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001			ocn945798813
003			OCoLC
005			20160602114957.0
008			160324s2016 nz 000 0 eng
020			_a9780947492380 _qPaperback
020			_a0947492380
029	0		_aNZ1 _b16303027
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035			_a(OCoLC)945798813
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082	0	4	_a305.8951093 _223
100	1		_aWong, Helene.
245	1	0	_aBeing Chinese : _bA New Zealander's Story / _cHelene Wong
260			_aWellington : _bBridget Williams Books , _c2016
300			_a240 p. ; _c240 x 170mm
500			_aPaperback
520			_aThis 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	1	0	_aWong, Helene.
650		0	_aChinese _zNew Zealand. _919973
650		0	_aNational characteristics, Chinese. _919974
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