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Chinese Australian Whispers

Chinese Australian Whispers

By: Dr Sophie Couchman
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 This series explores what family historians can learn from oral histories and how these oral histories, stories whispered down from the past with all their imperfections, can help us make sense of our Chinese family history and who we are as Australians.Sophie Couchman Social Sciences World
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  • Ep 6: Sophie and Nik on Chinese Australian Whispers

    Ep 6: Sophie and Nik on Chinese Australian Whispers
    Feb 11 2025
    In this episode you have an opportunity to meet Nik. Nikolaus Yee is my nephew and has helped edit and bring this podcast series to fruition. Nik's father was born in Myanmar to Chinese parents and he came to Australia in the early 1980s. In creating 'Chinese Australian Whispers' Nik and I listened to all the interviews and oral histories. We found we had a few things we wanted to say about them too!
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    41 mins
  • Ep 5: Ting and music

    Ep 5: Ting and music
    Feb 11 2025
    Wang Zheng-Ting composed and performed the music for this podcast. In this episode Sophie Couchman talks with him about his research as an ethnomusicologist and how being Chinese Australian has shaped his musical development.
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    25 mins
  • Ep 4: Peter and William on bananas

    Ep 4: Peter and William on bananas
    Feb 11 2025
    Bananas are, and were, big business but also dangerous. They were integral to the family fortunes of Peter and William. In this episode Sophie speaks with family historian Peter Liefman, whose grandfather was a large wholesale banana merchant with connections to lawyer William Ah Ket. We discuss an oral history recording with William Sang Fong who worked in the fruit and vegetable wholesaling business with his father.
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    26 mins
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