An immigrant woman

Australia, 1990

TV show
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Episode number 7 of Series “A Day in the Life of a Woman”.
Wong King Chan is a Chinese immigrant living and working in extremely hard conditions in Macau. Her factory work takes her away from her husband and two children for at least ten hours a day, then she returns to the tiny one room flat in a tenement building they share with three others. As we follow her daily routine we learn of her hopes to save enough money to buy a flat which will generate enough income to provide for her children’s education.

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Credits

co-producer

Gian Manara

Ian Lap Man

director

Ian Lap Man

production company

Asian Broadcasting Union

SBS-TV

TDM Macau

Duration

00:28:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1990

Appears in

A Day in the Life of a Woman

Group of items

A Day in the Life of a Woman

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302777

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Macao

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Women - Employment

Places → Macao

Television

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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