NZCA Announces New Book: Chinese ANZACs

NZCA Announces New Book: Chinese ANZACs

The New Zealand Chinese Association (NZCA) announces the publication of its latest book – Alastair Kennedy’s Chinese ANZACs: Australians of Chinese Descent in the Defence Forces 1885-1919 - Second Edition revised to include New Zealand-born Chinese of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914-1919.

Chinese ANZACs highlights the commitment of early Australian and New Zealand Chinese in serving their respective countries and the British Empire. It comprises essays on military history, individual biographies, and is supplemented with many illustrations, photos, and artwork.

This beautiful hard cover edition includes a special chapter on over thirty New Zealand-born Chinese who enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Their stories have been compiled with assistance from the Auckland War Memorial Museum and Dunedin-based historian Dr James Ng.

This publication has been made possible with the support of the New Zealand Consul-General in Guangzhou, Rebecca Needham, and part-funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s War Commemoration budget.

Alastair Kennedy’s book will appeal to those interested in New Zealand Chinese history, the First World War, New Zealand military history, as well as the families of those mentioned in his research.

An official national launch of this book will take place at the Dominion Museum, Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington on March 8 2016 as part of First World War centenary commemorations. This will be followed by local book launches organized by NZCA’s fourteen branches across New Zealand.

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