ZHAN Zhong Ying 詹忠英
Japanese Occupation of Singapore,
Accession Number 003614
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 1
Total Reels
- Lye Soo Choon 赖素春
Interviewer
- 00:45:27
Total Running Time
- Mandarin
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 1
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- 12 Jun 2011
Recording Date
- 00:45:27
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
00:26:11-01:11:36
Born 1944 in Rangoon, Burmese. Father was 2nd batch of volunteer drivers and mechanics (南侨机工) that went back to China to fight for Sino-Japanese war. How her father met her mother and how they got married. Father was mechanics at that time. Father brought whole family back to Singapore after the war. Recall father child bride went to Singapore in 1950. Her mother was angry, left her brother there and brought her back to China. Returned to China at age of six. Had to fake as the daughter of her maternal uncle to be admitted to school. Contacted her father in 1962. Reasons for her to contact her father. Life was hard in China, father sent money to her. Missed the opportunity to meet her father in Shanghai in 1966. Lost contact during China Cultural Revolution. How she managed to contact her father in 1980. Met her father in Hainan Island in 1987 after they had been departed for more than forty years. Had overseas relationship resulted as barrier to her marriage. How her mother arranged marriage for her. Sufferings during China Cultural Revolution. Came to Singapore to visit her father in 1990, great changes in Singapore compared to her childhood memories. Lost contact with Singapore after her father passed away.
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