The Dragon & the Taniwha

"How have two very different marginalised groups in New Zealand society - Māori and Chinese - interacted over the last 150 years? This important book, the result of a major grant from the Marsden Fund, looks at the relationship between the tangata whenua and the country's earliest and largest non-European immigrant group for the first time. Do Māori resent Chinese immigrants? Do Chinese New Zealanders understand the role of the tangata whenua? Have Māori and Chinese formed alliances based on common values and history? Contributors tackle such question from many angles. They analyse how Māori newspapers portrayed Chinese and how the Chinese media portray Māori; they examine the changing demography of the Chinese and Māori populations; they look at Māori-Chinese marriages and the ancient migration of both groups. The result is a rich portrait of the past and present of relationships between two important immigrant groups. Race relations in New Zealand have usually been examined in terms of Māori and Pakeha. By looking at Māori-Chinese relations, the Indigenous and the immigrant portrays a much richer and more complex social fabric, offering a nuanced study of contemporary shared identities"--Back Cover. "How have two very different marginalised groups in New Zealand society - Māori and Chinese - interacted over the last 150 years? This important book, the result of a major grant from the Marsden Fund, looks at the relationship between the tangata whenua and the country's earliest and largest non-European immigrant group for the first time. Do Māori resent Chinese immigrants? Do Chinese New Zealanders understand the role of the tangata whenua? Have Māori and Chinese formed alliances based on common values and history? Contributors tackle such question from many angles. They analyse how Māori newspapers portrayed Chinese and how the Chinese media portray Māori; they examine the changing demography of the Chinese and Māori populations; they look at Māori-Chinese marriages and the ancient migration of both groups. The result is a rich portrait of the past and present of relationships between two important immigrant groups. Race relations in New Zealand have usually been examined in terms of Māori and Pakeha. By looking at Māori-Chinese relations, the Indigenous and the immigrant portrays a much richer and more complex social fabric, offering a nuanced study of contemporary shared identities." -- Back Cover.