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Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic

Autor Duncan Campbell, Brian Moloughney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 dec 2022
December 2022 is the fiftieth anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and New Zealand. This collection of 50 texts, written by diplomats and poets, politicians and academics, students and businesspeople, reflects on personal experiences of China over the last half century. It offers a unique insight into the changing face of what is now one of the world’s great powers, and our relationship with it. Contributors include Hone Tuwhare, Nina Mingya Powles, John McKinnon, James Ng, Alison Wong, Murray Edmond, Meng Foon and Pauline Keating.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781991016157
ISBN-10: 1991016158
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 50 b/w images
Dimensiuni: 148 x 200 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Massey University Press
Colecția Massey University Press
Locul publicării:Auckland, New Zealand

Cuprins

Encountering China | 11
Chris Elder
初 Beginnings
Kwantung Guest House: Canton | 23
Hone Tuwhare
Scoria, Loess, Silt: Reflections on the Human Geologies of South Auckland and North China | 25
Lewis Mayo
Speaking Half-truth to Power | 33
Chris Elder
Muldoon Meets Deng, Autumn 1980 | 39
Nick Bridge
The Canton Trade Fair, 1977: Pages from a Diary | 43
Leo Haks
Finding China: Relationships and Myself | 50
James Ng
Images for Sages | 56
Diana Bridge
China, ‘A Tired Old Country’? The Dangers of Group Thinking | 67
Michael Powles
Inside China as an Outsider | 74
John McKinnon
Māori Business Relationships with China | 82
Mavis Mullin
人 People
A Haunted Taste | 96
Jacob Edmond
Finding Dr Li Lairong: Pioneer of New Zealand–China Science Co-operation | 104
Tony Browne
Madame Sun Yat-sen’s Apple Pie for Pudding | 111
Mary Roberts-Schirato
Vic Wilcox, the People’s Republic of China and the New Zealand Communist Movement | 118
Kerry Taylor
Learning from Dai Qing | 125
Pauline Keating
Poets in Exile: Yang Lian and Gu Cheng in Auckland | 133
Hilary Chung
Hong Kong Revisited | 136
John Needham
A New Kiwi Chinese Celebrates 50 Years of Relations | 142
Bo Li
Where Shi Le Used to Hunt | 147
Michael Radich
Lost in Shanghai | 153
Alison Wong
地 Place
The Temples of Xi’an | 160
Margaret T. South
‘The Earl of Zheng Overcame Duan in Yan’: China’s Past in Our Futures | 165
Duncan Campbell
Stages of Enlightenment | 173
Amanda Jack
Song Dynasty Dragon Kiln Revival | 179
Peter Holmes
Return to Liangzhu | 187
Wen Chin Powles
Reflections on Being a Foreign Student in Shanghai in the 1980s | 195
Rebecca Needham
1989: Beijing Under Martial Law | 202
Brian Moloughney
Winter (Season of Baby Mandarins, Apples): Spring Onion Oil Noodles 葱油拌面 | 208
Nina Mingya Powles
Urumchi and the World in 2004 | 212
Joe Lawson
Chengdu: 12 May 2008 | 218
Andrew Wilford
事 Occasion
Memories of a Polisher in Beijing | 224
Phillip Mann
Whakawhanaungatanga | 231
Meng Foon
The Poll Tax Apology and Reconciliation | 239
Esther Fung
1989 Matters | 246
Brenda (Englefield) Sabatier Crossing the ‘Chinese Bridge’ | 253
Thomas Nicholls
Where It All Started: The Class of ’06 and the First China Field Study Course in Beijing | 260
Xiaoming Huang
Poets on Yellow Mountain | 267
Murray Edmond
10,000 Lights Across the City 万家灯火: Lantern Festivals and Their Role in New Zealand–China Relations | 275
James To
Making Friends: A China Journey Spanning 30 Years | 283
Garth Fraser
Revisiting China for the First Time | 291
Jason Young
轉 Transformations
Crows, Ducklings and Kiwis: New Zealand in Chinese Minds | 298
Paul Clark
Two Decades of Development Work in West China | 304
Dave Bromwich
Myths of Dumplings, Business and International Relations: Is it Time to Demystify? | 311
Hongzhi Gao
Understanding Grandmother’s Buddhism: Lessons for Respecting the Beliefs of Others in China | 318
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
Bridges and Rainbows: Teaching Chinese Students in New Zealand | 326
Ellen Soullière
Between Imaginaries: Interconnections of a Samoan New Zealander with China | 335
Ashalyna Noa
They Aren’t Going to Take My Organs, Mum | 339
Adam Osborne-Smith
Middle Kingdom, Middle Earth, My Adventure | 347
Luke Qin
Reflections of a NZUSA Delegation Visitor, 1971 | 354
Philip S. Morrison
A Young China-watcher’s Take on a Changing China | 361
Alex Smith
About the Contributors | 368
Acknowledgements | 385
Index | 387

Recenzii

Individually these memoirs are absorbing and enjoyable. Collectively the book gives a picture of the breadth and depth of the relationship that is often overlooked . . . This book will now be an important part of the primary record for New Zealand.