
About the event
You're warmly welcomed to join us for a celebratory evening to launch Interesting Times: Some New Zealanders in Republican China by Chris Elder, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.
All welcome!
About the book:
Chris Elder served twice in the New Zealand Embassy in Beijing, first in the 1970s when it was still Peking, and most recently as ambassador in 1993–97. He is the editor of New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less Than Complete Success, and Forty Years On: New Zealand–China Relations Then, Now and in the Years to Come, and two literary anthologies: Old Peking: City of the Ruler of the World and China’s Treaty Ports: Half Love and Half Hate.
Wednesday June 19th
6pm at Rutherford House
Launch of Interesting Times by Chris Elder. All welcome!
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