The relationship between New Zealand and China has improved hugely over its more than 140 years of existence, Tauranga Girls' College students are learning.
As ties between the two countries become more important, social studies teacher Murray Armstrong has included a module on the past and future relationship between them.
Students are learning how, from the mid-19th century onwards, Chinese immigrants came to New Zealand, most for the gold boom in Otago, and faced a lot of prejudice.
Anti-Chinese immigrant laws were introduced, including arrival taxes and limits on numbers.
Nowadays, New Zealand is reliant on China in many ways. It is the country's main source of imports and second largest export destination. Chinese tourists are now more numerous than Australians and, by the early 2020s, 30 per cent of Auckland's population is expected to be Chinese.