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it's been going to see inside you know the whole or like sounds that mean oh i see you live we'll come down because that could come on a whole bunch of long island bombing a young looking to to take a yeah i saw joe isuzu the juices and no and i was
born in it have been in something you believe in lucky for me i was the physical only in the sixties were orphaned the moment the wobble of the toss them down the whale or the family time i come in china go for it this week and then there was barely thirty when i found out that
i really was released group for someone else i was taking care of my brother's one day when i came and said it's time for you to get dressed you're going to her husband's house now it was so indeed think it was like eight and i think why you're dubbed unions changes whereby you can you intend to the captors to face they're prisoners in private what you know and told me what the banks to feel like all i remember was being towed in beating all my screenings that i should always listen and obey my husband and was he right
and i had to face that touches of the total stranger that you don't want then each wasn't so bad for my husband was quite sweet consider it i was pregnant in two months of the law taught me to cook and so it was the wow i can teach her how to read a few weeks i had learned from my two years of schooling that our honeymoon basically short lived a japanese war in china with slowly creeping towards the city as i was told and continue with the tradition of going to america to support the family who was just starting to get close to him and i really didn't want to separate from him firsthand do i make no fuss because that was the way it was to be
married into a cold mountain family they were privileges that they would disadvantage is to use that to find money for the family that was that i gave birth to our faith on the neighbors along the midwife just forced her hand is actually improving mount i wanted my husband phil much dan i remember going to the campaigns did i cause you i was the envy of everyone
has never sausage these people an election and a goldmine to me it wasn't long before my husband was drafted into the army it was fighting for america and europe a village was destroyed and it lost killed by the japanese on my own night skate with my baby to my parents' village i stayed there for the next five years finally the fighting ended i have been detained but with it is getting plant we must remarried is all our son i had to become a war cry so that we could go to america started new life of duty witte it resisted at the age eighty one told me that this was sigourney weaver the family together started america in order to escape the chaos of tone
as for our son we were forced to leave behind with my parents it was only to be a temporary situation but how do you explain this to an eight year old child i was very excited about it to be sure yes our families
she was his eyes only it was difficult life in america began with a pretty good start it was easy finding jobs i haven't found one critically as sewing machine became quite close companion list to morrison's followed it has to record the times when i have one foot on the pedal and another on an improvised rock was sent to sleep while the other with tight to my back many times i would accidentally so what i think is that of the
fabric because when chop sui vote because i was fourteen to speak on the job when they we had a family picture taken and send it back to our set wavy china we loved our american children but we never felt like a complete fantasy so we head off a sense portrayed plugged into the picture and that was as close as we could get to be a whole family that are detained long use our face and finally came to america from the governor the confession program where i was able to correct my force eighty status a couple of pride than everything began to open up the price we saved enough money to buy our own house in chinatown and khartoum now the league speaks to it was to get my parents and brothers and their families to america
i was giving the i don't care what people say a lot of her family in which marries but she doesn't know the family that raised her no matter what the sides the race by some to have to get involved here the face and he had to overcome with a decision to change think a nineteen when the task it was to memorize english the hartley by combining chinese ways to make appropriate investments don't ask me how but i did it is said that that path is just wiped out clutter away in my mind with peace again after that the families
divide in america one by one the last sitcom where my parents because they wanted to make sure that no one with that kind of three generations to get there had passed and while that goal deferred fittest adults go and went straight to uc berkeley graduating with a degree in engineering it was instantaneous i lived it louis ck
the celebration i was a soldier still the many years of hard labor finally paid off everybody's here you can take care of themselves that really has changed not having to put aside some money for china or for the kids sometimes we tried to spend some of his bike traveling that it's kind of empty without children they have their own lives to live now i don't claim to understand or approve of everything they do
podcasting in a country that northern areas now what's exciting to me now all i wanted to get a house full of lazy grandchildren don't ask me why haven't the selling women he's been it is
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Series
Silk Screen
Episode
Sewing Women
Contributing Organization
Center for Asian American Media (San Francisco, California)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/520-g15t728d4g
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Description
Episode Description
Based on the life of Zem Ping Dong (and other oral histories) this documentary provides a glimpse of the life of a Chinese seamstress working in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chinatown is the subject of this intimate and poignant film which traces her immigration to America, her family life, and her experiences as a first-generation Chinese woman in America.
Broadcast Date
1982-00-00
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Documentary
Rights
1982 Arthur Dong
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:14:45
Credits
Director: Dong, Arthur E.
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Center for Asian American Media
Identifier: 00005 (CAAM)
Format: U-matic
Color: B&W
Duration: 00:14:45
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Citations
Chicago: “Silk Screen; Sewing Women,” 1982-00-00, Center for Asian American Media, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 29, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-520-g15t728d4g.
MLA: “Silk Screen; Sewing Women.” 1982-00-00. Center for Asian American Media, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 29, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-520-g15t728d4g>.
APA: Silk Screen; Sewing Women. Boston, MA: Center for Asian American Media, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-520-g15t728d4g