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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
Lisa Eng, 1940 - 1956
Sub-Series
Identifier: 2019.031
Scope and Contents
351 photographs digitized in 600dpi. The photographs depict pictures of the donor's family.
Dates:
1940 - 1956
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 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 Cecilia Birge, August 16, 2020
Item
Identifier: 2020.020.003
Abstract
Recently appointed the Acting Assistant Principal of the Princeton High School, Cecilia Birge has also had extensive experience working in local politics, once serving as the mayor of Montgomery township, After emigrating from Beijing, China many years ago, Cecilia currently sees herself as being a Chinese-American as well as a proud democrat. Cecilia has long stay connected with the Chinese communities, citing that she could not have won her former mayorship with just the Chinese support,...
Dates:
August 16, 2020
Oral History Interview with Charlie Lai , 2012-07-12 - 2012-08-09
Item
Identifier: 2021.022.001
Abstract
Charlie Lai along with Jack Tchen are founders of the Chinatown History Project, which has gone on to become the Museum of Chinese in America. In this five part interview conducted over the course of several months Charlie talks about his childhood in Hong Kong and how his family eventually decided to immigrate to the United States when he was nine years old. He talks about living with his uncle when they first arrived in the states and saying on Long Island. His family eventually moves into...
Dates:
2012-07-12 - 2012-08-09
Oral History Interview with Chun Wai Wong, 1993-05
Item
Identifier: 1994.007.026
Abstract
In this interview, Chun Wai "Billy" Wong discusses his arrival to America and living in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn as compared to his birthplace of Hong Kong, China. He cites reasons why he likes living in New York. Wong describes the culture and lifestyle of the working Chinese community; the differences between Mainland Chinese people and Chinese people from Hong Kong, the means in which the Chinese travel back and forth from the neighborhoods, shopping at food stores, and...
Dates:
1993-05
Oral History Interview with Frank Wu, 2008
File
Identifier: 2008.041.011
Abstract
Frank Wu is a civil rights lawyer, professor, and award-winning author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. His book has become an essential text in Asian American Studies. He currently teaches law at Howard University and frequently lectures on civil rights law. “When I was a kid growing up, the last thing I ever would have wanted to do was talk about or think about race, ethnicity,” he recalls in this interview. Frank grew up in Detroit, Michigan in the 1970s. His...
Dates:
2008
Oral History Interview with Jack Tchen , 2012-09-05
Item
Identifier: 2021.022.002
Abstract
Jack Tchen along with Charlie Lai are founders of the Chinatown History Project, which has gone on to become the Museum of Chinese in America. In this multiple part interview Tchen discusses growing up in Wisconsin and his family’s ties to China. He then recounts his time at Madison college and how he got more involved in activism and Asian American studies. Next he discusses his time working at Basement workshop, how he met Charlie and working on exhibitions. He left Basement workshop with...
Dates:
2012-09-05
Oral History Interview with Mirian Yau Oyola, 2003-10-17
File
Identifier: 2014.036.011
Abstract
In this interview, Mirian Yau Oyola recounts her family’s migration from Guangdong, China to Panama and reminisces about her childhood growing up on a ranch and in a large Asian community in Panama. She chronicles her family’s eventual move to New York City, familial dynamics within a mixed family, the difficulties of cultural assimilation into American life with a Chinese stepmother, and the stark contrasts between life in Panama and America. Growing up in Brooklyn, she recalls how her...
Dates:
2003-10-17
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