THE SOUND AGENTS Liverpool Heritage Organisation: LIVERPOOL CHINATOWN: AN ORAL HISTORY

Thursday, 1 August 2019

LIVERPOOL CHINATOWN: AN ORAL HISTORY

The Sound Agents are currently working on the transcriptions of 40 people who were interviewed for Liverpool Chinatown: An Oral History

Mr Lau as a young Blue Funnel sailor

The personal histories include Blue Funnel Sailors, Kwok Fong and Boarding Houses, Laundries, Chip Shops and Restaurants, The Cantonese Opera, The Chi Kung Tong history, Children who were child actors in the 1958 film The Inn of Sixth Happiness, Journeys from China to Liverpool, setting up a Chinese school The Wah Sing in Liverpool, The forced Deportation of Chinese sailors in 1946...

The transcriptions and photographs taken during the project of participants and from family albums will be published in a book which will be co-edited by Philip Lo Senior Lecturer LJMU.
More details to follow.

The Sound Agents promote public understanding and access to communities by recording the personal and everyday experience of Liverpool life.

The purpose of the organisation is to work inclusively with people from under-represented communities to provide opportunities to share stories using the Arts as a tool for communication.

Working outside the structure to bring together older people to pass their skills on to the younger generation by working creatively to share talents, experience and enthusiasm to bring people together to improve health and well-being and create opportunities for young people to get involved in Socially Engaged practice.