Author(s): Duncan Campbell (ed.); Brian Moloughney (ed.)

Culture | History | Politics | China | Aotearoa New Zealand Non-Fiction

December 2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of diplomatic relationsbetween China and New Zealand. In 1972, when the communiqué was signed, itmarked the end of New Zealand's keeping China at arm's length, in deference to theUnited States' unwillingness to treat with it. In 2022, the United States and Chinaare once again at odds, and China is our largest trading partner. The stand-offbetween the two presents a difficult balancing act for small nations such as NewZealand.Tolerance and care, and perhaps benevolence as well, will be needed as NewZealand as a nation, and New Zealanders as individuals, go forward in managing arelationship that has become too complex to be capable of easy solutions, and tooimportant to be left to chance.In this collection of 50 texts, which range from essays to poems, a wide range ofauthors, from diplomats and students to politicians, academics and businesspeople,reflect on their experiences of and in China over the last half century. They form a unique insight into the changing face of what is now one of the world's greatestpowers, and our relationship with it. Authors include Hone Tuwhare, Nina Mingya Powles, John McKinnon,

Contents: Encountering China | 11 Chris Elder Beginnings Kwantung Guest House: Canton | 23 Hone Tuwhare Scoria, Loess, Silt: Reflections on the Human Geologies of South Auckland and North China | 25 Lewis Mayo Speaking Half-truth to Power | 33 Chris Elder Muldoon Meets Deng, Autumn 1980 | 39 Nick Bridge The Canton Trade Fair, 1977: Pages from a Diary | 43 Leo Haks Finding China: Relationships and Myself | 50 James Ng Images for Sages | 56 Diana Bridge China, 'A Tired Old Country'? The Dangers of Group Thinking | 67 Michael Powles Inside China as an Outsider | 74 John McKinnon Maori Business Relationships with China | 82 Mavis Mullins People A Haunted Taste | 96 Jacob Edmond Finding Dr Li Lairong: Pioneer of New Zealand-China Science Co-operation | 104 Tony Browne Madame Sun Yat-sen's Apple Pie for Pudding | 111 Mary Roberts-Schirato Vic Wilcox, the People's Republic of China and the New Zealand Communist Movement | 118 Kerry Taylor Learning from Dai Qing | 125 Pauline Keating Poets in Exile: Yang Lian and Gu Cheng in Auckland | 133 Hilary Chung Hong Kong Revisited | 136 John Needham A New Kiwi Chinese Celebrates 50 Years of Relations | 142 Bo Li Where Shi Le Used to Hunt | 147 Michael Radich Lost in Shanghai | 153 Alison Wong Place The Temples of Xi'an | 160 Margaret T. South 'The Earl of Zheng Overcame Duan in Yan': China's Past in Our Futures | 165 Duncan Campbell Stages of Enlightenment | 173 Amanda Jack Song Dynasty Dragon Kiln Revival | 179 Peter Holmes Return to Liangzhu | 187 Wen Chin Powles Reflections on Being a Foreign Student in Shanghai in the 1980s | 195 Rebecca Needham 1989: Beijing Under Martial Law | 202 Brian Moloughney Winter (Season of Baby Mandarins, Apples): Spring Onion Oil Noodles | 208 Nina Mingya Powles Urumchi and the World in 2004 | 212 Joe Lawson Chengdu: 12 May 2008 | 218 Andrew Wilford Occasion Memories of a Polisher in Beijing | 224 Phillip Mann Whakawhanaungatanga | 231 Meng Foon The Poll Tax Apology and Reconciliation | 239 Esther Fung 1989 Matters | 246 Brenda (Englefield) Sabatier Crossing the 'Chinese Bridge' | 253 Thomas Nicholls Where It All Started: The Class of '06 and the First China Field Study Course in Beijing | 260 Xiaoming Huang Poets on Yellow Mountain | 267 Murray Edmond 10,000 Lights Across the City : Lantern Festivals and Their Role in New Zealand-China Relations | 275 James To Making Friends: A China Journey Spanning 30 Years | 283 Garth Fraser Revisiting China for the First Time | 291 Jason Young Transformations Crows, Ducklings and Kiwis: New Zealand in Chinese Minds | 298 Paul Clark Two Decades of Development Work in West China | 304 Dave Bromwich Myths of Dumplings, Business and International Relations: Is it Time to Demystify? | 311 Hongzhi Gao Understanding Grandmother's Buddhism: Lessons for Respecting the Beliefs of Others in China | 318 Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa Bridges and Rainbows: Teaching Chinese Students in New Zealand | 326 Ellen Soulliere Between Imaginaries: Interconnections of a Samoan New Zealander with China | 335 Ashalyna Noa They Aren't Going to Take My Organs, Mum | 339 Adam Osborne-Smith Middle Kingdom, Middle Earth, My Adventure | 347 Luke Qin Reflections of a NZUSA Delegation Visitor, 1971 | 354 Philip S. Morrison A Young China-watcher's Take on a Changing China | 361 Alex Smith About the Contributors | 368 Acknowledgements | 385 Index | 387

Author Biography: Duncan Campbell studied Mandarin in Malaysia after graduating in English and History from Victoria University of Wellington. Between 1976-78, he was a student in the People's Republic of China. Since then, he has taught (Chinese language, modern and classical; Chinese literature, modern and classical; and aspects of Chinese history and civilisation) at the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, and the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2015, he was the Curator of the Chinese Garden with the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, USA. His research focuses on the late imperial period of China's long history. Brian Moloughney After completing an MA in Chinese history from the University of Canterbury, Brian Moloughney had the good fortune to be awarded a CHEP scholarship, which enabled him to live and study for a period in Nanjing. Between 1993 and 2022 he has taught Chinese history at the University of Otago.