Barbara Yung Mei-ling

Barbara Yung Mei-ling (Chinese: 翁美玲, 7 May 1959 – 14 May 1985) was a Chinese television actress in Hong Kong during the early 1980s. She died at the age of 26, at the peak of her career. Yung was born in Hong Kong to a 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 rejoin her mother who had immigrated to the United Kingdom (TVB K100 Feature Interview, 1985). Yung, her mother and a family friend whom Yung considered as her "uncle" first moved to Islington near London. Together as a family, they later settled in Histon, a small village in Cambridge, England. Yung's mother and family friend operated...