Huang Chen-ya
Hong Kong politician
Huang Chen-ya (Chinese: 黃震遐; born 4 November 1939) is a Hong Kong neurologist and former politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party and was the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1991–97) for Hong Kong Island West.
Biography
He was a third-generation Chinese Singaporean. His father, Huang Ying Jung, was educated in law in China and the United States and obtained a doctoral degree and later opened up a law firm in Shanghai and taught at the National Central University and the Soochow University. Born in Shanghai in 1939, Huang moved with his father to his father's birthplace in 1949, where his father took a teaching post at the Nanyang University and later became the university's acting vice-chancellor.
Huang was educated in Singapore and Australia and attended the Medical School of the University of Hong Kong in 1963. He was an editor of the student journal, Undergrad, and resigned from the post with other editors to protest against the university's decision to cut the Chinese version of the journal in 1965. Huang's move sparked the discussion on the discrimination against the usage of Chinese language, in which he advocated the Chinese Movement and the use of Chinese as a medium in the Hong Kong University Students' Union. He also led the students to do voluntary work in the society.
In 1970, Huang moved to Australia to further his studies in neurology for 10 years.
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