Unfolding history, evolving identity : the Chinese in New Zealand / edited by Manying Ip.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Manying Ip -- PART I: FIRST ENCOUNTERS, 1860S-1920S -- Sojourner experience: the Cantonese goldseekers in New Zealand, 1865-1901 / James Ng -- Traces of the past: archaeological insights into the New Zealand Chinese experience in Southern New Zealand / Neville A. Ritchie -- Joe Lum v. the Attorney General: the politics of exclusion / Nigel Murphy -- PART II: HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS, 1920S-1980S -- Remembering Chinatown: Haining Street of Wellington / Lynette Shum -- Eating porkbones and puha with chopsticks: Maori-Chinese constructions / Jenny Bol Jun Lee -- Place to stand: the Chun family experience / Kirsten Wong -- PART III: NEW FACES, 1987-2003 -- Untapped talents: the employment and settlement experiences of skilled Chinese in New Zealand / Anne Henderson -- Reluctant exiles of roaming transnationals? The Hong Kong Chinese in New Zealand / Elsie Ho -- Seeking the last Utopia: the Taiwanese in New Zealand / Manying Ip -- PART IV: STANDING UP -- Coping with insecurity: everyday experiences of Chinese New Zealanders / Beven Yee -- Education, politics and Chinese New Zealander identities: the case of the 1995 Epsom Normal Primary Schools' 'residency clause and English test' / David Pang -- Is saying sorry enough? / Gilbert Wong -- APPENDIX: Present archival and library resources on the study of the Chinese in New Zealand, including recent Asian immigrants / Nigel Murphy.

"[An] overview of the history and experience of Chinese in New Zealand up to the present day. ... Historical topics range from the Chinese on the goldfields to a study of Wellington's 'Chinatown' to studies of settler families; later chapters study aspects of recent Chinese immigration such as transnationalism and the underemployment of skilled people; a final section discusses political strategies adopted by the Chinese inlcuding an analysis of the search for an apology for the wrongs inflicted by the historical poll tax"--Page 4 of cover.