A feminist and self-described humanist she campaigned against racial discrimination while herself suffering from racist threats and intimidation
A feminist and self-described humanist who campaigned against racial discrimination while herself suffering from racist threats and intimidationaged 74, was the first politician born in east Asia to be elected to the Northern Assembly. She was described by the Alliance Party leader Naomi Long as a “trailblazer”.
She asked one of her brothers what name she should take. “He was reading Pride and Prejudice at the time and said I should take the name of Mr D’Arcy’s sister, Georgianna,” she said. “He wrote it out for me but half the class couldn’t say it and I couldn’t spell it, so I became Anna.” She first did secretarial work at a newspaper and then at the BBC where, when it was learned she spoke fluent Cantonese, she became a contributor to the World Service. She reported on the Vietnamese boat people who came to Northern Ireland in 1979.
Alliance leader Naomi Long said “her service to the Chinese community, to good relations and to the city of Belfast, much of which went unseen by most, was transformational” “I’m not going to be deterred by these people,” she said. “If they think that they can stop me from speaking out against them or speaking for the vulnerable people, new ethnic minority communities or migrant workers, they are mistaken.”
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