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I Have Chosen Hong Kong
In 1949 Wong Jum-sum, then eight years old, followed his father from Guangzhou to Hong Kong under the looming cast of the civil war. They built a new life from scratch. In time they also found a new home. In company with several million people who travelled the same path, they gradually grew into a historically unique community of “Chinese who have chosen Hong Kong as home”. There is an interesting piece of artefact in the collection of James Wong Study, a newspaper called Da Hwa Evening Post, dated 1949 June 17, carefully wrapped in a clear plastic bag. No one knows where it came from, why it was in the collection. We only know it is probably the best starting point for the whole exhibition.
In 1949 Wong Jum-sum, then eight years old, followed his father from Guangzhou to Hong Kong under the looming cast of the civil war. They built a new life from scratch. In time they also found a new home. In company with several million people who travelled the same path, they gradually grew into a historically unique community of “Chinese who have chosen Hong Kong as home”. There is an interesting piece of artefact in the collection of James Wong Study, a newspaper called Da Hwa Evening Post, dated 1949 June 17, carefully wrapped in a clear plastic bag. No one knows where it came from, why it was in the collection. We only know it is probably the best starting point for the whole exhibition.
In 1949 Wong Jum-sum, then eight years old, followed his father from Guangzhou to Hong Kong under the looming cast of the civil war. They built a new life from scratch. In time they also found a new home. In company with several million people who travelled the same path, they gradually grew into a historically unique community of “Chinese who have chosen Hong Kong as home”.
There is an interesting piece of artefact in the collection of James Wong Study, a newspaper called Da Hwa Evening Post, dated 1949 June 17, carefully wrapped in a clear plastic bag. No one knows where it came from, why it was in the collection. We only know it is probably the best starting point for the whole exhibition.
