Biography of Wong Wai Ling

Dr Wong Wai Ling is Research Officer of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. She was awarded PhD in Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She has been in charge of various oral history projects based at the University since 2001, the major ones including Hong Kong Oral History Archives, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Oral History Repository and the digital oral history archives under the Hong Kong Memory Project. Currently she is working towards a community museum for oral histories of fishing communities in Aberdeen.

Her related recent publications in English are: 2014. "Making Productive Home: Chinese Immigrant Women Doing Family, Immigrant and Woman", Maria Tam and Wong Wai Ching (eds.), Gender and Family in East Asia, pp.119-140. London and New York: Routledge; "Oral History of an Old Urban Community in Cosmopolitan Hong Kong." Paper presented at The 17th International Oral History Association Conference, The Challenges of Oral History in the 21st Century: Diversity, Inequality and Identity Construction, International Oral History Association, 4-9 September, 2012; "Oral History on the Internet: Legal, Ethical and Methodological Issues Reconsidered." Paper presented at The XVI International Oral History Conference: Between Past and Future: Oral History, Memory and Meaning, International Oral History Association and Czech Oral History Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 8-11 July, 2010.

She also teaches university students and secondary school students to do oral history through experiential learning programme and actual practices.

Email: wongwlc@hku.hk