{"id":94621,"date":"2026-10-21T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94621"},"modified":"2026-10-21T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:05:59","slug":"he-is-my-driving-force-how-a-hong-kong-born-mother-built-a-legacy-for-her-disabled-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94621","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He is my driving force\u2019: how a Hong Kong-born mother built a legacy for her disabled son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/20\/73c70546-bf1e-4e11-80d1-b08b3507dd12_1f469f25.jpg?itok=6Gdu04CK&amp;v=1792494321\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Georgina Tang\u2019s childhood was deeply unhappy. Growing up in poverty in Hong Kong\u2019s New Territories in the 1960s, as one of eight children born into an arranged marriage, her first memories are of physical abuse at the hands of her jealous mother.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhen they were forced to marry at the age of 21, my father was in love with another woman, whom he never quite forgot about,\u201d says Tang, now 63. \u201cIt drove my mother crazy. It made her furious that I was my father\u2019s favourite \u2013 she hated me because he was affectionate towards me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tang recalls her mother beating her with a bamboo stick until it splintered, and worse. \u201cShe would starve me and send me away while everyone else was eating,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A thin and sickly child, Tang was frequently ill but rarely taken to see a doctor or given medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3371491\/he-my-driving-force-how-hong-kong-born-mother-built-legacy-her-disabled-son\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgina Tang\u2019s childhood was deeply unhappy. Growing up in poverty in Hong Kong\u2019s New Territories in the 1960s, as one of eight children born into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2199,10754,27,1285,3569,10326,4490,1432,2126],"class_list":["post-94621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-built","tag-disabled","tag-driving","tag-force","tag-hong","tag-kongborn","tag-legacy","tag-mother","tag-son","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}