Story: Asia and New Zealand

More links and websites

• Asia New Zealand Foundation

  The foundation aims to build New Zealanders’ knowledge and understanding of Asian countries.

• New Zealand Asian Studies Society

  The society fosters research into Asian societies and civilisations, and encourages the spread of such information.

• New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade

  This page on the ministry’s website is a good source of information about issues and current events relating to New Zealand’s relations with Asia.

• Office of Ethnic Communities

  The office’s site includes links to diverse Asian organisations around New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Ballantyne, Tony, and Moloughney, Brian. Disputed histories: imagining New Zealand’s past. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2006.

• Ip, Manying. The dragon and the taniwha: Māori and Chinese in New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2009.

• Johnson, Henry and Moloughney, Brian, eds. Asia in the making of New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.

• McKinnon, Malcolm. Immigrants and citizens: New Zealanders and Asian immigration in historical context. Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 1996.

• Murphy, Nigel. The poll-tax in New Zealand: a research paper commissioned by the New Zealand Chinese Association. Wellington: Office of External Affairs, 1994.

• Murphy, Nigel and Manying Ip. Aliens at my table: Asians as New Zealanders see them. Auckland: Penguin, 2005.