• I Am an American-Born Chinese (2007)

  – I am an American-born Chinese. A child of immigrants who met in the States. My parents have always tried to instill a bit of Chinese pride within me. I was made to watch the TV shows from Hong Kong. Th ... Read more Tags: american-born parade

• Li-Huey Chang's First Snow (1967)

  The attached photo was taken in December 1967, in Seattle, Washington, at the rooming house for students attending the University of Washington. My father was in a Ph.D program at the University of Was ... Read more Tags: snow seattle taiwan

• Hunt Family: First Portrait as Officially Recognized Family and U.S. Citizen (2008)

  Like 55,000+ other children born in China, Vivian became a U.S. citizen at 13 months of age and moved to the U.S. with her adoptive family. Read more Tags: family portrait

• Ode to My Chinese Grandmother (1949)

  10013 new york – In America, she was present in body, but never in spirit. Through her fantastic stories of having stowed away in a boat to reach America in the wake of the Communist Revolution, it was only too evident ... Read more

• Escape to America (1980)

  seattle washington – I am a Cambodian-born ethnic Chinese descendant. My grand-mother and parent left Dongguan, Guangdong in the late 1930, fleeing from famine and the Japanese invasion of China. They never imagine that ... Read more

• When I First Felt American (2007)

  washington dc – My mother and I had become US citizens nine years ago in 1998. I remember pledging allegiance under the American flag for the first time in the immigration office. I questioned if I was ready to renoun ... Read more

• Finding a Home (1970)

  New York, NY – I came to America at the age of 17 as the oldest child in 1970. I have four younger siblings who I helped raised. My father was already in America and he finally got the approval to sponsor us to come. ... Read more

• My Heritage (2007)

  Astoria, NY – I was born in the West Village of New York City to a father who was born in Pennsylvania to Chinese immigrants, and a mother who immigrated to the United States from Kowloon, Hong Kong, at the age of 7 ... Read more

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