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Bickleen Wang was a Chinese New Zealander academic and author. She arrived to New Zealand as an eight year old in 1939 with her mother as refugees a result of the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong reuniting with her father who had been working in New Zealand prior on a farm. Bickleen was a bright and hard working student becoming the first Chinese women to earn a post-graduate degree in New Zealand.

Remembering Bickleen Wang Purewa Article

Copy of “The Chinese in New Zealand” by Bickleen Wang

Bickleen Wang

Died 1998

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