Stories
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+ By Benjamin Bours on 20 May 2008
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+ By ellen chu on 19 May 2008
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+ By Benjamin Bours on 16 May 2008
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+ The Dragon Wears Running Shoes By leland wong on 12 May 2008
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+ college By xin zhi zhu on 12 May 2008
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+ mom and her sisters By ellen chu on 07 May 2008
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+ By xin zhi zhu on 07 May 2008
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+ Ice on the sidewalk By Sam Krueger on 29 Apr 2008
I was five when I arrived to the United States. That year during my first winter, I slipped on ice while playing in front of my paternal grandparents’ apartment in Connecticut. I was lucky I...
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+ Growing up in Chinatown By Robert Wu on 28 Mar 2008
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+ I am an American-born Chinese. By on 05 Mar 2008
I am an American-born Chinese. A child of immigrants who met in the States. My parents have always tried to instill some bit of Chinese pride within me. I was made to watch the latest videos from Ho...
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+ Just Life By Lu Zeng on 03 Jan 2008
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+ A Family's Struggles By Donna Chiu on 24 Nov 2007
My most vivid memories about being Chinese in America was when my family and I first immigrated to New York when I was 5 years old. The first year after my parents, my older sister and I arrived at...
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+ Transplanted By Salina Lai on 23 Nov 2007
I was a piece of Hong Kong, extracted from my home land, and grafted onto one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Queens. It was 1993. My family envisioned a communist-run Hong Kong after the 97 Ha...
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+ Cross-coastal By Marilla Li on 16 Nov 2007
Photo: 爸 and his class smile in front of 天安门 square, where 毛泽东’s portrait hangs to this very day (爸 is the thick-browed, glaring one on the left).
It would be three y...
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+ The apartment in Flushing By David Zhou on 16 Nov 2007
My dad came first to the US as an architecture student studying at NYIT in the early 80s. He bought a small place over in Woodside (I think) where he stayed for a while to ...
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+ Brownie By Anna Xiaorong on 07 Nov 2007
(written by Anna’s adoptive mother, Beckett)
Hello, my name is Anna Xiaorong. My place of birth is Changdu, Hunan, China. I became an American Citizen at the age of 1 year after be...
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+ US Citizens By Hao Li on 30 Oct 2007
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 ren...
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+ Arrival in United States By Sam Wong on 30 Oct 2007
Names of people in photo: Sam Wong, Tony Wong, and Ken Wong
The attached photo was taken on May 30, 1980 in the Sea-Tac Airport terminal in Seattle, Washington. It was our first day arri...
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+ Living American By Martha Ma on 30 Oct 2007
Growing up in Flushing, Queens
This was the last photograph of the entire family taken in Seoul, Korea, before coming to the United States…this portrait marks the second major migrat...
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+ Ode to My Chinese Grandmother By Helen Chu-Lapiroff on 30 Oct 2007
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 evid...
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+ Jennifer Yee By Jennifer Yee on 30 Oct 2007
Robert (my grandfather) arrived 1938, Wai Lan (my grandmother) joined him 1950.
They were from the Toisan province, but both came to the US via Hong Kong and Vancouver to settle in McKees ...
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+ Grandparents By Cecile Chong on 30 Oct 2007
I was born in Ecuador in 1964. My grandparents along with their five children went back to China in 1948. They had their sixth child in China. After the arrival of Communism no one was allowed to le...
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+ Ecuador By Cecile Chong on 30 Oct 2007
Two years after this photo was taken, my sister Romy and I spent five years in Macao. When we came back to Ecuador in 1979, the monument in the photo had been replaced by a new one that was 10 times...
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+ Davina Wan By Davina Wan on 30 Oct 2007
Names of people in photo: From Left to Right: My younger sibling, Marina Ng; My mother Tsui Mai Lee; My father Kwok Chak Ng; and myself, Choi Lin Wan. Description: This picture was taken in New Yor...
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+ Hunt Family: First Portrait as Officially Recognized Family and U.S. Citizen By Chris Hunt on 30 Oct 2007
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+ My ABC Daughter By P.W. Anderson on 30 Oct 2007
Part 1: Thanksgiving
When I was a little girl, the toughest holiday for me was Thanksgiving. Holidays were confusing times for my family. Most American holidays are Christian holidays, or ...
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+ Li-Huey Chang's First Snow By Bruce Lai on 30 Oct 2007
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...
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