Frederick Fung Kin-kee SBS, JP |
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馮檢基 | |
Fung at the press conference of the Alliance for True Democracy in 2013
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Member of the Legislative Council | |
In office 1 October 2012 – 30 September 2016 |
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Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | Leung Yiu-chung |
Constituency | District Council (Second) |
In office 1 October 2000 – 30 September 2012 |
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Preceded by | New seat |
Succeeded by | Claudia Mo |
Constituency | Kowloon West |
In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council) |
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In office 9 October 1991 – 30 June 1997 |
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Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council |
Constituency | Kowloon West |
Chairman of the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood | |
In office 1989–2007 |
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Preceded by | Ding Lik-kiu |
Succeeded by | Bruce Liu |
Personal details | |
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Hong Kong |
17 March 1953
Political party | Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood |
Spouse(s) | Chan Man-chi |
Alma mater | Bradford University (BA) |
Occupation | Legislative Councillor |
Religion | Christianity |
Frederick Fung | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 馮檢基 | ||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 冯检基 | ||||||||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Fóng Jiǎnjī |
Yue: Cantonese | |
Yale Romanization | Fùhng Gím gēi |
Jyutping | Fung4 Gim2 gei1 |
Frederick Fung Kin-kee, SBS, JP (born 17 March 1953) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He is also former chairman of the pro-democracy Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL).
Fung was born in Hong Kong in 1953 with the family root of Dongguan. He entered the University of Hong Kong in 1974 but was ousted a year after because he spent too much time organising social movements and failed his exams. He then joined the pressure group Society for Community Organisation. He went to the United Kingdom in 1979 and obtained his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Policy and Public Administration at the University of Bradford in 1982.
After he returned to Hong Kong, he ran in the 1983 Urban Council election, the first free direct election for the municipal election. At the time he was the chairman of the Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy (PCPHP). In 1986, he co-founded the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) as vice chairman. The ADPL became one of the three major pro-democracy political groups in the 1980s.
In 1989, he replaced Ding Lik-kiu as chairman of the ADPL. Under his chairmanship, he refused to join his fellow democrats to form the United Democrats of Hong Kong, the first major pro-democracy party in 1990, citing the his association represented grassroots' interest whereas the United Democrats were more focused on the "middle class" At the time he also served as a member in the Hong Kong Housing Authority from 1990 to 1998.