The redemption of Ian Bing: Chinese nationalist, conspiratorialist antisemite, genealogist

Abstract

Ian Bing has until now been best known as a pioneering Chinese genealogist and hotelier in New Zealand. His previously unresearched journal, China Calling (中國呼聲), the unofficial newsletter of the Chinese Nationalist Guomindang's (國民黨) New Life Movement (新生活運動, NLM) in New Zealand, spent its final days reprinting Social Credit theory and antisemitic hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Bing later disseminated literature that influenced New Zealand’s postwar antisemitic right. Social Credit is the key to explaining both Bing’s transformation, and the small but outsized and hitherto little documented role he played in developing New Zealand postwar antisemitism.