Confronting the past: understanding our parent’s mental health

For many, migration is closely linked with periods of conflict, displacement, and political upheaval. Wars, socio-political movements and tensions have caused many Chinese people to migrate to other countries. As younger generations grow up with more distant ties to their Chinese heritage, and limited knowledge of the historical traumas that shaped their families, how can they begin to understand the pain that their parents and communities have often left unspoken? In this episode, Wing Kuang and Dennis Fang talk to Hong Kong-Australian mental health advocate Jocelyn Chan and Aboriginal-born Chinese journalist Phoebe Mcilwraith on how to look after our parents and our mental health through the lens of history.