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The Quiet Achievers | By Ant Sang, Helene Wong

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Take a tour around Auckland with Adrian and his por por (grandmother) as they meet the people and visit the places behind the city's Chinese stories, in Ant Sang and Helene Wong's The Quiet Achievers: from Gardens to Gold Medals. This book was created to accompany Auckland Museum's previous exhibition, Being Chinese in Aotearoa: A photographic journey.

Take a tour round Auckland with Adrian and his por por (grandmother) as they meet the people and visit the places behind the city's Chinese stories. The Quiet Achievers is a collaboration between graphic artist Ant Sang and writer Helene Wong, created for the exhibition Being Chinese in Aotearoa: A photographic journey, at Auckland Museum.

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.   
  • ISBN: 9780473387280
  • Page: 6
  • Format: Paperback

Page: 6
Format: Paperback

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