Golden Enterprise: New Zealand Chinese Merchants 1860s-1970s

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Cantonese merchants facilitated early Chinese immigration to New Zealand and their social and business networks laid the foundation of the Chinese community in the South Pacific. They played a major role in the making of Chinese New Zealanders, against the background of New Zealand's changing relationships with China, Britain and beyond.
This book revisits New Zealand Chinese history from the 1860s to the 1970s. Commissioned by the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust, this reader-friendly book will appeal to both academics and to the general public with interests in New Zealand history and overseas Chinese history.
Dr Phoebe H. Li
Phoebe received her PhD from the University of Auckland in 2010, held research positions at the University of Auckland and Tsinghua University in Beijing between 2009 and 2018, and is now an independent historian. Her research interests include the Chinese Diaspora in Australasia, Sino-British relationships and politics of the late Qing Empire.
Her research publications include A Virtual Chinatown: the Diasporic Mediasphere of Chinese Migrants in New Zealand ( Brill: 2013), Recollections of a Distant Shore: New Zealand Chinese in Historical Images (co-authored with John B. Turner, Social Sciences Academic Press: 2017), several chapters in ( , , : 2020) and a number of journal articles and other book chapters.
She was the principal curator of the photographic exhibition on New Zealand Chinese history "Recollections of Distant Shores'' held at the Overseas Chinese Museum of China in Beijing, and later under the title "Being Chinese in Aotearoa" at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Waitangi Treaty Ground Museum and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington between 2016 and 2020.

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Dr Phoebe H. Li
Phoebe received her PhD from the University of Auckland in 2010, held research positions at the University of Auckland and Tsinghua University in Beijing between 2009 and 2018, and is now an independent historian. Her research interests include the Chinese Diaspora in Australasia, Sino-British relationships and politics of the late Qing Empire.
Her research publications include A Virtual Chinatown: the Diasporic Mediasphere of Chinese Migrants in New Zealand ( Brill: 2013), Recollections of a Distant Shore: New Zealand Chinese in Historical Images (co-authored with John B. Turner, Social Sciences Academic Press: 2017), several chapters in ( , , : 2020) and a number of journal articles and other book chapters.
She was the principal curator of the photographic exhibition on New Zealand Chinese history "Recollections of Distant Shores'' held at the Overseas Chinese Museum of China in Beijing, and later under the title "Being Chinese in Aotearoa" at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Waitangi Treaty Ground Museum and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington between 2016 and 2020.