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Interview with Lea Salonga, August 8, 2003
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Identifier: 2017.032.009
Scope and Contents
A phone interview conducted with Lea Salonga on August 8, 2003 by David Lewis Hammarstrom. Lea starred as Mei-Li in the 2002 revival of "Flower Drum Song" written by David Henry Hwang.Throughout the interview, Lea is asked to share her thoughts on the differences between the Los Angeles and New York performances of “Flower Drum Song.” Most notably, she is asked about the potential impact of factors such as audience and critical reception might have had on the success of the show...
Dates:
August 8, 2003
Oral History Interview with Agnes Wong, 2004-05-21
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Identifier: 2014.036.018
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
9/11 Chinatown Documentation Project includes oral history interviews of people who lived or worked in the Lower East Side during the events on September 11th, 2001. The individuals whose stories were collected are of diverse immigrant, educational, age and socio-economic backgrounds. The interviewees reflect on the tragedy and discuss how their lives and the lives of others in the community were affected by it. The interviews help to paint a portrait of how the New York Chinatown we know...
Dates:
2004-05-21
Oral History Interview with Alice Young, 2004-07-01
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Identifier: 2014.036.019
Abstract
Alice Young is a career teacher and principal who has lived most of her life in Brooklyn. She begins the interview by sharing the story of her family’s immigration to the United States and about her family’s laundry business. Alice reminisces about her childhood and school life leading up to her time at Brooklyn College, where she studied to become an elementary school teacher. As an NYC school teacher, she worked in different boroughs including Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. She...
Dates:
2004-07-01
Oral History Interview with Angela Ng, 2004-01-20
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Identifier: 2014.036.009
Abstract
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...
Dates:
2004-01-20
Oral History Interview with Blanche Leung, 2004-06-16
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Identifier: 2014.036.001
Abstract
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...
Dates:
2004-06-16
Oral History Interview with Chris Chan, 2004-05-24
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Identifier: 2014.036.003
Abstract
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
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 David Chen, Part 2, 2004-07-13
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Identifier: 2014.036.015
Abstract
In this interview, David Chen discusses his work at Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) as an activist in New York City's Chinatown. Chen is the director of CPC, a private organization started in 1965 serving the public and focusing on low-income immigrant families, mostly Chinese. Services offered include language classes, translations, daycare centers, job training for adults, senior citizen care, childcare, and Meals on Wheels. Prior to his work at CPC, Chen worked for the mayor in...
Dates:
2004-07-13
Oral History Interview with Dr. Sun-Hoo Foo, 2004-07-14
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Identifier: 2014.036.020
Abstract
In this interview, Dr. Sun-Hoo Foo discusses his profession as a doctor in Chinatown as well as his personal family background. Dr. Sun-Hoo Foo talks about his cultural roots, his training, his specialty as the director of neurology, and the aftermath of 9/11 and how 9/11 impacted his patients. Dr. Sun-Hoo Foo He mentions how there are multiple outreach organizations throughout America and Canada that help Chinese immigrants who are sick. He mentions the differences between Western and...
Dates:
2004-07-14
Oral History Interview with Guo-Gan Yan, 2004-03-08
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Identifier: 2014.036.025
Abstract
Mr. Guo-Gan Yan is an immigrant who arrived in the United States from Guangdong, China in the 1990s in search of better educational opportunities for his daughter. Yan describes his life and career in Guangdong before immigrating. He details aspects of life in China related to recreation and work habits and compares it to his life in the United States. Yan also describes the effects of the 9/11 Terrorist attacks on his job as a restaurant worker in Chinatown, and the assistance he received...
Dates:
2004-03-08
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