A visualisation of oral histories of shop-owners in Hong Kong: stories feature a 104-year old shop selling sauces, a pre-war shoe factory, tea shop, mechanic, and how a ‘flower-board’ sign-maker learned calligraphy from his late father… all in Sham Shui Po, a district earmarked for extensive demolition by a government urban renewal project. Sham Shui Po communicates a living culture of a creative commercial community, and shows why and how the people there are trying to preserve their ways of life before the area is razed.
An enaging storyteller and facilitator, Maggie CHAU Yee-mei had lived in Shum Shui Po since 1980. She was one of the key figures who spoke for Shum Shui Po community during the district demolition period. Chau graduated from the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytecnic University, and currently teaches in a primary school.
