(8 Sep 2024)
HONG KONG SQUATTER HOUSES
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Hong Kong – 25 August 2024
1. Various of Cha Kwo Ling Village, one of the last remaining squatter villages, in Hong Kong
2. Various of Teoh Bee Hua, 72, shopkeeper at Cha Kwo Ling village, working at her grocery shop
3. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Teoh Bee-hua, shopkeeper at Cha Kwo Ling village:
“Those were happy days; neighbours would always greet one another and chit-chat all the time. We frequently held barbeque parties and hotpot gatherings”
4. Various of Lo Yuet-ping, 72, old villager at Chat Kwo Ling village, showing us and cleaning his Chinese unicorn Qilin
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Hong Kong – 15 August 2024
5. UPSOUND (Cantonese) of Lo Yuet-ping: “When I was a kid, I did lion dance.”
6. Mid of Lo holding photo of his childhood in Cha Kwo Ling with the lion dance team
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Hong Kong – 25 August 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Lo Yuet-ping, old villager at Chat Kwo Ling village:
“I was born here. My parents immigrated from China and settled in this village, where I was their fifth child, with two younger brothers.”
8. Various of Lo Yuet-ping at village
9. UPSOUND (Cantonese) Lo Yuet-ping: “This is a mountainous area, where newcomers from China have established their residence. They constructed wooden houses along the hillside. So you can see the houses here are very unorganised.”
10. Wide of Cha Kwo Ling village
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Hong Kong – 20 August 2024
11. Various of Charles Fung, researcher of Hong Kong squatter house, author of “Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing”, looking into his research on computer
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ARCHIVE: Hong Kong – 1959
12. STILL of squatter settlement in Hong Kong
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ARCHIVE: Hong Kong – 16 MAY 1956
13. STILL of squatter settlement in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong – 20 August 2024
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Fung, researcher and co-writer of the book, "Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing":
“The function of the (British) squatter control team was to demolish whenever they found a new structure being built by squatters, and they had to demolish the structure before squatter moving in so that there would be no resettlement commitment. So it gradually developed into a very interesting interaction between the squatter and the government. They wanted squatter houses, and they wanted to live in cheap places, so they built, and they found one of the ways to circumvent the surveillance of the squatter control team is to build along the hillside because these are the spots that were difficult to spot.”
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Hong Kong – 25 August 2024
15. Wide of Lo Yuet-ping walking in Cha Kwo Ling village
16. View of Hong Kong Victoria harbour from Cha Kwo Ling village
17. Mid of squatter houses
18. Wide of squatter houses with Hong Kong cityscape background
19. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Lo Yuet-ping, old villager at Chat Kwo Ling village:
“Our location was oriented facing the harbour and nestled against the hillside. Squatter settlements were built along the area. Initially, houses were constructed using wood, but as later on, the residents advanced in their building techniques, using rocks from the nearby quarry for construction.”
20. Various of houses built with stone at Cha Kwo Ling village
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Hong Kong – 20 August 2024
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Fung, researcher and co-writer of the book "Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing"
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ARCHIVE: Hong Kong – 1 Sept 1960
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