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Remembering Rewi Alley
Rewi Alley with peasants in Gansu province, November 1982
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ecember 2, 2017 marked the 120th anniversary of the birth of Rewi Alley at Springfield. To celebrate the occasion, under the auspices of the Rewi Alley 120th Anniversary Commemoration Committee Canterbury, 10 Canterbury organisations, along with Rewi’s family, came together to highlight Rewi’s legacy. Delegations totalling about 80 people from China, including 17 from Rewi’s Chinese family, as well as about 100 from around New Zealand, came to Christchurch to take part in commemoration activities. Through these activities it was hoped to present to a new generation the story of this remarkable New Zealander, who had a huge love and respect for the Chinese people. Rewi Alley went to China in 1927, where he lived until his death in 1987. His first job in Shanghai involved being a fireman and factory inspector. This opened his eyes to the appalling living and working conditions of the ordinary people. Being the quintessential Kiwi bloke he was, he rolled his sleeves up and went to work. Over the next 60 years, through civil unrest and Japanese invasion, he toiled tirelessly, helping during famine and flood, setting up industrial co-operatives, establishing schools and
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giving the rest of his life to improving the conditions of its internet that Rewi was one of the 10 top foreigner friends people. He is one of the 10 most revered foreigners in China. who helped China in the previous 60 years. Not all Chinese Rewi’s impact on the relationship between China and New know of him but he is revered for different reasons in different Zealand still remains huge, chair of the Rewi Alley 120th parts of China, Mr Livingstone explains. There are over 30 Anniversary Commemoration Committee Canterbury Eric memorials, parks, museums and streets named after him, with Livingstone says. a new memorial in Shanghai unveiled two years ago, a huge “Every major leader or delegation from China visiting memorial including the current President’s father unveiled New Zealand speaks of the debt China owes to him and is in Shandan, Gansu province last year and a new memorial a significant part of the reason many Chinese official groups unveiled in Honghu City, Hubei Province in November this come here even today. year. “His influence makes us ‘old friends’, which is very In this last city, the size of Christchurch, while acting for important in Chinese eyes and is likened to meeting extended the League of Nations Rewi saved some 300,000 people from family you have never met before. There is an important bond and relationship that would not exist if they were visiting a starvation by shipping huge barges of American aid wheat there through blockading armies during a time of extreme strange country. famine. “When I was trading with China I learnt that the Australian Foreign Minister said in his annual report to his parliament, “They will not forget him,” Mr Livingstone says, “and we if only we had a Rewi Alley like New Zealand has. And I feel have seen the mayor of that city here this year and we firmed that is generally true today.” up a sister city relationship with Hurunui District Council on In 2009 over 16 million people in China voted on the December 2.”
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