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Karen Young Ford

On September 11, 2014 By admin
I am a 3rd generation Chinese/american. I make functional porcelain/ glass tableware. I grew up in Huntington, NY one of the only chinese families in [...]
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Jacky Tran

On August 18, 2014 By admin
I was the first us-born child of my sino-vietnamese father and vietnamese mother. We lived in the Bay Area – a region with a well-deserved [...]
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Park Jing Wong

On August 18, 2014 By admin
PARK JING WONG lived between APRIL 26, 1934 and July 14, 2014. He was born and raised IN a village of TAISHAN, A CITY IN [...]
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Alice Young

On August 18, 2014 By admin
Lawyer, Independent Director, Advisor, Public Service Advocate and mother- Alice Young has many different roles in her life. Born in Washington, D.C. of Chinese diplomat [...]
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Michael Kan

On August 18, 2014 By admin
Isn’t it strange that Michael Kan, a Chinese-American should have appeared in a Detroit publication photographed with one of the most famous and outstanding pieces [...]
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Aimee Li

On August 18, 2014 By admin
1983 Colors of GuangzhouIt is 1983. The air hangs as heavy as ripe red fruit does off the colonies of banyan trees. My mother is [...]
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Lisa Dare

On August 8, 2014 By admin
I am an artist, scholar, curator and filmmaker. I was the first person allowed to major in film at the university of California, Berkeley, and [...]
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Margaret Lu

On August 8, 2014 By admin
My name is Margaret Lu. I was born in Shanghai on the eve of the Communist take-over of the city. Under the influence and tutorage [...]
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Jerry Zhu

On August 8, 2014 By admin
Jerry Zhu, born and raised in Shanghai, China, studied law at the Law Research Institute of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He emigrated to [...]
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Gin Shue

On August 8, 2014 By admin
In 1922, when he was 17 years old, Gin Shue inherited $2,000 from his paper father. A year later he used this money to open [...]
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John Young

On August 8, 2014 By admin
John Young was born Yang Jue Yong in Tianjin, China in 1920. However, he spent much of his youth in Japan, where his father was [...]
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Victor Tam

On August 8, 2014 By admin
Exectly 40 years ago, we made the big decisionto left our birth mother(China) and came to our forest mother(United State) with our 2 young kids.the [...]
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Christine Chen

On August 8, 2014 By admin
A Lifetime of Storytelling and Finding My Chinese Self Through Yoga By Christine Chen Each year I vow to relearn the Mandarin I spoke in [...]
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Darian Li

On August 6, 2014 By admin
My name is Darian. I speak a little bit of Chinese. I speak a little of English, and a little of sign language. And I [...]
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Hong Dai Chin

On August 6, 2014 By admin
Chin Hong dai (aka chin lung) was 18 years old when he immigrated to the u.s. in 1881, one year before the Chinese exclusion act [...]
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Gregory Kan

On August 6, 2014 By admin
During the late 1970’s on the Upper West Side, the further you got away from Central Park the more it became like the Wild Wild [...]
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Shana H. Fung

On August 6, 2014 By admin
Growing up in the Bay Area, I never experienced any internal or external conflict about being Chinese-American. I simply was. It was only after leaving [...]
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Sandi Pei

On August 6, 2014 By admin
Sandi Pei, son of world famous architect I.M. Pei, continues the tradition of finely crafted architecture and spirited public spaces. As his father emigrated from [...]
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Melissa Huang

On August 1, 2014 By admin
I was born near Chicago in 1992. I’m half Chinese on my father’s side, with a white English mother. All of my life I knew [...]
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Dian Dong

On August 1, 2014 By admin
My paternal great grandfather was a merchant and arrived in America from Taishan, China, around 1880. Due to exclusion laws, the Chinese in America at [...]
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Brian Chui

On August 1, 2014 By admin
Having grown up and had worked professionally in hong kong prior coming to the states, one hard lesson i had to learn in a hard [...]
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Nina Kuo

On August 1, 2014 By admin
Being Middle class, american -chinese or CHINESE- AMERICAN -sometimes confusing to others but not to most ABC (american born chinese) we are taught to be [...]
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Diane Wu Johnson

On August 1, 2014 By admin
On St. Patrick’s Day we were supposed to wear green in my first grade class. I was the only Chinese student. I wore red. The [...]
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Peter Koo

On August 1, 2014 By admin
Council Member Peter Koo was elected to the New York City Council in November 2009. peter immigrated to America from Hong Kong in 1971. when [...]
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Anna Sui

On August 1, 2014 By admin
Anna Sui’s Favorite Things: Favorite Rock Personalities: Keith Richards, Johnny Thunders, Jack White, Jimmy Page, Bob Dylan Favorite Current band: Black Keys, Dillon, The Cults, [...]
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Rita Tam

On July 31, 2014 By admin
My mom and dad escaped china together during the cultural revolution at the end of the 1960s with the ultimate goal of coming to the [...]
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Emperatriz Ung

On July 31, 2014 By admin
My name is Emperatriz Ung. My Chinese name is 吴帝莲. I am half Colombian, half Chinese. I speak fluent Spanish. My Mandarin is mediocre at [...]
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Mitchel Wu

On July 31, 2014 By admin
My family immigrated to Queens, NYC in 1986. we were a part of the wave that came during the reaganomics era with the beliefs of [...]
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Tan Dun

On July 31, 2014 By admin
The conceptual and multifaceted composer/conductor Tan Dun has made an indelible mark on the world’s music scene with a creative repertoire that spans the boundaries [...]
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Damon Chin

On July 22, 2014 By admin
My great-great grandfather, Quon loy Chin, immigrated from Taishan, Guangdong, China to the United States around 1911, at a time when the Chinese Exclusion Act [...]
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Shirley Yu

On July 22, 2014 By admin
I was born in Beijing in 1994. I came to Brooklyn, NY to live in America with my parents in 1998. We moved to Edison, [...]
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Chihung Yang

On July 22, 2014 By admin
Chihung Yang was born on October 25, 1947 in Taiwan. Between 1965 and 1968, he attended the National Taiwan College of Art. In 1979, he [...]
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You-Xian Feng

On July 22, 2014 By admin
Dr. Feng, You-xian was originally from Shanghai where he studied at the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University in 1964, there, he became Assistant Resident [...]
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David Poon

On July 22, 2014 By admin
In 1968, my uncle David Poon swam from Mainland China to Hong Kong to escape the Cultural Revolution. At the time, the British government welcomed [...]
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Christopher Teh

On July 22, 2014 By admin
My most relevant story regarding the United States began when I was 12 years old in 2003. At the time, a lot of America bashing [...]
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Wing On Lee

On July 22, 2014 By admin
My Father, Wing On “Danny” LeeMy grandfather left his village in Taishan, Southern China before his son was born. He planned to make his fortune [...]
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Fu-Li Yu

On July 18, 2014 By admin
Professor Fu-Li Yu was born in Beijing, China. Although his father, Ling-Ko Yu, and mother, Ying Chang , were originally from the city of Shenyang, [...]
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Winifred Cheng

On July 14, 2014 By admin
In 1937 while my mother was taking a part of the family on a trip in Peking, during summer vacation, the incident of Marco Polo [...]
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Jackson Tan

On July 14, 2014 By admin
Before immigrating to the US, my family immigrated to the Philippines from China in search of new opportunities. I was born in the Philippines and [...]
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William Alexander Huang

On July 14, 2014 By admin
When I first moved to Wisconsin, an adorable child with golden hair once approached me and asked if I was Chinese. I wondered how he [...]
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