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Biography
Manying Ip CNZM FRSNZ, known as Bess Ip, (born 1945) is a social historian and emeritus professor in Auckland, New Zealand, who has published on the identity of Chinese New Zealanders.
Early life and education
Ip was born in 1945 in Guizhou. Her parents had moved to the Guizhou region to escape the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. She undertook university study in Hong Kong, and then completed a PhD in the History Department of the University of Auckland in 1983, titled From Qing reformer to twentieth-century publisher: the life and times of Zhang Yuanji 1867–1959.
Work
Ip's PhD thesis was published by Beijing Commercial Press in 1985, and she has continued to study and publish on the Chinese diaspora, especially in relation to the identity of Chinese New Zealanders and New Zealand relationships with Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. Ip was appointed to the Human Rights Commission in 2003. Ip is also a trustee of the Asia New Zealand Foundation Board.
Selected publications
- Manying Ip; Gillian Chaplin; China; Wen hua bu; Auckland City Art Gallery; NZI Corporation (1986). The Buried army of Qin Shihuang: an NZI Corporation/Auckland City Art Gallery Exhibition (in undetermined language). Auckland Art Gallery. ISBN 978-0-86463-147-3. OCLC 36998915. OL 45721277M. Wikidata Q104986712.
- Manying Ip (October 1997). "Unlikely Friends: Hu Shih and Chang Yuan-chi". Chinese Studies in History. 31 (1): 55–85. doi:10.2753/CSH0009-4633310155. ISSN 1558-0407. Wikidata Q58570594.
- Manying Ip; Australian National University; Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora (2001). Re-examining Chinese transnationalism in Australia-New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-74076-009-6. OCLC 57611771. OL 20119798M. Wikidata Q104986705.
- Manying Ip (2003). Unfolding history, evolving identity: the Chinese in New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-86940-289-1. OCLC 469532527. OL 3353518M. Wikidata Q104986706.
- Manying Ip; Nigel Murphy (2005), Aliens at my table: Asians as New Zealanders see them, Penguin Books, OCLC 568963745, Wikidata Q104986708
- Manying Ip (2008). Being Maori-Chinese: Mixed Identities. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-86940-399-7. OCLC 262787596. OL 12067427M. Wikidata Q104986707. Reprinted in 2013.
Awards and honours
Ip was awarded a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal in 1993.
In June 1996 Ip was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Chinese community.
Ip was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2009. She is also a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities.
Ip was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Chinese community and education in the New Years Honours for 2018.
