Manying Ip

Manying Ip CNZM FRSNZ FNZAH
Ip in November 2020
Born	1945 (age 80–81) Guizhou, Republic of China Chinese name: 葉宋曼瑛
Occupation	Social historian
Title	Emeritus Professor
Academic background
Thesis	From Qing reformer to twentieth-century publisher : the life and times of Zhang Yuanji 1867–1959

Manying Ip CNZM FRSNZ, 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 Guizhou province. Her parents had moved to the Guizhou region to escape the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. 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 Chinese mainland. Ip was appointed to the Human Rights Commission in 2003. Ip is also a trustee of the Asia New Zealand Foundation Board.

Selected publications

• Reprinted in 2013.

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. 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.