Scope and Contents This collection mostly contains materials procured by Alex Jay and focus on Chinese American writers and playwrights, artists and illustrators, actors, comic book artists, filmmakers, designers, and architects. There are various periodicals, artwork, books, comic books, recipes, playbills, and other items either by Chinese Americans or about Chinese Americans, all dating between 1914 and 2015. Objects are also searchable via PastPerfect Online System at...

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This sub-series includes multiple DVDs of Ang Lee's films, books and magazines, as well as a full folder of newspaper and magazine articles and film reviews of Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility, and The Ice Storm.

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This sub-series includes two objects--a newspaper cover and a periodical--about Chinese American actress Anna May Wong.

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This sub-series features three soundtrack CDs and six DVDs of eight films. The films belong to two categories. One is documentary films about Bruce Lee and Hong Kong action film scene: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999), Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000), The Art of Action (2002), Chop Socky (2003). The rest are three films in which Brandon Lee are present: Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), Rapid Fire (1992), The Crow (1994).

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The materials in this series consist of correspondence from the wife of Chu Hing, Helga; designs by Alex Jay and Chu Hing; comic books; other books; and periodicals. The bulk of the comics date from the 1940s. In addition, the series contains a Chinese Exclusion Act Cast File for Chu Fook Hing and his sister.

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This collections consists of two commemorative plaques; paper documents on the life of Clarence Lee; prints of Lee's artwork on stamps; and 150 signed copies of Lee's 1999 Year of the Hare commemorative stamp. Objects are also searchable via PastPerfect Online System at http://mocanyc.pastperfectonline.com/randomimages.

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This sub-series includes playbills, newspaper and magazine clips, photographs, books, journals, and CDs and DVD with the subject of David Henry Hwang and his productions: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, Bondage, Face Value, Family Devotions, Flower Drum Song, FOB, Golden Child, M. Butterfly, Sound and Beauty, The Dance and The Railroad, and The Voyage.

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This sub-series consists of book and comic books that include artworks by Fred C Eng, the Chinese American artist. The Comic books include Classic Comics, Classic Illustrated, Jetta of the 21st Century, and Sunny.

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This sub-series includes books and periodicals related to Chinese American artist Frederick Ronald Eng. Most of the materials collected include Eng's photographs, illustrations, and drawings. One book is about the recent history of Tivoli, NY, where Eng moved with his wife from NYC after WWII.

The sub-series also includes a vinyl record album titled "Buy Buy Baby".

Abstract These interviews were conducted for MOCA's 2013 fashion exhibition, Front Row. The exhibition traced and celebrated the rise of Chinese American designers who have made their mark in the international world of fashion. In the interviews, the designers discuss the diversity of their aesthetics, their individualized approaches to branding, and how their varying personal relationship to cultural identity has shaped what we now understand as not only New York fashion, but an American sense of...