2015.008.001 Interview with Alice Eng and Anne Lee November 18, 2000

 

Alice Eng and Anne Lee are sisters who discuss what life was like growing up in New York City in a big family. After living in Brooklyn for the first few years of their lives, their family then moved to China. However they then returned to the United States as refugees and their family then relocated to Midtown. Some of their family members fought in World War II and both women went to graduate high school, get married and become homemakers. In the interview they express their interests in learning and reading when they were young but also how they grew up being told they would only be homemakers. They discuss generational differences between their parents, them and their own children and how they grew up affected their parenting styles.

0:00 - 介绍,出生地,童年社区;20世纪20年代的布鲁克林社区 Introduction, birthplace, childhood neighborhood; Brooklyn in the 1920s

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4:01 - 家庭历史,排华法案的影响,洗衣业 Family history, effects of Exclusion Act, laundry business

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10:07 - 童年记忆,兄弟姐妹,在一个与意大利和黑人混住的社区长大 Childhood memories, siblings, growing up in a mixed neighborhood with Italians and Blacks

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16:05 - 搬回中国求学,文化冲击,因为”排华法“在美国的种族歧视 Moving back to China for education, culture shock, discrimination in the US because of Chinese Exclusion Act

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18:16 - 中日战争,作为难民移民回美国,定居曼哈顿 Sino-Japanese War, immigrated back to the US as refugees and settled in Manhattan

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25:20 - 经济萧条时期的财政问题,补贴收入,男人和女人都不得不工作 Financial problems during the depression, chores to subsidize income, men and women both had to work

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29:13 - 家庭的重要,家庭出游,单身叔叔把他们当作自己的孩子 Importance of family, family outings, bachelor uncles would take them as their own children

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32:43 - 第二次世界大战及其对家庭生活的影响,男人们被征兵入伍,女人们在战争期间工作,支援将士们 World War II and its impact on the family life, males drafted into the military, females working during the war to support soldiers

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41:29 - 夜总会生活,在娱乐界的亚裔们,黄皮肤 Nightclub life, Asians in the entertainment industry, yellowface

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44:51 - 育儿之间的代际差异,给与孩子们的机会 Generational differences between parenting, opportunities given to children

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59:22 - 华裔美国人的身份和认同,阅读和教育的重要性 Chinese American identity and acceptance, importance of reading and education

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63:29 - 去看电影,经济困难 Going to the movies, financial hardships

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66:35 - 作为女性,接受大学教育,对女性接受教育的代际分歧 Obtaining a college education as females, generational disagreements about female education

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