Windows on a Chinese Past

The story of Otago's Chinese community from the first Chinese arrivals in Dunedin in 1865 right up to the present, including life on the Otago Goldfields, the move into towns and cities and the eventual assimilation of a generation of Chinese refugee children into a New Zealand way of life.

Windows on a Chinese Past is illustrated with a rich array of artefacts and with short biographies of Chinese indentities, such as Choie Sew Hoy, the merchant who pioneered gold dredging in Otago in the late 19th century.