Showing Records: 1 - 5 of 5
Oral History Interview with Billy and Duyen Chang, March 4, 2021
Item
Identifier: 2020.020.034
Abstract
Billy and Duyen Chang are originally immigrants from Hong Kong and Vietnam respectively who grew up in the U.S. and now live in the D.C. Metro area. They both faced challenges while assimilating to American life and culture, most notably in learning English, but they were both able to fully adjust to life in the U.S. after their initial transition periods. When their families immigrated to the U.S. (Duyen’s family moved to the suburbs of Chicago, while Billy’s originally moved to Miami) they...
Dates:
March 4, 2021
Oral History Interview with Jefferson Li, October 20, 2020
Item
Identifier: 2020.020.028
Abstract
Jefferson Li’s family owns and runs the New York Chinatown butcher shop 47 Division Street Trading Inc. Like many Chinatown businesses, his family business took a huge economic hit due to the pandemic. Li took to the popular social news aggregator website Reddit to try and drum up business by publicizing their low prices to New Yorkers who wouldn’t normally be their primary demographic, becoming a pseudo celebrity in the process. As someone who has been in the Chinatown community prior to...
Dates:
October 20, 2020
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 Marcella Dear, May 24, 2013
Item
Identifier: 2013.022.006
Abstract
Marcella Dear, a longtime friend of MOCA and a generous donor of over 900 objects, joins us to discuss her exciting life and her memories of Chinatown. Marcella goes into depth about many of the objects she donated, and discusses not only their significance as sentimental objects but also how these objects were used in their original setting, at the Rice Bowl restaurant on Mott Street. Marcella’s father founded the Rice Bowl, and she discusses her childhood growing up in and around the...
Dates:
May 24, 2013
Oral History Interview with Wing Lee, April 5, 2013
Item
Identifier: 2013.022.009
Abstract
Tomie Arai and Janice Lau sit down with Wing Lee to discuss his life and his experience growing up in and around New York City’s Chinatown in the ‘60s through the ‘80s. Wing talks about what it was like as a kid being raised in the US with Chinese parents, and growing up on the streets of Chinatown. He talks about the schools he went to in the area, and all the spots the neighborhood kids used to hang out. Later on in his late teenage years, he describes the experience at a popular...
Dates:
April 5, 2013
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) 4
- Community organization. 3
- Immigration 3
- Education 2
- Family-owned business enterprises 2
- Gentrification 2
- Art 1
- Artist & art 1
- COVID-19 (Disease) 1
- Chinese American artists 1
- Chinese American business enterprises 1
- Chinese American families 1
- Chinese American teenagers 1
- Chinese Americans 1
- Collections and legacies 1
- Community Service (Education) 1
- Culture 1
- Entrepreneurship 1
- Immigration & society 1
- Mutual Aid Societies 1
- Night Life in New York 1
- Racism. 1
- Youth 1 ∧ less
∨ more