Cantonese merchants facilitated early Chinese immigration to New Zealand and played a major role in the making of Chinese New Zealanders, against the background of New Zealand's shifting relationships with China, Britain and beyond. From the first Chinese arrivals to the South Island, Dr Phoebe Li will elaborate on Chinese business and enterprise in the lower North Island from the 1870s, and the impact of Palmerston North being a major railway junction.
Golden Enterprise: New Zealand Chinese Merchants 1860s-1970s (Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust) has been longlisted in the BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction category of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Copies of the book will be available for sale through the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust.
