In 1939, the New Zealand government granted approval for 256 wives and a similar number of children from China to take temporary refuge here.
The women, who were fleeing war, had left their villages in Guangdong and then sought to be reunited with their husbands here.
This week, a new web series launches - Farewell Guangdong - which tells the deeply moving and sometimes unsettling stories of seven of the women who made New Zealand home.
Lynda Chanwai-Earle is the director of Farewell Guangdong and joins Susana from the RNZ Wellington studio.
Farewell Guangdong cover image (internal) Photo: Tawera Productions / RNZ
