Oral history interview with Pui Ching Chan 陳佩貞

00:00-01:10 Pui Ching 佩貞(PC) explains family naming traditions.

01:11-02:29 Parents and grandmother left China when the Communist Party took over. Pui Ching was born in Hong Kong. Visiting maternal hometown before she came to the U.K. in 1980.

02:03-03:30 Description of the district of Si Yub四邑, and her parents’ home town in Xinhui新會.

03:31-04:20 Pui Ching’s wedding ceremony in Hong Kong.

04:21-04:53 Parents moving to Hong Kong in the 1930s.

04:54-10:14 Description of the resettlement area 徒置區 where she lived in Hong Kong including schooling and being sponsored at school by people in Norway, the living environment and living in the resettlement areas

10:15-11:06 Studying English at evening class

11:07-15:49 Meeting and marrying husband before moving to her in-laws in Wales. Running a take away and moving to Manchester, keeping in touch with family in Hong Kong.

15:50-16:36 Return to Hong Kong in 1988 and recognition that Hong Kong no longer ‘suits’ her.

16:37-17:10 Expectations of her children, their awareness of Chinese culture and filial piety

17:11-20:41 Describes photograph of Great Grandmother and thoughts on arranged marriage

20:42-21:26 Compares her husband’s home town and the resettlement area

21:27-21:55 Further comments of her impressions of Hong Kong visit 8 years after moving to England

21:56-23:56 Disagreement with the Chinese proverb “people who leave their home town become low status people, objects which leave their hometown become expensive and high status 人離鄉賤一物離鄕貴” and other thoughts on living a good life

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.