Field Notes and Personal Communication Summaries - About Tai O Village, Hong Kong - January 2025

This dataset includes two documents. One is a field notes summary of an informal interview conducted by Associate Professor Daniel Elkin on January 24, 2025. The informal interview included Mr. Ben Siu Bun Chan and a Mr. Alan Lo, retired and formerly of the Hong Kong Lands Department. The topic of discussion was Tai O Village, Hong Kong, and stilt houses in Tai O Village.

The second document includes text transcribed from Whatsapp and sent to Associate Professor Daniel Elkin on or about the same date. The text is from a different "Mr. Lo," who is described as the son of a stilt house building contractor in Tai O Village. Ben Siu Bun Chan forwarded the text to Elkin on January 24, 2025 as part of their ongoing conversation about stilt housing in Tai O Village.