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Paul Wah: A-fourth generation Kiwi who battled racism Nicholas Boyack November 5, 2022 Paul Wah: educationalist; b March 9, 1932; d October 24, 2022. The title of Paul Wah’s book, Wooden Man, Stone Heart, celebrates him as a man of strong determination and willpower, who could not be tempted. As a fourth-generation Chinese New Zealander, Wah battled racism and intolerance as he sought to create an identity for himself. Wah, who died earlier this month aged 90, is remembered as one of the first Chinese secondary school principals and as a “good Kiwi bloke” who saved Taitā College. He also had the claim to fame of being arrested in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square shortly after the infamous massacre in 1989, when he was teaching at the Shanghai International Studies University​. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130308351/paul-wah-afourth-generation-kiwi-who-battled-racism