Sean Burnett Dugdale-Martin
How much do you know about Wellington? Living memory is the concept of the accumulated memories of what happened within the longest current, ongoing lifespan. For example, the human living memory would span from right now, as you read this, back until the birth of the oldest living person today. An oral history is all that can be verbally recalled and remembered from person to person, and history as a whole is what is written and recorded on paper or device. The Wellington that we know today has had a few different coats of paint over the years, and with each wash over the seaside city we lose details of that which is painted over. The Chinese immigrant story is not unlike other immigrant stories you may have heard, but how familiar are you with Wellington’s historical relationship with Chinese immigrants?