The History of Chinese Growers in NZ

[helen]

Special Book Project: The History of Chinese Growers in NZ
Book 1: Sons Of The Soil
Chinese Market Gardeners in New Zealand
Book 2: Success Through Adversity
A History of the Dominion Federation of New Zealand Chinese
Commercial Growers

This book will be launched 21 July 2012, in Auckland

www.nzchinese.org.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79&Itemid=56

[helen]

The book launch was today - and it's a fantastic set of books.

www.sonsofthesoil.co.nz/

[helen]

I have just finished reading Success Through Adversity

And guess what - I have just found out where my Paternal grandmother comes from - Go Yi - which is near my Grandfather's village of Sa Chuen, Jungseng.

Thank goodness for researchers and records kept by the owner Jack Turner, of the Auction house, Turners and Growers. He reorded the names, Chinese characters and villages, and period of time they were in the market garden business.


Sharon - we're related Sharon and I visited the village a few years back - in the pouring rain. A very nice place.

[helen]

Lily Lee and Howe Young

from Nine To Noon on Tuesday 17 July 2012

A new social history of Chinese market gardeners in NZ Lily is the daughter of a Chinese Market gardening family and the author of the book, Sons of the Soil - Chinese Market Gardeners in New Zealand. Howe is the son of a Chinese market gardening family and a Pukekohe market gardener himself. He is also the CEO of the Dominion Federation of NZ Chinese Commercial Growers.

www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2525324/lily-lee-and-howe-young

[helen]

www.country99tv.co.nz/news/latest-news/2012/8/10/sons-of-the-soil---a-150-year-story