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Cantonese merchants facilitated early Chinese immigration to New Zealand and their
social and business networks laid the foundation of the Chinese community in the
South Pacific. Zooming in on these merchants' dynamic roles in the making of
Chinese New Zealanders through a lens of New Zealand's changing relationships with
China, Britain and beyond, this book commissioned by the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage
Trust revisits New Zealand Chinese history from the 1860s to the 1970s. /p
Dr Phoebe H. Li was the principal curator for the popular photographic exhibition
Being Chinese in Aotearoa /i , which was held at the Overseas Chinese History
Museum of China in Beijing, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Waitangi Treaty
Ground Museum and New Zealand Portrait Gallery between 2017 and 2020 /