Windows on a Chinese Past - Volume 2

Otago Heritage Books, 1995. Red boards are clean and bright. Contents tight and clean. Signed by James Ng on title page. No other inscriptions or markings. Dust jacket has some fading and there is a mark on the rear. This is a heavy book so pleased check postage with bookseller.

This second volume in a four volume set provides a detailed description of the community of around 500 Chinese at Round Hill, Southland, the most important goldfield in New Zealand. It also looks at intermarriage between Chinese and European and Maori New Zealanders. Ng tackles the problems of the opium trade and records the seedier side fo Chinese lodging houses and gambling dens.