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Opera Manuscripts, 1996-2009
Series — Box: 1-3
Scope and Contents
Cantonese opera manuscripts, mostly handwritten, with 公尺谱, a movable-do, similar to the Solfège：do, re, mi fa, so, la, si. They are stamps on the manuscipts, such as 团艺中乐社 Tuen Ngai (Yip Yue) Chung Lok She 青桃径3号安丽大厦 On Lai Building, 3 Tsing To Path，New Territories, Tuen Mun，Hong Kong、曲艺苑 Arts and Performance Center、莲花曲艺社 Lotus Art Club of Singing 香港鰂魚涌英皇道1026号1/F D7 后座 1/F D7 2nd Buiding, 1026 King's Road, QuarryBay, Hong Kong 852-92173931 852-22141267 86-755-2327551、仙乐曲艺社 Sin Lok Music Art、...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
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 David Chen, Part 1, 2003-07-10
File
Identifier: 2014.036.014
Abstract
During the interview, David Chen discusses his experience as a Chinese American activist and director of the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), and his theory of activism. When Chen was younger, he rarely spoke. He would always wait for someone else to say the right thing, to which he would then agree. One time, as a younger student, he was forced to present a project because two of his partners did not show up. One of his classmates expressed how well-spoken he was and at that moment,...
Dates:
2003-07-10
Oral History Interview with Fai Ling Lee, 1993-11-17
Item
Identifier: 1994.007.017
Abstract
In this interview, Fai Ling "Alice" Lee discusses the development of the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn; from a sleepy, dilapidated, majority-Norwegian area in the 1970s to a thriving Chinese diaspora in the 1980s and 1990s. She describes the economic and working conditions faced by her father, who worked in a Times Square Chinese restaurant, and her mother, a seamstress in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan. The interview focuses on real estate investing in Sunset Park; home...
Dates:
1993-11-17
Oral History Interview with Henry Ye, 2004-03-11
File
Identifier: 2014.036.005
Abstract
Henry Ye of True Light Church is the Director of Immigrant Services at New Life Center, a Lutheran social service organization started shortly after 9/11. Henry was born in Canton in 1979 and moved from China in 1982 to live in Panama for a period with his sister and her family. Henry would eventually move to New York City to attend Lower East Side Preparatory High School and CUNY City College to become a psychologist. He began his career as a social worker with the Chinatown YMCA and a case...
Dates:
2004-03-11
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 Jeanie Chin, 2004-05-20
File
Identifier: 2014.036.006
Abstract
Jeanie Chin has been a resident of Park Row for over twenty years. Her parents were from Toisan, China. Her mother was the main caretaker and a garment factory worker in Chinatown, while her father is a World War 2 veteran who returned to work as laundry worker, restaurant owner and landowner. Jeanie recalls her childhood living in the Bronx and spending time in Chinatown during the sixties and seventies and describes Chinatown as smaller and populated mainly by people from Toisan and...
Dates:
2004-05-20
Oral History Interview with Jeannie Jackson, 2004-07-13
File
Identifier: 2014.036.007
Abstract
Jeannie Lee Jackson is a Chinese American and native New Yorker. She recounts the origins of her seemingly unusual surname for her ethnicity. She recalls her childhood in Brooklyn, growing up as the only Chinese person in her school, working in the family's laundry business, and the role Manhattan's Chinatown played in her life. As a former member of the Ging Hawk Club, she remembers the social activities she engaged in and how it led to her serendipitous meeting of her husband. Jeannie...
Dates:
2004-07-13
Oral History Interview with Jenny Ye, 2013-03-19
Item
Identifier: 2013.022.005
Abstract
Jenny Ye is a college student at Harvard University and spent her childhood in Chinatown. In this oral history Ye focuses on her childhood and experiences attending public schools in the New York City Chinatown area. She recounts spending time with her family and her cousins and growing up in Chinatown. Ye attended PS 124 and shares her autograph book as she recounts fond memories during elementary school. She also discusses her time in middle and high school with her involvement in CCAV and...
Dates:
2013-03-19
Oral History Interview with Jing Cai, July 30, 2020
Item
Identifier: 2020.020.009
Dates:
July 30, 2020
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