01Li Xiangliang
李向良
Remembers life in Huaqiao Xincun through gardens, football and encounters with neighbours.
广州 · GUANGZHOU / A NEIGHBOURHOOD REMEMBERED
A neighbourhood.
A thousand
remembered moments.
Mapping Huaqiao Xincun
A place of arrivals, belonging and everyday life. Follow streets, gardens and school grounds into the oral histories of Huaqiao Xincun.
01 — 06
Six places.
Many ways to remember.
A story reaches beyond one person.
A place holds more than one memory.
Selected oral histories are connected through people, places and themes. Follow one person’s experience, or pause in one place to encounter different memories.SELECTED ACCOUNTS · MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES · TRACEABLE SOURCES
01 / WAYS INTO MEMORY
Where will your journey begin?
02 / THE MEMORY MAP
Step into a place.
Encounter a memory.
Badminton in the school hall. Flowers in a garden. Familiar neighbours in the street. Let a place be your starting point.
Explore the mapA reading map, not a precise geography of private homes.HUAQIAO XINCUNA SCHEMATIC OF MEMORIES
01Huaqiao Primary School02The School Hall03Homes & Gardens04Youai Road05Aiguo Road06Hung Sin-nui’s Former HomeSCHEMATIC · NOT TO SCALE03 / PEOPLE & THEIR STORIES
Behind every memory, a person.
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05Ma Jun
马俊
Grandson of Hung Sin-nui and caretaker of her former residence; remembers his grandmother beyond the stage.
03Lai Yunyun
赖云云
Came to Guangzhou from Indonesia, making a new life through school, family and everyday food.
FROM THE ORAL HISTORIES / A MOMENT REMEMBERED
Listen to a memory
of growing up.
A pool, a hall, a playground.
Reunited in one person’s memory.
004Personal recollectionChildhood
Growing up at school
Huaqiao Primary School holds many of my childhood memories. I learned breaststroke in its pool, fell and scraped myself on the playground, and practised badminton with my father in the main hall. In summer, beetles flew around the grounds. My classmates and I caught them together, our laughter filling the campus.Narrator Li Minjie
Read the Chinese original English translation: draft
华侨小学承载了我许多的童年记忆。我在学校的游泳池里学习蛙泳，在操场上摔倒流血，还曾与父亲在大礼堂练习打羽毛球。夏天，操场上金龟子四处飞舞，我和同学们一起捉金龟子，欢声笑语在校园的每个角落回荡。English translation is a draft awaiting human review.
New Village Memories: Oral Histories of Guangzhou’s Huaqiao Xincun · Li Minjie · p. 45 (PDF page 57)
04 / READING WITH CARE
Listen closely.
Read with care.
Oral histories preserve remembered experiences. Who is speaking, who is remembered and how certain a place is matter as much as the story itself.
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