Tze Ming Mok (莫志明) is a New Zealand Chinese essayist, poet, social scientist, former human rights worker, commentator and occasional activist on racism, colonialism and rights issues affecting Asian communities. Their now foundational Landfall essay 'Race You There' (2004), urged Aotearoa Asians to live by the terms of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and their recent work continues to explore the past, present and future of Asian political positionality. Tze Ming was born in Mt Roskill, and is Baoshan Yunnanese by way of Burma and Singapore, and Szewui Cantonese via Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.