• An Attempt to Understand My Family History (2005) by Jessica Guh

  Palo Alto, CA – I was born in a suburb of Connecticut. My parents were immigrants from Taiwan who came to states for graduate school. Throughout my life I've vacillated between being very comfortable as a Chinese Am ... Read more

• Angel Island Immigration Station Postcard (1998) by D. L. W.

  sarasota, fl – Hopes and Dreams. Exclusion and detention. This is our American story. Turning down the radio for fear of becoming deaf like my father. Tracing the path of my face with pencil, shading in where I star ... Read more Tags: angel island

• My Immigration Story (1984) by Lawrence Lam

  – I left Hong Kong in 1984 to join my parents in New York. It was the biggest investment in my life! I was having a good time in pre-China very sophisticated and materialistic Hong Kong….shared an ap ... Read more

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

  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

• Sticky Rice for Thanksgiving (1975) by Margaret Chen Wong

  philidelphia pennsylvania – When I was a child my family owned a Chinese restaurant. This meant my parents working sometimes more than twelve hours a day, seven days a week, no vacations or holidays, except for Thanksgiving. My f ... Read more Tags: chinese thanksgiving sticky rice

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