PHAN Wait Hong 潘月红 Vanishing Trades, Accession Number 000368


  • Oral History Centre
    Source
  • 17
    Total Reels
  • Pitt Kuan Wah (R1-3), Tan Beng Luan (R3-15); Lim Lai Hwa (CD 16-17)
    Interviewer
  • 09:28:10
    Total Running Time
  • Mandarin
    Language


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Metadata

  • 19 Jan 1984
    Recording Date
  • 00:30:41
    Running Time
  • MP3
    Format
  • Open Access
    Conditions Governing Access

Synopsis

Family background.  Wait Hong was not real name.  Childhood home.  Pampered as youngest child in family.  Bad experience as apprentice to neighbour, a Chinese opera artiste in China.  At age of 10, brought to Hankou. Ill-treated by master; made to perform menial household chores.  Returned to family after two years.  Mother employed another opera teacher for her.

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