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Oral History Interview with Ivan Small, July 31, 2020
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Identifier: 2020.020.013
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Dr. Ivan Small is a professor of sociocultural anthropology at Central Connecticut State University. Professor Small is a bi-racial Vietnamese American and first became interested in his Asian heritage after visiting his relatives in Vietnam during his college years. His research weaves together cultural anthropology with Asian studies, economic anthropology and research about migration and transnationalism. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Small published an article in the...
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July 31, 2020
Oral History Interview with Wing Ma, 2003-11-07
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Identifier: 2014.036.016
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Wing Ma (Ma Wing Guo) was born in China to a poor farming family who moved to Hong Kong as refugees when he was age two. Wing talks about his life growing up in Hong Kong with his mother working in the garment industry and his father working as a chef in Manila. He studied until post-secondary school before moving to the United States to train and work as an engineer. Wing would eventually join the garment industry as a factory owner, and describes the industry’s decline over time due to...
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2003-11-07
Oral History Interview with Yu Jenny Wang, September 24, 2020
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Identifier: 2020.020.024
Dates:
September 24, 2020
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