LIN Jin Joo 林真如
Education in Singapore (Part 2: Chinese),
Accession Number 001997
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 24
Total Reels
- Yap Wee Cheng
Interviewer
- 11:24:13
Total Running Time
- Mandarin
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 24
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- 20 Jan 1998
Recording Date
- 00:30:08
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Personal background. Occupation of Pu Tian dialect group. Education was fully developed in hometown - Pu Tian. Memory of father as an open-minded man. Reason for transfer to another primary school in China. Father’s business failed and its impact. His education in China.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 24
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- 20 Jan 1998
Recording Date
- 00:29:50
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Continuation on interviewee’s education in China. Impressions of the teachers. Interviewee was poor in Mathematics. Description of his new house which had no windows. Father could not get over his business failure. Opened a vegetarian restaurant.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 24
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- 20 Jan 1998
Recording Date
- 00:28:50
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Reason for father’s business failure and its impact. Stayed with uncle for a while. Contracted an illness which affected his school results. Lost interest in studies and received warning from his sister. His problems with Mathematics. Recollection of a brilliant classmate. Had a famous Physics teacher. Worked as a school clerk after graduation from high school.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 24
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- 23 Jan 1998
Recording Date
- 00:29:29
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Interviewee worked as a school clerk for six months before losing the job. Remained unemployed for half a year and self-studied at home. Overseas graduates who had taught him. His poor memory. Sister Lin Fang Lan supported his university studies. Life in university. Two schools of thought of lecturers.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 24
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- 3 Feb 1998
Recording Date
- 00:30:10
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Disturbed by gangsters. Came to Singapore in 1935 and taught in Tao Nan School. Life in Tao Nan School. Relationship with colleagues. Administration was controlled by the principal. Recollection of Pan Shou as Tao Nan School’s principal. Wrote actively for the newspaper. Dismissed by Tao Nan School due to his involvement in anti-Japanese activities. The education groups in Hokkien Huay Kuan and their involvement in the school. Taught in Malaysia after leaving Tao Nan School.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 24
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- 3 Feb 1998
Recording Date
- 00:29:57
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Difficult time as a teacher in Malaysia. Suffered from insomnia every night. He was dismissed again due to a misunderstanding that he was a leftist. His views on Lim Bo Seng. Set up a rubber processing factory after leaving the school. Led an easy life in Ipoh. Rubber business failed due to his inexperience. Described anti-Japanese talks in Singapore in the 1930s. Tao Nan School’s choir group attracted students from Nanyang Girls’ High School.
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Reel/Disc 9 of 24
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- 12 Feb 1998
Recording Date
- 00:28:17
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Description of anti-Japanese talks that were held secretly. Japanese attacked and interviewee fled to Singapore from Malaysia. Description of Sook Ching in South Bridge Road. Conflicts among teachers in Tao Nan School. A group of teachers was dismissed from Tao Nan School, including interviewee, during the absence of Tan Kah Kee. His experience in editing magazines. Intervention and power of the Hokkien Huay Kuan education group in Tao Nan School.
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Reel/Disc 10 of 24
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- 20 Feb 1998
Recording Date
- 00:28:20
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Teachers’ hostel in Tao Nan School. Life in the hostel. Entertainment in Great World Amusement Park in the 1930s. Anti-Japanese talks. Description of the surroundings of the hostels. Teachers wore in white. Remuneration was good in Tao Nan School. Background of the students in Tao Nan School. Girls were enrolled after the war. No interaction with people from United Chinese Library
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