China Six - Text
The subject is a Chinese male. He was born on the 26th of December, 1985, and is currently enrolled in an undergraduate program in Wellington, New Zealand.
He was born in Wuhan, China, but after age 6 moved to Sydney, Australia. Running time 00:04:07.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Um…ok, um, I was born in China, um, in a city called Wuhan, which is, um, in the middle of China, sort of. It’s like, kind of like a…a…it’s like at the center between Hong Kong and Beijing, and from Shanghai to the west of China. So it’s like at that midpoint road. So all the railways, um, went through it. And, um, there was like a huge, um, river that cut through it to go west of China. Um, and I remember being a little…I was…I don’t remember much because, um, I left China when I was six. Um, and I remember saying to my grandma, because my dad was the first to leave. He left one year before me and my mom moved to Australia. And, um, I remember saying to my grandmother, “I’ll _______ and then I’ll come back”. Um, and the reason I will say that was because I’ll say I’ll remember my dad was always, um, when I was small like I…I was horrible at eating. Like, um, I think it was because, apparently, when I was smaller, when I first began eating solid food, my dad started showing off and he’d stuff me with heap, heaps of food. Like, little goose eggs and stuff. And apparently, that, after one ______ I either I got sick of food, or, I kept choking on my food. And because I kept choking I never wanted to eat my food. And, like, so he would always, like, smack me and make me eat my food.