Karl Armstrong interviewed by Barry York in the China Maytime Festival Tour 1971 oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 6195492
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Armstrong, Karl, 1948-2024, interviewee
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- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2013
- 3 sound files (ca. 243 min.)
- Series:
- China Maytime Festival Tour 1971 oral history project.
- Summary:
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Karl Armstrong talks about his parents and their background; the views and the values of his parents; Eureka Youth League; his involvement with Vietnam War protests and court cases; Arthur Calwell; his apprenticeship in printing and plate making; family life; current affairs and politics; his growing interest in China; his employment; his interests during the 1960s; his wife; his schooling and education; participating in his first demonstration; ASIO; Printing and Kindred Industries Union; Maytime Tour of China; his recollections and the highlights of the trip to China; the people and factors that shaped his life and his values; joining the Australia-China Society; meeting Zhou Enlai; his time in China; working at the Foreign Languages Publishing House; ‘struggle meetings’; his trip to and the time he spent in Albania; Radio Tirana; China’s political ambitions; the death of Zhou Enlai; his opposition to National Service; Pentridge Gaol; Whitlam’s and Nixon’s visit to China; Chinese-Albanian foreign relations; establishing the Australia-Albania Friendship Association; his memoir; the birth of his daughter in Albania; returning to Melbourne; his role as an Information Officer at CSIRO; his marriage and his children; health; 3CR Community Radio; Tiananmen Square Massacre; his political position; Human Rights; Falun Gong; Tibet; Beijing Olympics; civil liberties in China; his daughter’s belief and achievements; his mother’s political views.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 22-23 February 2013 in Melbourne, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (16 p.)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- York, Barry, 1951-, interviewer
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This belongs to the China Maytime Festival Tour 1971 oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 2013
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