Tze Ming Mok born 1978) is a fiction writer and sociopolitical commentator, and has been a prominent New Zealand Asian community advocate. She was born in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, New Zealand, received her degrees at the University of Auckland

University of Auckland

The University of Auckland is a university located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest university in the country and the highest ranked in the 2011 QS World University Rankings, having been ranked worldwide...

, and works in human rights and development.

Mok's most prominent period of advocacy for New Zealand Asian, migrant, and New Zealand Chinese communities was the period 2005-2007, during which time her ethnopolitical blog Yellow Peril

Yellow Peril

Yellow Peril was a colour metaphor for race that originated in the late nineteenth century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States, and later associated with the Japanese during the mid 20th century, due to Japanese military expansion.The term...

 was featured on the popular New Zealand group weblog Public Address

Public address

A public address system is an electronic amplification system with a mixer, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to reinforce a sound source, e.g., a person giving a speech, a DJ playing prerecorded music, and distributing the sound throughout a venue or building.Simple PA systems are often used in...

, and she wrote an opinion column on race relations and Asia-Pacific issues in New Zealand's national Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Star-Times.

In 2004, she led an anti-racist march to Parliament

Parliament of New Zealand

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, Wellington

Wellington

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, in response to hate crimes. In 2007 she and other Asian community leaders organised a successful New Zealand Press Council

New Zealand Press Council

The New Zealand Press Council is a Non Governmental Organisation which exists to uphold standards in the New Zealand print media and promote freedom of speech in New Zealand. Founded in 1975, it is enabled to hear complaints against newspapers and other publications, particularly regarding...

 challenge of a magazine article that had been published in the national monthly magazine of note, North & South (magazine). The article, 'Asian Angst' by former Member of Parliament Deborah Coddington

Deborah Coddington

Deborah Coddington is a New Zealand journalist and former ACT New Zealand politician.- Pre-political career :Coddington, born in Waipukurau, worked from 1973 to 1984 as a magazine journalist, but in 1985 moved to Russell, a town in the Bay of Islands, where she owned and operated a café and...

, was found to be inaccurate and racially discriminatory.

Publication

Her poems, stories, reviews, opinions, and journalism have appeared in a range of publications including:

• The Kyoto Journal
• Landfall
  Landfall (journal)
  Landfall is New Zealand's oldest extant literary journal. First published in 1947 by Caxton Press, under the editorship of Charles Brasch, it features new fiction and poetry, biographical and critical essays, cultural commentary, and reviews of books, art, film, drama and dance.Additionally, the...
  
    (including guest editorship of Autumn 2006 issue)
• Sunday Star-Times (weekly column 2006)
• Sport
• Poetry NZ
• Meanjin
  Meanjin
  Meanjin is an Australian literary journal. The name - pronounced Mee-AN-jin - is derived from an Aboriginal word for the land where the city Brisbane is located.It was founded in December 1940, in Brisbane, by Clem Christesen...
  
  
• JAAM
• The Listener
  New Zealand Listener
  The New Zealand Listener is a New Zealand magazine. First published in 1939 and edited by Oliver Duff and the Monte Holcroft it originally had a monopoly on the publication of of upcoming television and radio programmes. In the 1980s it lost its monopoly on the publication of upcoming television...
  
  

External links

• Tze Ming Mok's website
• Tze Ming Mok's blog Yellow Peril on publicaddress.net
• New Zealand Press Council ruling on 'Asian Angst' by Deborah Coddington
  Deborah Coddington
  Deborah Coddington is a New Zealand journalist and former ACT New Zealand politician.- Pre-political career :Coddington, born in Waipukurau, worked from 1973 to 1984 as a magazine journalist, but in 1985 moved to Russell, a town in the Bay of Islands, where she owned and operated a café and...
  
   in North & South (magazine)
• Bookcouncil New Zealand Book Council