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New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Elder, Chris. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1MBN; DQ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 890.
New Zealand’s China Experience collects 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, and includes photographs by Brian Brake, George Silk, and Tom Hutchins, and three works by the contemporary artist Kerry Ann Lee. This unique collection brings together history from an 1823 report pointing to the importance of the Chinese market, to firsthand reports of the bombing of Shanghai from Yunan caves. ... Read more
New Zealand’s China Experience collects 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, and includes photographs by Brian Brake, George Silk, and Tom Hutchins, and three works by the contemporary artist Kerry Ann Lee. This unique collection brings together history from an 1823 report pointing to the importance of the Chinese market, to firsthand reports of the bombing of Shanghai from Yunan caves. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9780864738370
SKU
V9780864738370
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-20
About
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.
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