Abstract Yun Xing Huang was interviewed by MOCA to talk about his immigration and living experiences in New York City’s Chinatown. As a professional singer, Huang owned a nightclub in Fujian before coming to the US during the prevalent immigration wave in China. He worked as a food delivery person before opening a floral shop on his own, singing songs for wedding parties, and acting in films. He praised the brave spirit of Fujianese people but touched upon the geographical discrimination between...

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The documents in this series include a pack of cigars, medical receipts, unopened correspondence, photographs, and an immigration notice from Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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The documents in this series include items such as cards, notebooks, herbal recipes, letters, and envelopes.

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The documents in this series include personal correspondence; illustrations (in pencil, pastel, and pen); and holiday and greeting cards in Chinese and English. The bulk of the material is research and mock-ups for a book that Samuel S. Fung was trying to write and possibly publish.

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The document in this series is a photograph.

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This series contains various sizes of black and white and color photographs. The images are mostly comprised of family portraits, family gatherings, individual portraits, lion dancers, candid images, landscape images, and images of shops. The exact location of the pictures is unknown, and the photographer has yet to be identified. Some of the photographs are accompanied by notes and diagrams, written on the bottom or back of the image, which indicate individuals pictured.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, sketches, drawings, blueprints, documents, and objects. Photographs and newspaper articles portray Lee’s life in New York and China, his family, and his architectural projects. Letters and documents record business transactions, proposals, legal contracts and the experiences after the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. The objects encompass some of the essential tools of the trade used by an architect. Lee...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of class materials, objects, photographs, and printed material either salvaged or donated by various individuals. The class materials include teacher's master copies of worksheets, student evaluations, and students' notes. The objects consist of 4 autograph albums donated by former students, an artwork, and two drawers filled with student report cards. The photographs mostly consist of class photographs, in black and white, although there are a few in color. These...

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials gathered by Samuel S. Fung that focus on the Chinese-American boy scouting experience and self-publishing practices for amateur authors. There are various periodicals, photographs, maps, book mock-ups, illustrations, certificates, Boy Scout memorabilia, Boy Scout records, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, font samples, composition notebooks, journals, coupons, general correspondence, receipts, and other items produced between the 1910s to the...

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This collection consists entirely of paper documents, including a copy of Tan's proposal for the Chinatown program; a postcard for a photography exhibition; some handwritten notes about a 9 1/2 year old girl; an Asian Americans United fact sheet from 1993 or 1994; and a 1996 newsletter from the Coalition for Asian-American Children and Families.