Week 9: Asian Aotearoa Histories

ZOOM SESSION

What time and when: 2:45pm - 5pm on the 26th of September 2022

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In the 'Aliens in an imagined land' by Kerry Ann Lee, is a one-page summary of the racial discrimination between earlier settlers and Chinese because they became economic (social science: trade; products; services; etc.) competitors for gold in the mines. And within that time period the word of Chinese dealing with the experience that may have been to serve as a warning in the colony with the settlement, had spread to the ears of those who are overseas (Australia and America).

“Māori-Chinese encounters and New Zealand multi-cultural society”. Manying Ip. Research works wonders. 2011, Auckland University.

On a different resource which I find interesting are the Māori Chinese encounters and the multiculture society. The Māori were described as the first nation (being tangata-whenua) and the Chinese as a classic group of immigrants. According to Manying Ip, Māori and Chinese living side by side, have close connections (relationship, intermarriage) and have supported one another because of unpleasant situations. Māori suffering from economics and deprivation, and the Chinese with legislative discrimination.

Manying Ip and her group had interacted with more than hundreds of Māori, Chinese, Māori Chinese and tauiwi(foreigners) who have various interactions with them for a piece of research for Auckland University to publish books 'Being Māori Chinese', a book about the relationship between the Māori and the Chinese as a way forward for New Zealand biculturalism. Manying Ip said that Māori and Chinese have conflict, but in her point of view it isn't because she believes that Māori and Chinese can work together since the early colonization, that there could be more further understanding between the two because it is crucial for New Zealand's national identity to include the pākehā, Māori and Asians.

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