LIM Steven Han Cheng 林汉清
Chinatown,
Accession Number 002213
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 9
Total Reels
- Lee Ming Li (1-4), Yeo Loo Feng (5-9)
Interviewer
- 04:08:41
Total Running Time
- Mandarin
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 9
Metadata
- 27 Oct 1999
Recording Date
- 00:30:27
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Personal background. Parents' background. Mother's stall at Boon Tat Street. Two types of license for stall - daytime and nighttime. Selling yam porridge, yam mee hoon and yam rice. Description of stall. Profile of neighbours in Telok Ayer Street. Description of two and half storey housing.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 9
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- 27 Oct 1999
Recording Date
- 00:29:28
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Toilet facilities available in public. Rental fees of room. Food stolen by landlord. Used candles to study when landlord switched off lights at night. Arrangement in the room. Collection of night soil. Relationships with neighbours. Secret societies.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 9
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- 27 Oct 1999
Recording Date
- 00:29:28
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Childhood games. Making of own kites. Playing with ants. Ways of forfeiting. Using calendar (by day) as "fake money". Studied in Ai Tong Primary. Description of the school compound. Facilities in school. Shared school compound with Chongfu Primary.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 9
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- 15 May 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:40
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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*Private schools organised by clan associations. All students from Yangzheng Primary had their hair shaved. Relationships between the teachers and students in the past. Dressing of teachers. Informant's memories of his teacher. Old Ai Tong school compound. Went over to River Valley High. Took up night classes at polytechnic after army. Informant's career advancement. Air-well in shop houses. Informant's landlord set up gambling den in the house. Business hour. Age group of gamblers. Description of opium dens.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 9
Metadata
- 15 May 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:28
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Further description on opium dens. Illegal to operate opium dens. Telok Ayer Street is dominated by Hokkien. Provision shops in the past. How they run the business. Popular brands of soft drinks. Trades along Telok Ayer Street. Indians selling daily products along the five foot way. Roadside barber stall. Description of the hair cutting instrument. Ear-digging service provided. Its charges. Itinerant food stalls.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 9
Metadata
- 15 May 2000
Recording Date
- 00:31:00
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Packaging for takeaway food. Forms of itinerant hawkers. Permanent hawkers at Telok Ayer Street. Roadside comic stalls. Rental charges of comic. Description of comic stall. Thian Hock Keng Temple. Idols worshipped in the temple. Different religious building located along Telok Ayer Street. Students will fight inside temple. Story-telling stall outside Thian Hock Keng Temple. Itinerant medicine men. Processions conducted by mediums.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 9
Metadata
- 15 May 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:45
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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*Informant's memory of his father. Main job duties of coolies. Where coolies gathered for jobs. Coolies also collect protection money. Benefits of joining the coolie's gang. Description of the coolie quarter. Account of gang fights. Weapons used. Negotiation at coffee shops. Reasons for setting up their food stall at Boon Tat Street. Pricing of food. Competition faced. Other businesses at Boon Tat Street. Wound up business when mother passed away. Selling of exotic animals in Chinatown.
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Reel/Disc 8 of 9
Metadata
- 15 May 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:56
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Exotic animals were slaughtered alive. The wholesalers business at Telok Ayer Street. Old People's Park market. Black market's tickets were sold outside the theatre. Bus terminal for Hock Lee bus. Chinese Private buses. STC trolley buses. Living standard and environment of Chinatown. Where the Chinatown residents remit their money. Used to play at the playground opposite the Indian temple. Facilities of Kreta Ayer Community Centre. Pugilistic troupe at Neil Road. Relationship between Chinatown residents. Characteristic of Chinatown.
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Reel/Disc 9 of 9
Metadata
- 15 May 2000
Recording Date
- 00:05:29
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Informant's suggestion on the future development of Chinatown. Main clientele of the wholesaler trade at Telok Ayer Street.
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