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Bruce Lee: a Warrior's Journey, 2000
Item
Identifier: 2017.003.025
Abstract
Bruce Lee: a Warrior's Journey premiered in 2000 and was directed by Bruce Lee.
Dates:
2000
David Henry Hwang, 1981-2014
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This sub-series includes playbills, newspaper and magazine clips, photographs, books, journals, and CDs and DVD with the subject of David Henry Hwang and his productions: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, Bondage, Face Value, Family Devotions, Flower Drum Song, FOB, Golden Child, M. Butterfly, Sound and Beauty, The Dance and The Railroad, and The Voyage.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1981-2014
Ernest K. H. Eng Album, 1945-1962
Series
Identifier: 2016.006.001-2016.006.407
Scope and Contents
-Digital copies of Captain Ernest K. H. Eng's photo album; including images of his tour in China with the mission of General George Catlett Marshall, and other political figures of China such as Zhou, Enlai and Chiang, Kai-shek during the war from September 1945 to June 1948, his wedding pictures in China in 1946, and his family photos after returning to America from China, a total of 40 pages (no images on the last page), as well as notes and newspaper clippings on album pages, some loosing...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1945-1962
Ernest K. H. Eng Letters, 1953-1955
Series
Identifier: 2016.006.408-2016.006.410
Scope and Contents
The three letters came from George Catlett Marshall. Ernest Eng worked with General Marshall during his mission in China from 1945 to 1948. The letters were the conversation of them from they back to the United States. All of the three are greeting letters from General Marshall.
Dates:
1953-1955
Miscellaneous Periodicals, 1877-2016
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
The sub-series consists of journals and periodicals as well as pages removed from them. A portion of the materials are periodicals that are devoted to Chinese or Asian American cultures. Others either include articles or photographs of Asian American subjects, media scene, and Chinatown, or have cover art or illustrations by Chinese American artists.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1877-2016
Oral History Interview with Alice Eng and Anne Lee, 2000-11-18
Item
Identifier: 2015.008.001
Abstract
Alice Eng and Anne Lee are sisters who discuss what life was like growing up in New York City in a big family. After living in Brooklyn for the first few years of their lives, their family then moved to China. However they then returned to the United States as refugees and their family then relocated to Midtown. Some of their family members fought in World War II and both women went to graduate high school, get married and become homemakers. In the interview they express their interests in...
Dates:
2000-11-18
Oral History Interview with Anita Lo, 2015-10-23
Item
Identifier: 2016.037.015
Abstract
Anita Lo is a first-generation Chinese American cook. She grew up in Birmingham, Michigan and found an interest in food through discovering different cultures. She studied French At Columbia University and it prevailed her to study in France. After studying, she came back to the United States and worked in restaurants around New York City. After working at several restaurants, including David Waltuck’s Chanterelle, she developed her own contemporary American style. Lo opened her restaurant...
Dates:
2015-10-23
Oral History Interview with Anna Sui, 2008
File
Identifier: 2008.041.010
Abstract
Anna Sui is an internationally acclaimed fashion designer. Her hip, exuberant, original designs take you on a creative journey and mixes vintage styles with her current cultural obsessions. Whether inspired by Victorian cowboys, Warhol superstars or Finnish textile prints, her depth of cultural knowledge is always apparent. “When I’m interested in something, I want to know everything about it,” she says.Sui shares the memory of her first trip to visit her grandparents in China,...
Dates:
2008
Oral History Interview with Arthur Dong, 1999-09-09
Item
Identifier: 2015.008.002
Abstract
Arthur Dong begins this interview discussing the nightclub scene for Asian Americans during World War II and how there was a positive association with Chinese Americans and China that many of the US felt in contrast to a negative image of Japanese. He goes on to comment on the number of Japanese and Korean American (all American born) performers that masqueraded as Chinese American and reflects upon defying and performing stereotypes in regard to Chinese American performers and rolls in...
Dates:
1999-09-09
Oral History Interview with Blanche Leung, 2004-06-16
File
Identifier: 2014.036.001
Abstract
Blanche Leung, M.D., was born on April 16, 1970 in Queens, New York to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Canton, China. She sits down to recount the immigration story of her parents, from when they left China as young children following the Communist changeover to their time in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada and the United States, where they ultimately settled in 1969. Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a hematology lab manager. She talks extensively about the family pharmacy...
Dates:
2004-06-16
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