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...

Abstract Sandra K. Lee, a Chinese American of Taishanese descent, is the CEO and chair of Harold L. Lee & Sons, Inc., Insurance Services. Born in New York City, she lived in Flushing until age seven before moving to Great Neck in Long Island. She attended the University of Rochester, majoring in liberal arts and education. Seeking to be more involved in the Asian American Movement, she moved to California in the early 1970s to join the Asian Studies Department at UC Berkeley, where she helped...

Abstract Selina Chan is a nurse working at St. Vincent Hospital's Chinatown Clinic. She discusses her work in the clinic taking care of the Chinatown population, covering topics such as low-income patient care and how, as a Catholic charity, they often try to cover the majority of the costs for patients without insurance. Salina also describes the demographics of the immigrant population living in Chinatown who come for care at the clinic and notes a gradual shift from Cantonese speakers to majority...