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Being Chinese : (Record no. 36771)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field ocn945798813
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20160602114957.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 160324s2016 nz 000 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780947492380
Qualifying information Paperback
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0947492380
029 0# - (OCLC)
OCLC library identifier NZ1
System control number 16303027
029 1# - (OCLC)
OCLC library identifier NZ1
System control number 16311160
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)945798813
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency Nz
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency NZTPP
Modifying agency Z5U
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.8951093
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wong, Helene.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Being Chinese :
Remainder of title A New Zealander's Story /
Statement of responsibility, etc Helene Wong
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Wellington :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Bridget Williams Books ,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2016
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 240 p. ;
Dimensions 240 x 170mm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This is the story of a quest I began three decades ago - the search for my Chinese identity. The path I travelled was not linear, and the years brought pain as well as joy. But, while this is a narrative about being Chinese and also a New Zealander, I know that the search for purpose and meaning in life is universal. I hope that others in our culturally diverse society will find their own ways to embark on that same journey. Helene Wong was born in New Zealand in 1949, to parents whose families had emigrated from China one or two generations earlier. Preferring invisibility, she grew up resisting her Chinese identity. But in 1980 she travelled to her father's home village in southern China and came face to face with her ancestral past. What followed was a journey to come to terms with 'being Chinese'. Helene Wong writes eloquently about her New Zealand childhood, about student life in the 1960s, and coming of age in Muldoon's New Zealand. What her Chinese ancestry means to her gradually illuminates the book as it sheds new light on her own life. Drawing on her experience of writing for New Zealand films, she takes the narrative forward through the places of her family's history - the ancestral village of Sha Tou in Zengcheng county, the rural town of Utiku where the Wongs ran a thriving business, the Lower Hutt suburbs of her childhood, and Avalon and Naenae.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wong, Helene.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Chinese
Geographic subdivision New Zealand.
9 (RLIN) 19973
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element National characteristics, Chinese.
9 (RLIN) 19974
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Non-Fiction - New Zealand
948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN)
h (OCLC) NO HOLDINGS IN NZWMT - 14 OTHER HOLDINGS
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan Non Fiction Waimate Waimate Non-Fiction 02/06/2016 ALLB 25.00 1 305.8951093 a00713388 09/10/2019 19/05/2018 25.00 02/06/2016 Non-Fiction - New Zealand Not for loan
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