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Farewell Guangdong : Refugee Wives And Children Arrive In Aotearoa New Zealand 1939-1941
Hardback Edition: 1
This book contains shared stories of Chinese wives and children who fled the Sino-Japanese War during the invasion and occupation of their Guangdong homeland from 1937 to 1945. In February 1939, the New Zealand Government approved a concession permitting 256 wives and 244 children to take refuge temporarily in Aotearoa New Zealand. This significant group of wives and children, along with their sons and daughters born in New Zealand, faced the uncertainty of deportation for seven or eight years before the Government approved their permanent residency in July 1947. Now reassured that they could remain with their husbands in locations throughout Aotearoa, these families - the genesis of settler Chinese communities - were contributing to all facets of New Zealand life within a generation.
Author Lily Lee was the first of four siblings born in Auckland to refugee mother Ho Shew Shee from Chung Shan, Guangdong. Lily was educated at Epsom Girls Grammar School, graduated in Geography from Auckland University and trained as a teacher in 1961. She joined the Ministry of Education in 1988 and held senior positions until her retirement in 2005. In 2012 she co-authored Sons of the Soil: Chinese Market Gardeners in New Zealand. Lily and her colleagues with contributions from the families, have compiled this valuable historical record.
Publisher : Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trus
Pages : 576
Publication date : 2021
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, New Zealand, NZ History