Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The quiet achievers : from gardens to gold medals
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Tamaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum
Place
Date
2017?
Physical Description
12 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780473387280
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Auckland (N.Z.) - Biography; Auckland (N.Z.) - History]
Supported by the Asia new Zealand Foundation. Accompanies the exhibition Being Chinese in Aotearoa: A photographic journey, held at the Sainsbury Horrocks Gallery, Auckland War Memorial Museum, 10 February 2017-4 March 2018.
Subject Notes
Ant Sang grew up in New Zealand and Hong Kong, and absorbed a heady diet of comics, cartoons, anime, sci-fi, and kung-fu films. In the mid-1990s. Sang began writing, drawing, and self-publishing comics. He's now an award-winning graphic novelist whose work has been published worldwide.
Helene Wong was born in Taihape and grew up in Lower Hutt. She has been a film and television actor and director, a scriptwriter and a social policy adviser to former Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon. Wong is now a full-time writer and in 2016 published her memoir Being Chinese: A New Zealander's Story.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Pamphlet Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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