Kwong Shu Leung
& Soo Jee
Leung
Click on the links
below to hear audio segments from an April 2004 interview
by David Leung with his parents,
Kwong Shu Leung & Soo Jee Leung, who immigrated to San
Francisco from China in the late
1980's.
Kwong Shu Leung, with his father
& brother at Tianamen,
China in 1986, before leaving for
America
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Note: David's English translations follow brief
excerpts of his parents' responses.
Family Background
(1.6 MB) What was the basic history of my
father's family, his ancestors and family history in China, their
professions and how those things impacted my father?
Childhood
(1.7 MB)
Admiring Mao (1.8
MB)
Religion
(1.3 MB)
Food shortages in
China (354 KB)
China today (1.29
MB)
Life in communist
China (1.2 MB) What would have
persuaded my parents to have stayed in China instead of leaving in
the 1980s? (Basically, if the country gave them a choice to choose
their lives, fairness, and a choice to live in a world where the
country did not pit them against their family friends.)
Laws in communist China
(353 KB)
Leaving China
(945 KB)
Greater possibilities for the
family in the U.S. (324
KB)
Many more job choices in the U.S.
than in China (667 KB)
Technological advances in the
U.S. (596 KB) What were the
technological advances that have impacted my parents lives and even
saved their lives?