• "I Am an American-Born Chinese" by Edward Cheng (2007)

  – 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 Hong ... 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 adoption

• "Comfortable" by Davina Wan (1970)

  – 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

• "Ode to My Chinese Grandmother" by Helen Chu-Lapiroff (2007)

  Brooklyn, 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 Tags: new york chinese grandmother

• "An Immigrant Tragedy" by Katie Wong (1926)

  – I am sending in an ID of my grandfather-in-law (called Fal Lum Bin 火連柄, named after the fire held by the statue of liberty in the ID) who entered the United States in 1926 after he married his wi ... Read more Tags: san

• "Chinese Determination" by Martha Ma (1974)

  Queens, NY – I am from a family of immigrants. My grandparents on both sides immigrated from Shandong, China to Korea where both my parents were born: my mom in the north and my dad in the south. During the Korea ... Read more

• "My ABC Daughter" by Pamela Wang Anderson (2007)

  Indianapolis, IN – Thanksgiving When I was a little girl, the toughest holiday for me was Thanksgiving. It was because of Thanksgiving that I knew my family wasn’t normal. School, the source of socia ... Read more

• "Return to Ecuador" by Cecile Chong (1970)

  Ecuador – 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 leave ... Read more Tags: communism ecuador macao

• "When I Felt American" by Hao Li (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

• "An Unknown Destination" by Sam Wong (1980)

  Seattle, WA – 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 imagined that ... Read more

• "Where Are You From?" by Hui Liang (2009)

  – One thing that always lets me know New York is my real home is when people ask me where I am from. I never quite knew what to say. I would say “Manhattan, Chinatown,” and they would say “No, like ... Read more Tags: new york

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