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

A collection of 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.

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.

Summary

A collection of 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.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Elder
• Assisted by: Chris Elder (Editor)
• Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2013
• EAN: 9780864738370
• ISBN: 978-0-86473-837-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 241 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 839 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic