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Manying Ip CNZM FRSNZ, (Chinese: 葉宋曼瑛; born 1945), also known as Bess Ip, is a social historian and emeritus professor in Auckland, New Zealand, who has published on the identity of Chinese New Zealanders.
Ip was born in 1945 in Guizhou to parents from Hong Kong who have moved inland to escape the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. The family returned to Hong Kong during Ip's childhood, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in honors in History from the University of Hong Kong.
Ip moved to New Zealand in 1974 and attended the University of Auckland, earning a Master of Arts in Chinese History. At the University of Auckland's History Department, she earned a PhD in 1983, with her thesis titled From Qing reformer to twentieth-century publisher: the life and times of Zhang Yuanji 1867–1959.
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 Chinese mainland. Ip was appointed to the Human Rights Commission in 2003. Ip is also a trustee of the Asia New Zealand Foundation Board.
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.
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Manying Ip
Manying Ip CNZM FRSNZ, (Chinese: 葉宋曼瑛; born 1945), also known as Bess Ip, is a social historian and emeritus professor in Auckland, New Zealand, who has published on the identity of Chinese New Zealanders.
Ip was born in 1945 in Guizhou to parents from Hong Kong who have moved inland to escape the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. The family returned to Hong Kong during Ip's childhood, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in honors in History from the University of Hong Kong.
Ip moved to New Zealand in 1974 and attended the University of Auckland, earning a Master of Arts in Chinese History. At the University of Auckland's History Department, she earned a PhD in 1983, with her thesis titled From Qing reformer to twentieth-century publisher: the life and times of Zhang Yuanji 1867–1959.
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 Chinese mainland. Ip was appointed to the Human Rights Commission in 2003. Ip is also a trustee of the Asia New Zealand Foundation Board.
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.
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