Yung An Wan

Biography

Yung An Wan was born in Hong Kong in 1932. Her family origin was Nan Ping Village, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Yung An Wan’s father was a broker in Hong Kong. He died when Yung An Wan was three years old. Her mother took her back to their native place where An Wan started to go to school. Before the Second World War, they returned to Hong Kong. Yung An Wan studied on and off in different private schools including the Chun Wah School and some free schools. During the Japanese Occupation, she received primary education and had the first year of junior secondary education in St. Paul’s Convent School in Causeway Bay. She studied in the Northcote College of Education’s Subsidiary Secondary School (which later became the Government Vernacular Senior Middle School). Having completed the 6-year secondary education, she was admitted in the first teachers’ training programme of the Grantham College of Education. After graduation, she first taught at Pui Tak Canossian Primary School and then at G.T.C. Past Students’ Association Tsz Wan Shan Primary School where she taught till retired in 1989.