race, national or ethnic origin. Due to these changes, migrants from China, and Asia more broadly, have become increasingly significant in migration flows into New Zealand. This in turn makes New Zealand a valuable case study for understanding how Chinese migrants integrate into and affect their host nation. Wang attempts to close a gap in contemporary research by relating cosmopolitanism to migration, particularly in the Asian context. With a cosmopolitan gaze towards migration studies, she makes four key contributions to the ongoing scholarly discussion. Firstly, this is the first comprehensive study to use cosmopolitanism as a framework to study the lives of contemporary Chinese migrants, with implications for migration studies as a whole. It sheds light on the relationship between cosmopolitanism and migrant mobility, taking a new approach to examine the living paradigms of international migrants. Secondly, this book identifies the emergence and development of cosmopolitanism outside the domain of Western middle-class groups. The concept of `rooted cosmopolitanism' is utilised to break down the Eurocentric notion of cosmopolitanism, and to show the role played by Chinese rootedness during the process of becoming cosmopolitan and encountering diversity. Thirdly, the book advances and enriches the knowledge of studies in `everyday cosmopolitanism', by focusing on `cosmopolitanism from below', locating quotidian and `down-to-earth' cosmopolitan engagements that are grounded in everyday migrant lives. Fourthly, it looks at the emotional dimension of migrants negotiating difference and engaging in cosmopolitanism, particularly the ways in which emotions undermine and promote the development of cosmopolitan sociability.
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• Contents include: Introduction: Manying Ip
• Chapter 1 Ancient Maori-Chinese Ancestral Links: A Survey of the Current Western Understandings: Jun Lu
• Chapter 2 The 'Majority Factor': Shaping Maori and Chinese Minorities: David Pearson
• Chapter 3 'Maoriland and 'Yellow Peril': Discourses of Maori and Chinese in the Formation of New Zealand's National Identity 1890-1914: Nigel Murphy
• Chapter 4 Developments in Maori and Chinese Relations 1920s-1980s: Richard Bedford
• Chapter 5 Chinese and Maori: Encounters and Intersections: Robert Didham
• Chapter 6 Chinese Perceptions of Maori: The 'Important Other': Manying Ip
• Chapter 7 Maori Views on Immigration: Implications for Maori-Chinese Interactions: James Chang
• Chapter 8 Dynamics and Identity in Maori-Chinese Families: Finding the Necessary 'Space' in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Jennifer Hauraki
• Chapter 9 From Despised and Feared to Potential Allies: Maori Media Depiction of Chinese: Margaret Mutu
• Chapter 10 The Representation of Maori in Chinese Language Media: Sally Liangni Liu
• Chapter 11 The Other from Elsewhere: Arrested Encounters in Bicultural New Zealand: Mark Williams
• Chapter 12 Insider Dilemmas: The Politics of Reading and Writing Ethnic Minority Fiction: Kathy Ooi
• Bibliography
• Index.
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How have two very different marginalised groups in New Zealand society - Maori and Chinese - interacted over the last 150 years? This important book, the result of a major grant from the Marsden Fund, looks at the relationship between the tangata whenua and the country's earliest and largest non-European immigrant group for the first time. Do Maori resent Chinese immigrants? Do Chinese New Zealanders understand the role of the tangata whenua? Have Maori and Chinese formed alliances based on common values and history? Contributors tackle such question from many angles. They analyse how Maori newspapers portrayed Chinese and how the Chinese media portray Maori; they examine the changing demography of the Chinese and Maori populations; they look at Maori-Chinese marriages and the ancient migration of both groups. The result is a rich portrait of the past and present of relationships between two important immigrant groups. Race relations in New Zealand have usually been examined in terms of Maori and Pakeha. By looking at Maori-Chinese relations, the Indigenous and the immigrant portrays a much richer and more complex social fabric.
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• Acknowledgements vii Romanisation ix Preface Manying Ip xi PART I: First Encounters, 1860s-1920s
• 1 The Sojourner Experience: The Cantonese Goldseekers in New Zealand, 1865-1901 James Ng 5
• 2 Traces of the Past: Archaeological Insights into the New Zealand Chinese Experience in Southern New Zealand Neville A. Ritchie 31
• 3 Joe Lum v.The Attorney General: The Politics of Exclusion Nigel Murphy 48 PART II: Home is Where the Heart Is, 1920s-1980s
• 4 Remembering Chinatown: Haining Street of Wellington Lynette Shum 73
• 5 Eating Porkbones and Puha with Chopsticks: Maori-Chinese Constructions Jenny Bol Jun Lee 94
• 6 A Place to Stand: The Chun Family Experience Kirsten Wong 113 PART III: New Faces, 1987-2003
• 7 Untapped Talents: The Employment and Settlement Experiences of Skilled Chinese in New Zealand Anne Henderson 141
• 8 Reluctant Exiles or Roaming Transnationals? The Hong Kong Chinese in New Zealand Elsie Ho 165
• 9 Seeking the Last Utopia: The Taiwanese in New Zealand Manying Ip 185 PART IV: Standing Up
• 10 Coping with Insecurity: Everyday Experiences of Chinese New Zealanders Beven Yee 215
• 11 Education, Politics and Chinese New Zealander Identities: The Case of the 1995 Epsom Normal Primary School's 'Residency Clause and English Test' David Pang 236
• 12 Is Saying Sorry Enough? Gilbert Wong 258 Appendix: Present archival and library resources on the study of the Chinese in New Zealand, including recent Asian immigrants Nigel Murphy 280 Contributors 298 Index 300.
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The Chinese are New Zealand's largest non-European and non-Polynesian ethnic group, with a history in this country dating back to the mid-1850s. Through 12 essays, this study traces the history of a group who have been the victims of racial stereotyping, from the 19th century goldrush to the present day. A variety of contributors offer different perspectives, including historical, legal and archeological. The development of the Chinese community, the formation of their identity as a visible minority, their settlement and adaption issues, and their transnational behaviour are all explored here. As its subject is the most conspicuous group of "essential outsiders", owing to their number as well as their perceived economic privilege, this study also provides an in-depth examination of New Zealand's race relations and national identity.
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