Oral history interview with Edwin Jung 鍾堅

00:00-06:29 Naming, family structure and geographical location in world, living in Guangdong Xinhui, Macau and Hong Kong

06:30-11:29 Brought documents for migration from those who had the right to migrate, required name change. Family moving to UK under name of Lee and then legally changing it back to Jung after father’s death

11:30-19:29 Living in Hong Kong 1959-1973, school, working part time jobs in factory, a boutique and the docks

19:30-28:29 Moving to the UK in 1973, working in a restaurant in Chinatown, Manchester. Changing menus, shops and restaurants in the area, opening of Chinses supermarkets Woo Sang and Wing Yip

28:30-35:59 Working in Chinese restaurants, eating habits/busy periods in restaurants, casinos and gambling, difficulty of getting Chinese ingredients

36:00-38:59 Observations on UK, weather, change in shops from small local shops to supermarkets

39:00-41:29 No friends on arriving in UK, meeting and marrying wife in China

41:30-43:29 Working in Chinatown, Manchester in restaurant kitchen, Macclesfield restaurant waiting tables, back to fathers restaurant. Wife joining him from Hong Kong with daughter and birth of son in UK

43:30-54:39 Opening own takeaway, fish and chip shop with some Chinese dishes, in Stalybridge. Explanation of running a takeaway shop in the 1970s.

54:40-57:59 Children to Chinese school on a Sunday at the North West Language Centre. Establishment of the Chinese Education Cultural Community Centre.

58:00-01:03:19 No regrets about move to the UK. Sale of takeaway in 2003. In retirement learning computers, to ride a bike and Mandarin and involvement with Sheung Lok radio show

01:03:20-01:07:46 Religion, taught at Church of England school in Hong Kong, mother Buddhist

This is an edited index. For the full index and summary of the interview see the bound volume in the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Library.