Introduction
This article is based on a paper presented at the conference China in the Pacific: The View from Oceania at the National University of Samoa, Apia, Samoa, February 2015 and was reproduced in the Proceedings of that Conference, edited by Michael Powles and published by the Victoria University Press. At the time of the conference the author was Attorney General of Samoa, he is now in private legal practice. Like people from other nations, the Chinese have been migrating to Samoa over the past 150 years. This article explores the nature of the challenges faced by the Chinese and by Samoans of Chinese ancestry in Samoa, and on the contribution of the Chinese community to the development of Samoa. It is a personal account by the author, based on his own family history and his research. The original footnotes have been converted to a note on sources at the end of the article.
