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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Chan is Missing is a film directed by Wayne Wang that premiered in 1982.

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The sub-series includes four books. Three are authored by Rose Quong: Chinese Wit, Wisdom and Written Characters; Chinese Ghost and Love Stories, and Chinese Written Characters, Their Wit and Wisdom. The fourth book, The Flower Drum Song, a work by C.Y. Lee, belonged to Quong and was purchased on eBay by Alex Jay.

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The materials in this sub-series include a variety of periodicals with articles and short stories by C. Y. Lee.

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The materials in this series include one book, "Hawaiian Steel Guitar" (1996), and an issue of a cartoon magazine with a profile on Zane from 1915. In addition, there is a Chinese Exclusion Act Case File for John Zane with a transcript of his interrogation after his arrival in New York in 1924.

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The items in this sub-series contain five books authored by Mai-Mai Sze about Chinese painting and her family. In addition, there are a few periodicals, one of which is an issue of "Asia" magazine from 1936 with a portrait of Sze on the cover.

Abstract A New York native and Metro reporter for The New York Times, Jennifer 8. Lee is also the author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, a book investigating the history of Chinese food in the U.S. and around the world. “The point of my research was to make people think twice about what it means to be American. There’s a part of being an outsider in America yet being an insider,” she says.Lee was fascinated with the number 8 during middle school because of its symmetry and its meaning...

Abstract A Chinese-Malaysian journalist and director of marketing communications at Kalamazoo Community Foundations, Sarah Lee reflects upon her article “Why do I cook?”, an intimate examination of the connection between food and identity. She connects the methodical process of cooking to the more personal and vulnerable lens of her heritage, as food becomes a way of expressing community, care, and love between her and her family. Lee also discusses her 31 Stories for AAPI Month project, in which her...

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The materials in this sub-series contain Pardee Lowe's book, "Father and Glorious Descendant," from 1943; periodicals with articles by Lowe from the 1930s; and a Chinese Exclusion Act Case File of Pardee (Low Yay Chong) Lowe from the National Archives.