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GREYS AVENUE AND THE AUCKLAND CHINESE SCENE
1890 ¨C1960¡¯s
Paper presented at the ¡®Crouching TigerHidden Banana Conference,
AUT, Auckland 4 June,2005
There is a saying ¡°Wherever ocean waves touch; there are Overseas Chinese¡±. So it was in 19th Century New Zealand. Within thirty years of European settlement the Chinese arrived to become the earliest non-Polynesian, non-European arrivals.
GREYS AVENUE AND THE AUCKLAND CHINESE SCENE
1890 ¨C1960¡¯s
Paper presented at the ¡®Crouching TigerHidden Banana Conference,
AUT, Auckland 4 June,2005
There is a saying ¡°Wherever ocean waves touch; there are Overseas Chinese¡±. So it was in 19th Century New Zealand. Within thirty years of European settlement the Chinese arrived to become the earliest non-Polynesian, non-European arrivals.