0:00 - Introduction, childhood and family background, her family moving from China, learning about her family history, her mother working in a garment factory.
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5:59 - Spending time with her cousins, her average day on Saturdays and going to Chinese school, the area she sees as Chinatown while growing up, going to restaurants and around Chinatown with her family.
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13:37 - Starting at PS 124, activities she participated in in elementary school, her classmates in elementary school, being in the gifted class, American born versus non-American born students, her autograph book.
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21:04 - Discussion of her autograph book and the significance behind it, living concentrated in Chinatown, what she wanted to accomplish in elementary school, the jobs that her classmates aspired to have, the possibility of living somewhere other than Chinatown.
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30:47 - Going to middle school, having freedom while growing up, the activities she participated in, her mom not finishing school, various job options.
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37:59 - Starting high school and joining the committee against anti Asian violence, reasoning for joining CCAV and Chinatown youth initiatives groups, using her Cantonese to help immigrants, seeing Chinatown change and new businesses opening, learning about coding and computer science.
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48:31 - Being a student at Harvard, learning to love New York even more, how Chinatown is changing and gentrification, the area she grew up in not feeling like Chinatown anymore but still feeling connected to the area.
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58:10 - Areas in Chinatown that she hopes will stay the same, the importance of affordable housing in Chinatown, not knowing the future of Chinatown as it changes so much.
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71:06 - Discussion of her fifth grade autograph book, her daily routine in elementary school, not many business changing on Division street, the 25th anniversary celebration at their elementary school, what she wrote in the autograph book.
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80:46 - Documentation that she believes belongs in a community archive, the TVB video rental store on Grand street, not needing video tapes anymore, discussion of other Interviewees and conclusion of interview.
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