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Oral History Interview with Alice Eng and Anne Lee, 2000-11-18
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Identifier: 2015.008.001
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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...
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2000-11-18
Oral History Interview with Angela Ng, 2004-01-20
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Identifier: 2014.036.009
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Angela Ng immigrated to the United States in 1970 from Hong Kong and worked as a unionized garment worker for over 25 years. In the interview, she describes her work and experience as a garment worker, and talks about the changes happening in the garment industry. She also discusses union benefits, work conditions, family life for workers, pay, and job availability.
On September 11th, 2001, Angela was working at the garment factory when she noticed a plane fly too low overhead and heard an...
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2004-01-20
Oral History Interview with Biying Ni, 2015-12-04
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Identifier: 2016.037.016
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Ni Biying talks about her experiences growing up in China and her experience with food over the years as she survives the Japanese invasion from an early age and moves to the US to find work during her adulthood. She imparts interesting knowledge about the regional cuisine from Fujian, China (Fujianese food) and gives insight into the types of food eaten from her rural roots in China. She describes food eaten during times of poverty as well as the difficulties she experiences while trying to...
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2015-12-04
Oral History Interview with Blanche Leung, 2004-06-16
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Identifier: 2014.036.001
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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...
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2004-06-16
Oral History Interview with Cambao de Duong, 2003-11-17
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Identifier: 2014.036.002
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Cambao de Duong is a Chinese-Vietnamese immigrant born in Saigon, South Vietnam to Chinese parents. Cambao grew up in a multicultural environment and learned to speak Chao Chow, Vietnamese, Cantonese, and Mandarin. He would receive a high level of education in Vietnam, and inspired by one of his principals, became an educator. De Duong would teach at the college level until he received an officer commission in the South Vietnam army. Given his previous service in the South Vietnamese...
Dates:
2003-11-17
Oral History Interview with Cecilia Birge, August 16, 2020
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Identifier: 2020.020.003
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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 Cecilia Chiang, 2015-12-21
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Identifier: 2016.037.006
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Cecilia Chiang her incredible life story from wartime China all the way to becoming a restaurant owner in New York City. Her interview is riddled with her fascinations towards Chinese cuisine as she narrates the role Chinese cuisine has made during the turbulent events of her life, from her journey to Chongqing during the Japanese invasion of China to her time in Japan. She expresses her fondness of Chinese cuisine through a genuine desire to share the wonderful variety of Chinese food as...
Dates:
2015-12-21
Oral History Interview with Chris Chan, 2004-05-24
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Identifier: 2014.036.003
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Chris Chan is a Chinese immigrant who works for the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA). Born in China, Chris moved to Macau at two years of age following the Communist takeover of China. During his young adult years, he worked as a construction laborer in Hong Kong during the 1970s and 80s construction boom before being sponsored by his sister to immigrate to the United States in 1984. Chris describes the various construction and labor jobs he took on in the early years, the differences...
Dates:
2004-05-24
Oral History Interview with David Chen, Part 1, 2003-07-10
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Identifier: 2014.036.014
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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
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