LIM Chong Hsien 林忠宪
Chinese Dialect Groups,
Accession Number 000582
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 11
Total Reels
- Ang Siew Ghim
Interviewer
- 05:16:56
Total Running Time
- Mandarin
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 11
Metadata
- 10 Jul 1985
Recording Date
- 00:29:25
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Personal background. Father, Lim Nee Soon's background. How father became rubber and pineapple magnate. Father married at 23 to Ruan Bixia. Father's relationship with Sun Yat Sen and other revolutionaries. Father made frequent overseas business trips. Interviewee attended English school initially. Why he was placed in a Chinese school later.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 11
Metadata
- 10 Jul 1985
Recording Date
- 00:28:52
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Life as a student in Xin Zhou Ling Nan Branch School; stayed in school hostel. School curriculum. How he and class-mates spent week-ends. How he was separated from mother at 18 months old. Stayed in Johor rubber plantation with adopted father. Returned to Singapore at six, attended Chinese kindergarten. How Lim Nee Soon met his mother (later became his mistress). Mother re-married later.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 11
Metadata
- 10 Jul 1985
Recording Date
- 00:28:12
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Father preferred sons to daughters. Father's will. How father first met his mother in 1950s. Had bad impression of father initially; how he changed impression later. Remembered father as a quiet and stern man. Stayed with father's family in Cairnhill Circus after his death. Relationship with his brother, Lim Chong Pang.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 11
Metadata
- 2 Aug 1985
Recording Date
- 00:28:49
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
How half-brothers located him after father's death. What happened on first day he went to stay with them. Number of people staying in Cairnhill Circus house then. Description of the house. Relationship with half-brothers and half-sisters. Reasons for rift between him and Lim Chong Pang. Left to study in Chip Bee School in Amoy after completing primary education in Singapore. His journey from Singapore to Amoy.
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Reel/Disc 8 of 11
Metadata
- 22 Aug 1985
Recording Date
- 00:28:35
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
What happened during mass-screening. Worked at a Japanese factory. Nature of his work. His remuneration then. Quit after one year, went to stay and helped in adopted father's Johor pineapple plantation. Returned to Singapore later, worked in Japanese factory manufacturing fishing nets. Met his wife there. Standard of living improved then. His salary then. Reaction of one Japanese worker in factory when he knew of atomic bomb attack of Hiroshima.
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