Encountering China 11 Chris Elder Beginnings Kwantung Guest House: Canton 23 Hone Tuwhare Scoria, Loess, Silt: Reflections on the Human Geologies of South Auckland and North China 25 Lewis Mayo Speaking Half-truth to Power 33 Chris Elder Muldoon Meets Deng, Autumn 1980 39 Nick Bridge The Canton Trade Fair, 1977: Pages from a Diary 43 Leo Haks Finding China: Relationships and Myself 50 James Ng Images for Sages 56 Diana Bridge China, ''A Tired Old Country''? The Dangers of Group Thinking 67 Michael Powles Inside China as an Outsider 74 John McKinnon Maori Business Relationships with China 82 Mavis Mullin People A Haunted Taste 96 Jacob Edmond Finding Dr Li Lairong: Pioneer of New Zealand-China Science Co-operation 104 Tony Browne Madame Sun Yat-sen''s Apple Pie for Pudding 111 Mary Roberts-Schirato Vic Wilcox, the People''s Republic of China and the New Zealand Communist Movement 118 Kerry Taylor Learning from Dai Qing 125 Pauline Keating Poets in Exile: Yang Lian and Gu Cheng in Auckland 133 Hilary Chung Hong Kong Revisited 136 John Needham A New Kiwi Chinese Celebrates 50 Years of Relations 142 Bo Li Where Shi Le Used to Hunt 147 Michael Radich Lost in Shanghai 153 Alison Wong Place The Temples of Xi''an 160 Margaret T. South ''The Earl of Zheng Overcame Duan in Yan'': China''s Past in Our Futures 165 Duncan Campbell Stages of Enlightenment 173 Amanda Jack Song Dynasty Dragon Kiln Revival 179 Peter Holmes Return to Liangzhu 187 Wen Chin Powles Reflections on Being a Foreign Student in Shanghai in the 1980s 195 Rebecca Needham 1989: Beijing Under Martial Law 202 Brian Moloughney Winter (Season of Baby Mandarins, Apples): Spring Onion Oil Noodles 208 Nina Mingya Powles Urumchi and the World in 2004 212 Joe Lawson Chengdu: 12 May 2008 218 Andrew Wilford Occasion Memories of a Polisher in Beijing 224 Phillip Mann Whakawhanaungatanga 231 Meng Foon The Poll Tax Apology and Reconciliation 239 Esther Fung 1989 Matters 246 Brenda (Englefield) Sabatier Crossing the ''Chinese Bridge'' 253 Thomas Nicholls Where It All Started: The Class of ''06 and the First China Field Study Course in Beijing 260 Xiaoming Huang Poets on Yellow Mountain 267 Murray Edmond 10,000 Lights Across the City : Lantern Festivals and Their Role in New Zealand-China Relations 275 James To Making Friends: A China Journey Spanning 30 Years 283 Garth Fraser Revisiting China for the First Time 291 Jason Young Transformations Crows, Ducklings and Kiwis: New Zealand in Chinese Minds 298 Paul Clark Two Decades of Development Work in West China 304 Dave Bromwich Myths of Dumplings, Business and International Relations: Is it Time to Demystify? 311 Hongzhi Gao Understanding Grandmother''s Buddhism: Lessons for Respecting the Beliefs of Others in China 318 Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa Bridges and Rainbows: Teaching Chinese Students in New Zealand 326 Ellen Soullière Between Imaginaries: Interconnections of a Samoan New Zealander with China 335 Ashalyna Noa They Aren''t Going to Take My Organs, Mum 339 Adam Osborne-Smith Middle Kingdom, Middle Earth, My Adventure 347 Luke Qin Reflections of a NZUSA Delegation Visitor, 1971 354 Philip S. Morrison A Young China-watcher''s Take on a Changing China 361 Alex Smith About the Contributors 368 Acknowledgements 385 Index 387.