The Chinese people came to New Zealand via Dunedin in the South Island. Here, they were forced to work as miners and were subjected to heavy discrimination and racism from the locals. All Chinese immigrants, until a few decades ago, had to pay a toll fee for entering the country.
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The Chinese settled in Otago, New Zealand because the Chinese wanted to work in the gold mines to get rich and sell on the black market.
the Chinese community in new zealand was predominatly male until after the second world war.
The early Chinese migrants have contributed to New Zealand society in various ways. They have participated in most of development processes since they have been in New Zealand for more than a century. The Chinese are particularly involved in the industrial processes.
they faced sinophobia
Chinese gooseberries, better known as the kiwi friut, are mainly from New Zealand.
One is Chinese and one is New Zealander.
No, kiwi (the bird) come from New Zealand and they are native to New Zealand. Kiwifruit comes from New Zealand also, but they are also called the Chinese Gooseberry.
The Chinese came to New Zealand to work in the Otago goldfields.They came from Canton, in China, around 1865.
According to New Zealand History: In the 1870s and 1880s, several thousand Chinese men, mostly from the Guangdong province, migrated to New Zealand to work on the South Island goldfields. Although the first Chinese migrants had been invited by the Otago Provincial government they quickly became the target of hostility from white settlers and laws were enacted specifically to discourage them from coming to New Zealand.
The Chinese Educational system is non-existant
Chinese goosberies are actually kiwi fruit and they come from New Zealand.