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Aiguo Road

爱国路

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Memories of settling after migration begin with this street. Individual home addresses are not shown.

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HUAQIAO XINCUNA SCHEMATIC OF MEMORIES
01Huaqiao Primary School02The School Hall03Homes & Gardens04Youai Road05Aiguo Road06Hung Sin-nui’s Former HomeSCHEMATIC · NOT TO SCALE

All nodes are schematic; distances and directions are not geographic.

A place remembered in different ways.

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These are excerpts from edited written oral histories. Time expressions follow the accounts; memories are not automatically verified historical facts.

007Personal recollection1958

Arriving on Aiguo Road

In 1958, my mother, another elder sister and my nephew, then only eight and a half, travelled back with us by ship. After roughly ten days we entered through the Luohu crossing in Shenzhen and reached Guangzhou, where we rented a home on Aiguo Road.
Narrator Lai Yunyun
⌖ Aiguo Road
Read the Chinese original English translation: draft
1958年，母亲、另一位姐姐和年仅八岁半的小外甥随我们一起坐船归国，历经大约十日，自深圳罗湖口岸入境广州，暂时在爱国路租赁房屋居住。

English translation is a draft awaiting human review.

New Village Memories: Oral Histories of Guangzhou’s Huaqiao Xincun · Lai Yunyun · p. 111 (PDF page 123)