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Finding Aid for the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project,
1978-1991
1688
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Title: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project
Date (inclusive): 1978-1991
Collection number: 1688
Creator:
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Extent:
7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)
45 oversize shoe boxes
Abstract: The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and the UCLA Asian Studies Center initiated the Southern California
Chinese American Oral History Project in September 1978. The project collected oral histories from 165 Chinese residents who
discussed their lives in Los Angeles up to 1945. The collection consists of 400 hours of taped interviews, over 1700 pages
of summaries and indices, an appendix with the user's guide sample sheets, and descriptions of the cumulative index. Also
includes interview transcripts. The transcripts are in Chinese, mainly Cantonese dialects, with English translations.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Original tapes restricted. Use duplicate copies only.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Original master tapes not available for consultation.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Chinese American Historical Society of Southern California, 1991.
[Identification of item], Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Southern California Chinese American Oral History
Project (Collection Number 1688). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and the UCLA Asian Studies Center initiated the Southern California
Chinese American Oral History Project in September 1978; the project collected oral histories from 165 Chinese residents who
discussed their lives in Los Angeles up to 1945; most of the interviewees were over 60 years of age and were either native-born
Americans or immigrant residents in Los Angeles before 1940; selected interviews were conducted in other Southern California
communities to provide a comparative perspective to the Los Angeles experience.
Collection consists of materials related to the Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project. The collection
includes 400 hours of taped interviews, over 1700 pages of summaries and indices, an appendix with the user's guide sample
sheets, and descriptions of the cumulative index. Also includes interview transcripts. The transcripts are in Chinese, mainly
Cantonese dialects, with English translations.
Materials in this collection are primarily in English, with some in Chinese.
Arranged in the following series:
- Listening (duplicate) copies of tapes (boxes 1-20)
- Summaries and indices (boxes 21-24) - Copies of these are available at the Reference Desk (7 bound volumes).
- Chinese transcripts (boxes 25-26)
- English translations of transcripts (box 27)
- Original tapes (boxes 28-52). (RESTRICTED)
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California--Archives.
Chinese Americans--California, Southern--Interviews.
Audiotapes.
Transcripts.
Oral histories.
Southern California Chinese American oral history project, 1978- / Chinese American Historical Society of Southern California.
Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, 1982.