Leung Pui Ching

Biography

Leung Pui Ching was born in Nanhai in 1930. After the Second World War, she came to Hong Kong and learned to use the iron and wood weaving loom. She had worked in the weaving factories in Guangdong and Shanghai. After Leung Pui Ching moved out of the family, she worked in the day and went to school in the evening. She completed Primary 3 in an evening school run by the YWCA. In her twenties, she quit work and studied primary school full-time in the Mong Kok Workers’ Children School. She got married after completing Primary 6. As her husband was a heavy gambler, she worked as a night shift worker in a weaving factory to provide for the family. This gave her poor health. Later, she changed to work as a cleaning worker and then served dim sum in a Chinese restaurant where she worked until retired in 2000. Leung Pui Ching has worked hard all her life to improve her living condition. She had lived in a partitioned room and resettlement block. In the 1980s, she moved into the Home Ownership Scheme flat where she lives until now.