Barbara Yung Mei-ling (7 May 1959 – 14 May 1985) was a Chinese television actress in Hong Kong during the early 1980s. She died aged 26, at the peak of her career. Yung was born in Hong Kong to an affluent civil service family as an only child. Her childhood was relatively uneventful until the death of her father when she was aged 7.
Yung left Hong Kong for England at age 15 (in late 1974) to re-join her mother and stepfather (TVB K100, 1985). He...
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Barbara Yung Mei-ling (7 May 1959 – 14 May 1985) was a Chinese television actress in Hong Kong during the early 1980s. She died aged 26, at the peak of her career. Yung was born in Hong Kong to an affluent civil service family as an only child. Her childhood was relatively uneventful until the death of her father when she was aged 7.
Yung left Hong Kong for England at age 15 (in late 1974) to re-join her mother and stepfather (TVB K100, 1985). Her mother had immigrated to England two years earlier. While in Hong Kong, Yung attended Rosaryhill School (located at Stubbs Road in Hong Kong), where she had completed her primary and some of her secondary education (TVB K100, 1985). She continued with her GCE O levels at a high school in Cambridge. Upon the completion of her O levels, she was admitted to a 2-year foundations program offered by the University of Cambridge. Upon the completion of this program, she went to London to study textile design at the prestigious Central School of Art ...
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