Museum of Chinese in America

Lamgen Leon, a Chinese man from the Dominican Republic, talks about the circumstances that led to his grandfather to the Dominican Republic. Eventually his grandfather sent for his father, who was a teacher in Hoyping. He then recounts his childhood in the town of Azua with his 7 siblings. Being one of the few Chinese families in the city not many Chinese holidays were celebrated. He discusses his parents desire that he only date Chinese or Chinese Dominican Girls. He continues to talk about how at the age of 9 he was sent to Hong Kong to study and learn Chinese. He returned to the Dominican Republic nearly a decade later and finished high school before moving to New York for college. Then finally in the second half of the interview he talks about how he met his wife Lillian, who worked in a jewelry store in New York. He discusses his choice of school and he eventually came to work at the Chinatown History Project.