Manying Ip

Manying Ip , (; 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.

Early life and education Ip was born in 1945 in Guizhou to parents from Hong Kong who have moved inland to escape the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong.

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 Chinese mainland. Ip was appointed to the Human Rights Commission in 2003.

Awards and honours 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.

Selected publications

Reprinted in 2013.