Being Māori-Chinese: mixed identities. Manying Ip, 7/50.

[cyphomandra]

Ip is a professor of Asian Studies at Auckland University, and she’s written a number of books about the Chinese experience in New Zealand/Aotearoa; this one is a collection of interviews with members of seven Māori -Chinese families, loosely grouped in order of the earliest Chinese arrival (1920s - Chinese were arriving in NZ almost 100 years

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[fungus_files]

Really glad to see a review of this book here. I just met Manying again the other day as she was passing through Oz. :)

[cyphomandra]

Well, if you see her again, I enjoyed her book! I definitely want to read the latest one, but need to see if I can track it down via the library, as I've exceeded my reading material budget for the month :)

[bibliofile]

Interesting book. I know that immigrants to New Zealand come from all over the Pacific Rim, but I hadn't heard much about issues related specifically to Chinese immigrants.

About the "perceived" increase in Asian immigration . . I thought that that was not only reality (that is, easily confirmed with actual numbers) but, in the '90s, related directly to the return of control Hong Kong to China by the British.

Finally, a geeky question: what's the scoop on the diacritical mark that you use in "Maori"? I've never seen the word with diacriticals. (Mind you, while I married a kiwi, I've only spent a few weeks in the country and thus have had minimal exposure to local materials.) Please understand that I am asking as a geek who aims to be accurate -- and remembers things much better when they have stories or even simply explanations.

[cyphomandra]

"Perceived" made more sense in my head - what I was thinking about were the mainstream/media perceptions that high levels of Asian immigrants were inherently bad, rather than the numbers being inaccurate, but I seem to have left out something vital there