Phoebe H. Li 李海蓉
Phoebe received her PhD from the University of Auckland and was a research fellow at Tsinghua University (清华大学) in Beijing. She is currently an independent historian based in Auckland. Her research interests include the late Qing politics, Chinese Diaspora in Australasia, and mass media.
She was the principal curator of the photographic exhibition “Recollections of A Distant Shore: a Photographic Introduction to the history of the Chinese in New Zealand "《域外拾珍：新西兰华侨华人历史影像展 (1842-2016) 》 held at the Overseas Chinese Museum of China in Beijing, and later under the title “Being Chinese in Aotearoa” at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Waitangi Treaty Ground Museum and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery between 2016 and 2020. Her previous publications include A Virtual Chinatown: The Diasporic Mediasphere of Chinese Migrants in New Zealand (Brill, 2013), Recollections of a Distant Shore: New Zealand Chinese in Historical Images (co-authored with John B. Turner, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2017), Golden Enterprise: New Zealand Chinese Merchants 1860s-1970s (Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust, 2024), as well as academic journal articles and book chapters in both Chinese and English.
She was the principal curator of the photographic exhibition “Recollections of A Distant Shore: a Photographic Introduction to the history of the Chinese in New Zealand "《域外拾珍：新西兰华侨华人历史影像展 (1842-2016) 》 held at the Overseas Chinese Museum of China in Beijing, and later under the title “Being Chinese in Aotearoa” at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Waitangi Treaty Ground Museum and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery between 2016 and 2020. Her previous publications include A Virtual Chinatown: The Diasporic Mediasphere of Chinese Migrants in New Zealand (Brill, 2013), Recollections of a Distant Shore: New Zealand Chinese in Historical Images (co-authored with John B. Turner, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2017), Golden Enterprise: New Zealand Chinese Merchants 1860s-1970s (Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust, 2024), as well as academic journal articles and book chapters in both Chinese and English.
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