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Interview with Sinmin and Betty Wu
Wu, Sinmin
Asian Americans -- Minnesota.
Sinmin Wu was born June 1, 1931, in the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China. Betty Wu (Yun Aur) was born December 15, 1938, in the city of Tianjin, in Hebei Province. Both left China for Taiwan during the Communist Revolution in the 1940s. They were…
AV1981_361_4_1_A_Normalized.mp3
Interview with Sen and Helen Fan
Fan, Sen
Asian Americans -- Minnesota.
Sen Fan was born in 1927 in Haimen, a rural village in Jiangsu Province, near Shanghai. He was about ten years old when the Japanese invaded China, and his father died during the Sino-Japanese War. After the war he went to Shanghai for about a year, and…
AV1981_361_11_1_A_Normalized.mp3

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