Being Maori-Chinese by Manying Ip

Being Maori-Chinese by Manying Ip

Author:Manying Ip [Manying Ip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
ISBN: 9781869406103
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00


I wasn’t too worried about communism, I was aware of some hardship, but it was quiet and comparatively peaceful in the villages at that time.

Growing up in Māngere

Māngere was (and still is) a market-gardening centre with a number of Chinese families living there. There were also Māori and Indian families at the schools that Lily attended.

The Chinese community was small and very tight-knit. Families would know each other well. Contact with Pākehā was discouraged, but contact with Māori was a reality for Lily even when she was growing up in South Auckland. That was long before she met future husband David.



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