Manying Ip , known as Bess Ip( Chinese name: 葉宋曼瑛） (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

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. Her parents had moved to the Guizhou region to escape the

Japanese invasion of Hong Kong The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the ...

. 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

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Awards and honours

Ip was awarded a

New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal The New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 was established by Royal Warrant on 1 July 1993. It was created to commemorate Women's suffrage in New Zealand and to recognize those New Zealand and Commonwealth citizens who had made a significant ...

in 1993. In June 1996 Ip was made an

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit () is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have r ...

for services to the Chinese community. Ip was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society Te Apārangi The Royal Society Te Apārangi (in full, Royal Society of New Zealand) is a not-for-profit body in New Zealand providing funding and policy advice in the fields of sciences and the humanities. These fundings (i.e., Marsden grants and research fe ...

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 The New Zealand Order of Merit () is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have ...

for services to the Chinese community and education in the New Years Honours for 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ip, Manying Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand 20th-century New Zealand historians Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit Recipients of the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 1945 births People from Guizhou University of Auckland alumni Academic staff of the University of Auckland Living people 21st-century New Zealand historians Chinese emigrants to New Zealand