Elizabeth Chin-Seet interviewed by Diana Giese for the Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 27573
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Chin-Seet, Elizabeth Barbara, 1960-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1993
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 63 min.)
- Series:
- Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project.
- Summary:
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Elizabeth Chin-Seet, marketing manager and active member of the Darwin Chinese community, speaks of her family background; transit in Sydney at time of Cyclone Tracy; discrimination experienced whilst a teenager; move back to Darwin, following university; Darwin Chinese community; Chinese women; involvement with Chung Wah Society & other Chinese associations; Chinatown Forty Two Exhibition; effect of evacuation during WW2 on Chinese community; organisation of trip by Darwin Chinese to China, 1988 as guests of the Chinese Government; contact with relatives in China; impressions of Guangdong; inability to speak Chinese; proposed move to Perth, W.A.
- Biography/History:
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Born in Darwin in 1960, Chin Seet is related to many of the city's old Chinese families. As a younger member of the Chinese community, she has been active in the Chung Wah Society and in multilingual broadcasting.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at the State Reference Library, Darwin, N.T. on 9 December 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Corrected transcript (typescript, 41 leaves) available.
- Subject:
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- Chin Seet, Elizabeth, 1960- -- Interviews
- Chung Wah Society (Darwin, N.T.)
- Chinese Australians -- Interviews
- Chinese -- Australia -- Interviews
- Chinese -- Northern Territory -- Interviews
- Chinese -- Northern Territory -- Societies, etc
- Visitors, Foreign -- China -- Guangzhou
- Darwin (N.T.) -- Relations -- China -- Guangzhou
- Guangzhou (China) -- Relations -- Northern Territory -- Darwin
- Other authors/contributors:
- Giese, Diana, 1947-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 1993
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