Agency:
Helene Chung Martin
Agency Number:
Start Date:
20 Jan 1945
Description:
Helene Chung is a Tasmanian-born Chinese Australian journalist and author. ;;A fourth-generation Tasmanian, Helene Chung (He-LANE CHUNG as in HUNG) grew up in 1950s Hobart, where she and her sister, Lehene (Lay-HEEN), were the only Chinese Australians for almost all their years at St Mary's College. ;;Chung is an Honours graduate and Master of Arts in history of the University of Tasmania.;;As an undergraduate she was active in campus theatre through the Old Nick Company. In 1968 as a postgraduate student she recorded her first interview - with a butcher who claimed to have sighted the extinct Tasmanian tiger - and it was broadcast on ABC radio's national flagship, AM.;;Rejected as an ABC trainee because she was 'a girl', she freelanced in Hong Kong, Britain and Egypt and in 1971 at Buckingham Palace scooped the first radio interview granted by Princess Anne.;;Back in Australia, she joined ABC Sydney's AM/PM team. In 1974 she returned to Tasmania to join 'This Day Tonight' as the first non-white reporter on Australian television. ;;She transferred to Melbourne to be with her partner, history lecturer John Martin and, much later, his death would be the subject of her book, 'Gentle John: My Love My Loss'.;;As Beijing correspondent 1983-86 Chung was the first female posted abroad by the ABC. In this capacity she also freelanced for BBC, CBS, NPR, NZBC and Hong Kong radio.;;Her first book, 'Shouting from China', was written as Edward Wilson Fellow in Journalism at Deakin University, Geelong, where she would later teach journalism while a specialist reporter on North Asian affairs at the Overseas Service, Radio Australia, Melbourne. She also presented the daily International Report on Radio National.;;In 1998 she began fifteen years as an adjunct research fellow at Melbourne's Monash Asia Institute, which assisted her in writing 'Lazy Man in China' and her autobiography, 'Ching Chong China Girl: From fruitshop to foreign correspondent'.
Information Sources:
Helene Chung
Functions Performed:
Arts and culture
Related Agencies:
Stanley Martin (Photographer) (NG2239) | 01 Jan 1904 |
Series Created By Agency:
NS4820 Dorothy Henry Greener Diaries, Note Books and Certificates. | 01 Oct 1937 | 31 Dec 2013 |
NS4784 Personal Papers - School and University | 01 Jan 1940 | 21 Feb 1998 |
NS4826 Dorothy Henry Greener Collection - Artists, Correspondence and Other | 17 Dec 1941 | 30 Aug 2014 |
NS4831 Paintings and Photographs Etc from Dorothy Henry Greener Collection and Lehene Chung Goodenday Collection | 01 Sep 1944 | 01 Jun 2013 |
NS4821 Dorothy Henry Greener - Correspondence and Memorabilia | 16 Apr 1951 | 01 Jul 2014 |
NS4828 Lehene Chung Goodenday Correspondence, Clippings, Documents and Other Records. | 01 Dec 1955 | 01 Aug 2014 |
NS4824 Dorothy Henry Greener Note Books and Clippings | 19 Dec 1964 | 01 Jun 2014 |
NS4825 Lehene Chung Goodenday Collection - Leslie Greener | 01 Nov 1970 | 11 Jun 1989 |
NS4827 Dorothy Henry Greener Cassette Tapes Mostly recorded Off Air. | 22 Aug 1975 | 01 Dec 1989 |
NS4776 Manuscript and Research Notes - Lazy Man in China | 30 Aug 1976 | 17 Jan 2004 |
NS5057 Health Files | 01 Jan 1978 | 31 Dec 1998 |
NS4779 John Martin M.a. Research Cards | 14 Feb 1978 | 30 Dec 1983 |
NS4818 Lehene Chung Goodenday Essays | 12 May 1979 | 01 Sep 1981 |
NS4777 John Martin - Correspondence with Family, Friends and Colleagues | 01 Nov 1979 | 05 Aug 1996 |
NS4781 Correspondence Australia - Japan Foundation Journalist Award | 07 Oct 1982 | 06 Jul 1983 |
NS4778 Notebooks - including China 1983-86 and Reporters Paraphernalia | 01 Jan 1983 | 31 Dec 1993 |
NS4774 Manuscript and Research Notes - Shouting from China | 01 Feb 1986 | 06 May 1988 |
NS4771 Correspondence re Purchase and Renovations - Chung Martin House. | 27 Nov 1986 | 19 Feb 1993 |
NS4770 Architect Plans - Chung Martin House | 01 Dec 1986 | 01 Mar 1988 |
NS4773 Manuscript and Research Notes - Gentle John | 27 Oct 1993 | 11 Apr 1997 |
NS4772 Estate of Lehene Dorothy Goodenday | 01 Jan 2001 | 29 May 2002 |
NS4775 Manuscript and Research Notes - Ching Chong China Girl | 19 Jan 2003 | 10 Apr 2008 |
NS4780 Study at Rmit | 21 Feb 2005 | 14 Nov 2005 |
NS4832 Inventory - Compiled by Helene Chung Martin, August 2014 | 01 Aug 2014 |