Asian Aotearoa Histories
Pre-work – videos
āMÄori-Chinese encounters and New Zealand multi-cultural societyā. Manying Ip. Research works wonders. 2011, Auckland University.
Interviewed 100+ people.
Lots of NZ people with Chinese and MÄori.
Multi-cultural society is broader than people think.
Needs to be more understanding of Asian community in NZ.
āDocumentary Edge Online Video Poetry Slam 2012: Chinglish: Renee Liangā. 2012, Documentary Edge.
People’s perceptions that people who are Asian were not born here?
“Your English is good, for a foreigner…”
āCommunity arts case study: āAlice Cantonās OTHER [CHINESE]āā. Jeff Smith, Deep Animation (filmmakers). 2018, New Zealand on Air.
Classroom notes
Economic downturn in China.
Prompted a diaspora to other countries.
Watching video #1 again
Social deprivation.
Legislative discrimination.
Inter-marriage.
This was one of first pieces of research.
Way forwards is for Chinese and Maori to work together.
National identity includes Pakeha, MÄori, and Asians.
Reflecting on this image

Portrayal of Asian man as a monster.
Male attacker.
MÄori woman representing NZ?
MÄori as victims?
Adaptation of other country’s racist traits.
Insecurity?
Why opium? Was that long dead by 1907?
Why octopus?
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=cola_ug_research
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/nationalinterest/chinese-octopus/3075324
https://streetsofsalem.com/2013/01/22/teaching-with-tentacles/
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