• Title
  Item 2: Spencer Wu oral history interview by Louise Whelan
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  21 March 2022
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9675912
• Physical Description
  2 audio files (3 hr., 7 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  In this interview Spencer Wu describes his childhood in Hong Kong before the advent of war in 1941, being smuggled out of Hong King to Macau and his family’s return to China. He goes on to speak about his tertiary education in England where he studied dentistry and specialised in IV (Intravenous) sedation practice before migrating to Australia to practice dentistry with an Australian dentist. Spencer then shares his first impressions of Australia and discusses the many changes he has witnessed in dental practice, implant technology and Chinatown, Sydney, including the range of dominant Chinese languages spoken. Finally, Spencer speaks about life in one of the first Chinese families to migrate to Chatswood and business ventures including opening the first photography shop and studio in Chinatown, Sydney.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded in Roseville, New South Wales on 21 March 2022
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Wu, Spencer, 1932-
  
• Subject
  Wu, Spencer, 1932---Interviews.
  Chinese Australians--New South Wales--Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20662720

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