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This interview is about a Chinese International student in University of Idaho. She will talk about her personal experiences in China and America.

Reflecting on his life as a Chinese American immigrant

A family interview of the Chinese arrival in Trinidad and thereafter.

Regina and I have a conversation about her coming to America from China and how that affected her education and social life.

Talk about my mother’s life experience and her childhood

This interview was with my Chinese teacher

Mr. Zhou talked about his immigration to China and his experience as a Chinese American.

Trasitioning from a nurse to working in the fashion industry

In this interview, conducted in March of 2020 in Quincy, Massachusetts, Delaney Spinney (18) interviews her boss Dave Chew (80) about his childhood in the city where they both now work. Mr., Chew shares stories about his childhood growing up...

An interview with a Chinese grandparent on his perspective on Chinese historical events that he lived through.

Describes the early good of my fathers life and how it describes the person he is today.

My mother, Penny Lam DeFreitas, talks about immigrating from Hong Kong to America, and what growing up in San Francisco was like in the brand new environment she was thrown in.

Hong talks about some of her life experiences, difficult challenges, and regrets.

Asking dad about his university and also his childhood. Also heard some of grandpa and grandma’s stories.

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Steve Lu recalled his teenage years and how China was like in 1980s, he talked about his feeling about Chinese government and programs that was progressing, and how the society change through out the years. Also, he shared a lot...

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in New Hyde Park ,New York,Sunny Liu (16) interviews his father Yong Hua Liu (82) about his life in both China and America. Yong Hua Liu shares stories about life as a child...

My Mom Came form China to America without knowing anyone or English. She explains her journey of being seen as different and how she learned to Speak up and stay strong.

An interview about my dad’s life in China and the U.S.

Michelle Dong (15) and her mother, Lily Yang, (50) discuss happiness in life due to family and simple things in New Hyde Park, New York. Ms. Yang talks about how her children brought a lot of happiness into her life,...

My father shares some of his stories about immigrating to the U.S., dealing with his father’s passing, his relationship with my mother, and more.

We begin with my mother's childhood, then her career in PR before meeting my father, their relationship, struggles in having Jiming (my brother), as well as me and my younger sister Kelly, and her experience(s) immigrating to the US.

Teenager, Vivian Lee (17) interviews her grandma (74) at their family home in New Jersey, Egg Harbor Township. Her grandma recalls the hardships she faced when she lived in China and how fortunate she was when she came to America....

Melli (54) talks with colleague Scott Acord (59) about her journey into healthcare and the discrimination her bi-racial daughter faces from the community and her family.

I discuss with my dad his upbringing in Shanghai, China during the Cultural Revolution and his first experiences in America as a first-generation immigrant and one of the first Chinese immigrants that immigrated into the US after the reopening of...