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Immigrant Stories is a research and archiving project run by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. Immigrant Stories helps immigrants, refugees, and their family members create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience.
\n\nThis project defines \"immigrant\" broadly. Our collection contains digital stories from people living outside their country of birth as well as stories created by their children and grandchildren. Immigrant Stories also welcomes stories from international students, international adoptees, and people who do not feel that their stories fit a particular, or just one, category. All stories are important, and we invite you to make a video and share yours with us.
", "title": "Crystal Young", "title_s": "Crystal Young", "title_t": "Crystal Young", "title_search": "Crystal Young", "title_sort": "crystalyoung", "description": "Crystal Young was born and lived in Lijiang, Yunnan province, China. She was a well-known singer there who owned her own bar. Her second husband was a U.S. military officer whom she married in 1995. They moved to Seattle, Washington. She was later joined there by her oldest daughter. Crystal works with the Seattle Ensemble of Songs and Dances.", "date_created": [ "2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20" ], "date_created_sort": "2015", "creator": [ "Young, Crystal", "You, Xiao" ], "creator_ss": [ "Young, Crystal", "You, Xiao" ], "creator_sort": "youngcrystalyouxiao", "notes": "Created as a final project by Xiao You for Hist 3862: American Immigration History at the University of Minnesota. The course was taught by Dr. Erika Lee in spring 2015.", "types": [ "Moving Image" ], "format": [ "Oral histories | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595" ], "format_name": [ "Oral histories" ], "dimensions": "0:03:22", "subject": [ "Origin China", "Ethnicity Nakhi" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin China", "Ethnicity Nakhi" ], "language": [ "English" ], "city": [ "Seattle" ], "state": [ "Washington" ], "country": [ "United States" ], "continent": [ "North America" ], "parent_collection": "Immigrant Stories; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories", "parent_collection_name": "Immigrant Stories", "contributing_organization": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name_s": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contact_information": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center. 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc", "fiscal_sponsor": "This work is made possible through the generous funding of the Digital Public Library of America Digital Hubs Pilot, which is supported by the Digital Public Library of America with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.", "local_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0046" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0046" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "Crystal Young Transcription\nMy aunt Crystal came to US in 1995. She was original came from Yunnan China. Her hometown was Lijiang. Lijiang is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan province in China. Lijiang is famous because of the Old Town. The Lijiang Old Town is famous for its orderly system of waterways and bridges.\nMy aunt owned a bar in Old Town of Lijiang. The world famous Old Town of Lijiang is a UNESCO Heritage Site. It also was where she met her husband. My aunt Crystal was a famous singer in her hometown. She also sung in her own bar. Her husband fell in love with her because of her beautiful voice.\nMy aunt Crystal is the Nakhi people that are an ethnic group inhabiting the foothills of Himalayas in the northwest part of China. I am a Nakhi people too.\nMy aunt Crystal met her husband at Lijiang in 1993. She married my uncle Ben in 1995. My uncle Ben was an American colonel. My uncle Ben was my aunt’s second husband. My uncle was from Seattle, Washington. Since my aunt married my uncle, she came to U.S. with her husband. They settled down in a small county in Seattle. Now, they have lived in Seattle for 20 years.\nHer eldest daughter moved to Seattle 10 years ago. Now, her eldest daughter Cindy has graduated from Seattle community college, and she works for an accounting firm in Seattle. Cindy recently married her husband, who is a Chinese that immigrated to U.S. They had their little girl, Taylor, in 1998. Taylor now is a high school student in Seattle.\nCrystal got her green card 19 years ago. Now, she came back to China once 5 years. My aunt said she doesn't want to be a citizen of America because she goes back home frequently, and she doesn't want to apply for China visa. Now, my uncle Ben has retired from military. And my aunt works for Seattle Ensemble of Songs and Dances as a singer. Their mission is to promote Chinese indigenous culture and arts overseas. So, she has many shows in one year, and she is enjoying it. 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