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Appo Hocton (c.1823–26 September 1920), Chinese-born New Zealand servant, landlord, carter and farmer [3] Ron Sang architect, art collector, art exhibitor and publisher of New Zealand art books Charles Sew Hoy (1836–1901), merchant, gold prospector, and Chinese leader
Unui Doo (born Chan Yau-nui; c. 1874 – 18 August 1940) was a Chinese New Zealand businesswoman and shopkeeper. Born in Xinhui, Guangdong, she immigrated to New Zealand in 1915. She managed a grocery store in Auckland that served as a social centre for the Chinese community. Known as "Grandmother Doo", she was the matriarch of the Doo clan and ...
The proportion of Chinese New Zealanders born overseas was 73.3%, compared with 27.1% for all ethnicities. Over half (58.3%) of those born in New Zealand were aged under 15. [11] The majority of Chinese New Zealanders were from Mainland China, Taiwan made up a third of all immigrants and ten percent came from Malaysia.
At the 2023 census, 861,573 New Zealanders identified as being of Asian ethnicity, making up 17.3% of New Zealand's population. [3] The first Asians in New Zealand were Chinese workers who migrated to New Zealand to work in the gold mines in the 1860s. The modern period of Asian immigration began in the 1970s when New Zealand relaxed its ...
Ip's PhD thesis was published by Beijing Commercial Press in 1985, and she has continued to study and publish on the Chinese diaspora, especially in relation to the identity of Chinese New Zealanders and New Zealand relationships with Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. [4] Ip was appointed to the Human Rights Commission in 2003. [4]
Asian New Zealanders are a pan-ethnic group deriving from various nations in the Asian continent, such as Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese or their descendants. Middle Eastern, Latin American, African (MELAA), and Caribbean ethnicities constitute a very small remainder of the population.
Lee is a third-generation Chinese New Zealander; her forebears arrived in Otago, New Zealand in the 1930s. [12] She was born in Wellington, where her family has lived since the late 1940s; her parents ran the Gold Coin Cafe at 296 Willis Street from 1978 to 1986.
Rewi Alley QSO MM (known in China as 路易•艾黎, Lùyì Aìlí, 2 December 1897 – 27 December 1987) was a New Zealand-born writer and political activist. A member of the Chinese Communist Party, he dedicated 60 years of his life to the cause and was a key figure in the establishment of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives and technical training schools, including the Bailie Schools and Peili ...