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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 Anne Ho, 2013-02-15
Item
Identifier: 2013.022.001
Abstract
Anne Ho is a longtime resident of Chinatown in New York City. Ho reflects on how her family moved to the United States and her early childhood growing up in Chinatown. She discusses the garment factory her mother worked at along with her daily routine living in Chinatown. She continues the discussion of garment factories by stating their importance of Chinatown during her childhood along with how Chinatown has changed overall. She then goes to discuss the development of Confucius Plaza and...
Dates:
2013-02-15
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 CAAV Youth, 2008-02-06
Item
Identifier: 2008.040.001
Abstract
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities is a nonprofit community outreach organization dedicated to empowering poor and working class Asian immigrants and refugees in New York City. In this interview, four high school-aged summer interns at CAAAV describe their contributions to a map project that documents the Chinatown landscape. Through excursions in Chinatown, interviews with local residents, and extensive research, these students analyzed the force of gentrifications in New Yorks Lower East...
Dates:
2008-02-06
Oral History Interview with Charlie Lai , 2012-07-12 - 2012-08-09
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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 Clara Tsu and Cynthia Yee, August 2, 2021
Item
Identifier: 2021.025.005
Abstract
In San Francisco’s Chinatown, Clara Hsu and Cynthia Yee are channeling their passion for the arts to support the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the President of the Clarion Music Centre, Clara teaches music, acting and Chinese poetry while producing plays, directing comedy skits and pursuing her own love for writing. Through her involvement in Chinatown she met Cynthia, a seasoned performer who has travelled the globe and is also the founder of the Grant Avenue Follies, a senior...
Dates:
August 2, 2021
Oral History Interview with Daniel Carter and Marilyn Sontag, 2008-01-02
Item
Identifier: 2008.040.009
Abstract
Husband and wife Daniel Carter and Marilyn Sontag moved together to Chinatown in 1970, where they continue to live and work today—Carter as a musician and writer and Sontag as an abstract artist and part-time gallery coordinator. In their interview, they describe their meeting in Italy and their decision to subsequently relocate to New York City. The couple illustrates Chinatowns community of artists present during the 70s and 80s, and describes the ways in which that atmosphere has changed....
Dates:
2008-01-02
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
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