Te Hekenga Taikoa 紐華源流, brought to you by the New Zealand Chinese Association. Giving voice to our past for future generations.
Wellingtonian Bill Chun was working in a Kilbirnie box factory when he decided to enlist. He was sent to the Pacific as a war photographer.
Chinese miners were a significant part of Otago and West Coast goldfields. But they may not have come if it were not for the efforts of Melbourne businessman, Ho A Mei.
Fiesty and independent, New Zealand gave Annie Ah Long the opportunity to build her own life.
Thirty-six Chinese New Zealanders served in World War I. Most were the sons and grandsons of early Chinese settlers who had married European women in the mid to late 1800s. Four of these young men never returned.
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This building in central Wellington has its roots on the goldfields of Otago. The first Poon Fah clubhouse was built in 1869, and today's clubrooms are just as busy.
Chinese have been establishing market gardens since they first arrived in Aotearoa. Since the 1920s Pukekohe has been a prime gardening site. There are still gardening families there today.
In March 1960 the Auckland Chinese Hall Inc (ACH) was formally incorporated. It's still going today as the Auckland Chinese Community Centre, bringing people together from all over Tāmaki Makarau.
Laura Sew Hoy shows us her great great great grandfather's Ōtepoti warehouse built in 1895 and the last surviving remnant of a thriving Chinese commercial centre in the middle of the city.
