New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success

New Zealand’s China Experience collects fiction, poetry, personal accounts, historical narrative, anecdotes, transcribed oral narratives, newspaper articles and more, all bearing in one way or another on New Zealand perceptions of China and contacts with China and the Chinese. The book is richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, posters, and cartoons, and includes photographs by Brian Brake, George Silk, and Tom Hutchins, and three works by the contemporary artist Kerry Ann Lee. This unique collection brings together history from an 1823 report pointing to the importance of the Chinese market, to firsthand reports of the bombing of Shanghai from Yunan caves. The book also marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and China in December 1972.

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New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success

New Zealand’s China Experience collects fiction, poetry, personal accounts, historical narrative, anecdotes, transcribed oral narratives, newspaper articles and more, all bearing in one way or another on New Zealand perceptions of China and contacts with China and the Chinese. The book is richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, posters, and cartoons, and includes photographs by Brian Brake, George Silk, and Tom Hutchins, and three works by the contemporary artist Kerry Ann Lee. This unique collection brings together history from an 1823 report pointing to the importance of the Chinese market, to firsthand reports of the bombing of Shanghai from Yunan caves. The book also marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and China in December 1972.

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New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success

New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success

by Chris Elder
New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success

New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success

by Chris Elder

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New Zealand’s China Experience collects fiction, poetry, personal accounts, historical narrative, anecdotes, transcribed oral narratives, newspaper articles and more, all bearing in one way or another on New Zealand perceptions of China and contacts with China and the Chinese. The book is richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, posters, and cartoons, and includes photographs by Brian Brake, George Silk, and Tom Hutchins, and three works by the contemporary artist Kerry Ann Lee. This unique collection brings together history from an 1823 report pointing to the importance of the Chinese market, to firsthand reports of the bombing of Shanghai from Yunan caves. The book also marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and China in December 1972.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780864738370
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Publication date: 06/01/2013
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Chris Elder is the editor of China’s Treaty Ports: Half Love and Half Hate and Old Peking: City of the Ruler of the World. He has researched extensively New Zealand’s early relations with China, and written a number of articles and research papers on the subject, and he has served twice in the New Zealand Embassy in Beijing.
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