Frank Stuckey interviewed by Paul Macgregor for the Australia-China oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1982193
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Stuckey, Frank, 1906-2011, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1994
- 8 sound tape reels (ca. 253 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Australia-China oral history project.
- Summary:
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Stuckey, former resident of China, speaks of his parents as Australian medical missionaries living in Peking and Tianjin between 1905-1939, how he was born and raised in Peking until 1913 when he was sent to Melbourne for the duration of World War I returning to China where he went to college at the China Inland Mission school at Chefoo in Shandong for the period 1917-1918, how he returned to Melbourne's Scotch College in the 1920s, he returned to Tianjin in 1938 in order to teach at the local Grammar School where he met his wife to be, Marjorie Pennell, how the two of them were to spend the latter part of the War interned by the Japanese in Shanghai, after spending the late 1940s in Melbourne, they returned to Hong Kong in 1950 where Frank was a manager of his uncle-in-law's watch importing business, how he and Australian Hong Kong Trade Commissioner Harry Menzies established the Hong Kong Australian Association, their return to Melbourne in the late 1950s, his father, Dr. Edward Stuckey as a medical missionary at the Peking Union Medical College and the Tianjin MacKenzie Memorial Hospital, the missionary and expatriate communities in Peking and Tianjin, the summer holidays spent at Beidaiho on the coast near Peking, his sister Nancy and her husband Ralph Lapwood and the family they raised in China in the 1940s.
- Notes:
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- Project conducted in association with the Australia-China Council and with the Museum of Chinese Australian History.
- Recorded in Kew, Vic. on April 18 and July 1, 1994.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-206163276
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available.
- Subject:
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- Stuckey, Frank, 1906-2011 -- Interviews
- Stuckey, Edward
- Australians -- China -- Biography
- Chinese -- Conduct of life
- Missionaries, Medical -- China
- Tianjin (China) -- Social life and customs
- China -- Politics and government -- 1937-1949
- China -- Social life and customs -- 1937-1949
- Hong Kong (China) -- Foreign economic relations -- Australia
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