Dragons on the Long White Cloud - The Making of Chinese New Zealanders

Secondhand wear. Crease in cover and foxing on pages. Sun damage to cover.

Tandem Press 1996 edition
The Chinese have been in New Zealand for over 150 years, from the days of the Otago gold-rushes. Since then, this largely self-contained community has flourished and established itself in its country of adoption. It became the `Model Minority' - law-abiding, hardworking, humble and inoffensive. But with its distant cultural origins, how has this highly visible racial minority survived in a totally different world that often discriminated against them. And how has the significant Asian immigration of the 1990s affected the descendants of the earlier settlers?...