Professor Wu Xiaoan Visits Massey University as a NZC Visiting Fellow 

14/01/2019 - Professor Wu Xiaoan from the Department of History, Peking University finished his research trip to Massey University as a New Zealand Centre Visiting Fellow.

From 1 July 2018 to 16 August 2018 Professor Wu Xiaoan of the Department of History, Peking University, visited Massey University as a visiting fellow in association with Dr. Liangni Sally Liu, a senior lecturer of the School of Humanities of Massey University. Professor Wu Xiaoan’s visit and his collaborative research project with Dr Liangni Sally Liu was co-supported by Massey University’s research grants, including the International Visitor Research Fund (IVRF) and the Strategic Research Excellence Fund (SREF). 

As a joint research project based at Massey, Professor Wu Xiaoan and Dr Liangni Sally Liu developed a new programme entitled “From Dominion Road to Albany; from ethnic enclaves to suburban communities: Studying the changing patterns of new Chinese immigration from China to New Zealand”. Based on an in-depth community research, the new programme aims to reveal the changing immigration and settlement patterns of new Chinese immigrants to New Zealand. 

The research hypothesizes that new Chinese immigrants are not a homogeneous immigrant group. With three decades of immigration and settlement history, this immigrant group has become very diverse in many aspects of their identity and life. As a reflection of the rapid change of the Mainland Chinese society, different batches of new Chinese immigrants arrive in NZ in different time periods and carry distinctive characteristics. The proposed research will rationalize the sub-categorization and different generations of these new Chinese immigrants based on an ethnographic study in a particular suburb area in Albany, Auckland. The sub-categorization of the new Chinese immigrants from China reflects the changing positioning of China in the global economic-political structure.

During his visit, Professor Wu made a research seminar entitled “In Search of the Chinese Diaspora: A Historical Perspective” at the Albany Campus for the Social and Cultural Studies Seminar Series of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Massey University. 

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