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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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• 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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• 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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