*Lucy Mackintosh Local, or place-based history, is often dismissed by academic historians as lacking an ‘analytical edge’, or as presenting places as fixed, stable entities that do not relate to national questions. But by relegating local narratives to a field outside...
by Linda Bryder* In July 2021 I was invited to speak at an urban history symposium in Palmerston North about the history of ‘Auckland: The Big Smoke’. Auckland has always been my home; my parents arrived in Auckland in 1950 as Danish immigrants, after a brief...
by Kyra Maquiso* JAFAS (2000)[1] is not, unfortunately, a documentary on the much-loved orange candy. Indeed, the South Islanders of this documentary did not find anything sweet or delightful about their subject; nor did they sugar-coat any of their opinions about...
Part Three The Borders of Identity: Illusions in Auckland’s Chinese History Part One The Standing Point: Studying the History of Auckland’s Chinese People Part Two Auckland’s Chinese: Home, Youth and Joy in Turbulence by Hanna Lu* Let’s start with an end. ‘Chinatown’,...
Part Two Auckland’s Chinese: Home, Youth and Joy in Turbulence Part One: The Standing Point: Studying the History of Auckland’s Chinese People Part Three: The Borders of Identity: Illusions in Auckland’s Chinese History by Hanna Lu* you have to understand,that...
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