{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/d21rf5kx6c/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Yuan Shi Oral History"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 1\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi女士来自中国上海，她是1991年移民到美国的，如今是法拉盛“纽约金鹰老人中心”的会员。老人中心每周七天提供各种社交和娱乐活动，还有很多课程，会员可以按照个人兴趣选择参加。席女士特别喜爱绘画和音乐课。中心的工作人员非常友善，地点便利，家庭医生和药房都在附近。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan Shi came from Shanghai, China. She migrated to the US in 1991. Yuan is currently a member at the New York Golden Eagle senior center located in Flushing. The senior center provides various recreational and social activities. The center offers different classes throughout the week and members can join the classes that they have interest in. Yuan particularly likes the painting and music classes. The staff are kind and friendly. The location of the center is convenient, and doctors and pharmacies are all nearby.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 2\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi常去的The Immanuel Church原本位于210-10 Horace Harding Expressway，开车很方便，停车也容易。教会支付的租金是每月600元。由于房东把租金提高到每月1200元，教会不得不另觅新址，最后搬到3601 Bell Blvd，Bayside的the Redeemer Lutheran Church。但该教堂要求教众按照他们的规程进行礼拜，引起教民的不满，于是他们再度搬迁，搬到Oakland Gardens (at 220-16 Union Turnpike)。从前他们约有80人参加周日的礼拜，几次搬迁后只剩下20人。Shi女士说，人数少了，大家反而更紧密了，更像一个大家庭了。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Immanuel Church Yuan attended was located at 210-10 Horace Harding Expressway. It was convenient and easy to find parking. The church had to pay 600$ rent per month at Horace Harding location and it had to move to another location because the landlord raised the rent to 1200$ per month. The church group later moved to the Redeemer Lutheran Church on 3601 Bell Blvd, Bayside, NY 11361 but the church wanted the group to follow their worship format and the group didn’t like that idea. It later moved again to Oakland Gardens (at 220-16 Union Turnpike). There were about 80 people who came to Sunday worship before the relocations, but the church was downsized to 20 as it moved from one location to another. Yuan said that because the church group got smaller, she felt the members of the group became closer like a family.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi说，一开始，她和丈夫在艾姆赫斯特女儿家附近，与另一对年轻的上海夫妇合租了一套公寓，他们住的是一个带阳台的小房间，月租350元。租金不断上涨，到2013年，涨到470元。那对年轻夫妇拼命工作攒钱，2013年6月，他们自己买了房，搬出去了。房东因此要求Shi和丈夫8月底搬出，另寻住处。多年前，Shi就申请了长岛的老人公寓，到此关头，她才接到通知，搬入长岛老妇人公寓。2015年，她和丈夫搬到目前所住的Jamaica Allen AME 老人公寓楼。Shi说，目前这住处比长岛更方便。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan Shi talks about how she and her husband began renting a small room with a balcony in a shared apartment with another young Shanghainese couple in Elmhurst near her daughter’s family. The rent was 350$ in the beginning but later went up to 470$ in 2013. The young Shanghainese couple worked hard and saved up money to purchase their own house in June 2013 and decided to move out. Because of that, the landlord wanted Yuan and her husband to find a place and move out by the end of August 2013. Yuan Shi had applied for senior housing in Long Island a long time ago, and it was during this time in need, she received a notice to move into senior housing in Long Island. Yuan and her husband later moved to her current residence at the Jamaica Allen AME senior housing in 2015. Yuan said that her current location is more convenient than Long Island.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 4\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi所在的教会不时会和Chinese Christian Herald Crusades共同举办社区活动，人数少的教会经常轮流参加这类活动。Shi参加过的活动之一，是法拉盛图书馆外的圣诞颂歌演唱。教会还向民众发放圣诞礼物。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe church that Yuan was a member of sometimes joined the Chinese Christian Herald Crusades in their community outreach activities. Smaller church groups take turns in participating in their worship and outreach activities. One activity Yuan was part of is singing Christmas Carol in front of the Flushing library. The church group also gave out gifts to people as part of the Christmas celebration.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 5\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e1996年6月，Shi在报纸上看到Chinese Christian Herald Crusades 的消息，随即打电话给教会的罗牧师。教会人员让Shi加入他们的音乐组。教会还在Immanuel Church教授中文。当时Immanuel Church和纽约Cho Dae Presbyterian Church教会共用一个地方。Shi的孙女和她一起去机会学中文。再以后，她开始和朋友一起参加教会的周日礼拜。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn June 1996, Yuan saw the Chinese Christian Herald Crusades in the newspaper and called pastor Lo. The staff at the church referred Yuan to joined their music team. The church also taught Chinese at the Immanuel Church, which shared space with the New York Cho Dae Presbyterian Church. Yuan’s granddaughters also came with her to learn Chinese at the church. She later continued her Sunday worship at the church with her friends.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 6\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e席女士喜欢去皇后区的图书馆，她觉得法拉盛馆人越来越多，越来越吵，有时也带着孙女去艾姆赫斯特馆。艾姆赫斯特馆每周二上午九点有儿童故事节目，1999年孙女三岁时，席女士就开始参加了。她希望孙女史蒂芬妮能利用这个机会与老师互动，有助于她的早期教育。自那以后，她也每周带着更小的孙女去图书馆。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan loves going to the library in Queens. She thinks Flushing library has been getting noisier. She also went to the Elmhurst library with her granddaughter. Elmhurst library has children’s story telling session on Tuesday 9am. Yuan began going to the storytelling session with her granddaughter in 1999 when she was three years old. Yuan wanted Stephanie to interact with the teachers since it can help with her early education. After that, she also took her younger granddaughter to the library every week.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 7\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi来自上海，移民美国前是上海同济大学的物理学教授。1982年，她曾作为访问学者，与同事一起组成科研交流小组来过美国。活动是根据中美科技合作协议举办的，由Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and National Science Foundation (NSF)提供资助。那一次，Shi和同事们参观了伯克利加大，科罗拉多大学，夏威夷大学，麻省理工学院，弗罗里达大学以及其他大学和学院，同时也欣赏了美国的各地风光，她对美国的科研力量感到震惊，她也喜欢美国乡村的宁静。鉴于女儿已在纽约留学，她决定移民美国，和女儿团聚，那是在1991年。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan Shi came from Shanghai, China. She was a physics professor at Tongji University before migrating to the US. Yuan began her travel to the United States in 1982 as a visiting scholar with her colleagues as part of visiting scientific research exchange team. The team was a result of a U.S.- China Agreement on Cooperation in Science and Technology agreement funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and National Science Foundation (NSF). During their visit, Yuan and her colleagues visited UC Berkeley, University of Colorado, University of Hawaii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Florida and other colleges in the US. She also had a chance to see the scenery in different states and was also deeply touched by the power of scientific research in America. Yuan also loved the peaceful feeling in America’s countryside. Because her daughter was also studying abroad in New York, she decided to migrate to the US to join her daughter in 1991.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 8\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e席女士回忆说，母亲在为她的三个兄弟缝补衣裳时，嘴里总是哼着歌儿。席女士很喜欢那些歌，向母亲打听是什么歌。母亲告诉她，那些歌都是在一本书里的，等她长大了，一定教给她。但母亲一直没告诉她究竟是什么歌。席女士后来知道，那都是基督教歌曲，母亲说的那本书就是圣经。母亲当时不告诉她，是因为那时候宗教信仰是个很敏感的问题。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan Shi recalls her mother always humming songs while patching and sewing garments for her three brothers. Yuan fell in love with the songs and asked her mother about them. Her mother told her the song came from this big book and promised to teach Yuan when she grows up, but her mother never told her what it was. Yuan later found out the song was a Christian hymn and the book her mother referred to was the bible. Her mother couldn’t tell her back then because religious belief was sensitive in China at that time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi Yuan（Constance）出生在中国的湖北省，1982年，她作为访问学者来到美国，在全美多所大学进行交流活动。她正式移民美国是在1991年，和她在纽约的女儿住在一起。移居美国后，Shi到密苏里读大学，1996年回到纽约，和家人一起生活在皇后区的艾姆赫斯特，不久又和丈夫一起搬到牙买加。在访谈中，她谈到在中国度过的童年及家庭的教育背景，谈到她在华人社区和教会的活动，以及在法拉盛金鹰老人中心的日常生活。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan (Constance) Shi was born in the Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China (PRC), in 1937. She came to the US in 1982 as a visiting scholar at multiple universities across the US. She officially migrated to the US in 1991 and joined her daughter in New York. Yuan recalled her childhood memories in China and spoke about her family background and education. After migrating to the US, Yuan attended college and lived in Missouri before coming back to New York in 1996 and lived with her family in Elmhurst, Queens. She later moved to Jamaica with her husband. In this interview, Yuan described her involvement in the Chinese community and the church groups she joined as well as her daily life at the Golden Eagle Senior center in Flushing.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2016-07-15 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Yuan (Cionstance) Shi (Interviewee)","Yingwen Huang (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1937-2016 (temporal)","China, Missouri and Queens, New York (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["Mandarin Chinese"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 1\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi女士来自中国上海，她是1991年移民到美国的，如今是法拉盛\u0026ldquo;纽约金鹰老人中心\u0026rdquo;的会员。老人中心每周七天提供各种社交和娱乐活动，还有很多课程，会员可以按照个人兴趣选择参加。席女士特别喜爱绘画和音乐课。中心的工作人员非常友善，地点便利，家庭医生和药房都在附近。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan Shi came from Shanghai, China. She migrated to the US in 1991. Yuan is currently a member at the New York Golden Eagle senior center located in Flushing. The senior center provides various recreational and social activities. The center offers different classes throughout the week and members can join the classes that they have interest in. Yuan particularly likes the painting and music classes. The staff are kind and friendly. The location of the center is convenient, and doctors and pharmacies are all nearby.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 2\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi常去的The Immanuel Church原本位于210-10 Horace Harding Expressway，开车很方便，停车也容易。教会支付的租金是每月600元。由于房东把租金提高到每月1200元，教会不得不另觅新址，最后搬到3601 Bell Blvd，Bayside的the Redeemer Lutheran Church。但该教堂要求教众按照他们的规程进行礼拜，引起教民的不满，于是他们再度搬迁，搬到Oakland Gardens (at 220-16 Union Turnpike)。从前他们约有80人参加周日的礼拜，几次搬迁后只剩下20人。Shi女士说，人数少了，大家反而更紧密了，更像一个大家庭了。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Immanuel Church Yuan attended was located at 210-10 Horace Harding Expressway. It was convenient and easy to find parking. The church had to pay 600$ rent per month at Horace Harding location and it had to move to another location because the landlord raised the rent to 1200$ per month. The church group later moved to the Redeemer Lutheran Church on 3601 Bell Blvd, Bayside, NY 11361 but the church wanted the group to follow their worship format and the group didn\u0026rsquo;t like that idea. It later moved again to Oakland Gardens (at 220-16 Union Turnpike). There were about 80 people who came to Sunday worship before the relocations, but the church was downsized to 20 as it moved from one location to another. Yuan said that because the church group got smaller, she felt the members of the group became closer like a family.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi说，一开始，她和丈夫在艾姆赫斯特女儿家附近，与另一对年轻的上海夫妇合租了一套公寓，他们住的是一个带阳台的小房间，月租350元。租金不断上涨，到2013年，涨到470元。那对年轻夫妇拼命工作攒钱，2013年6月，他们自己买了房，搬出去了。房东因此要求Shi和丈夫8月底搬出，另寻住处。多年前，Shi就申请了长岛的老人公寓，到此关头，她才接到通知，搬入长岛老妇人公寓。2015年，她和丈夫搬到目前所住的Jamaica Allen AME 老人公寓楼。Shi说，目前这住处比长岛更方便。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan Shi talks about how she and her husband began renting a small room with a balcony in a shared apartment with another young Shanghainese couple in Elmhurst near her daughter\u0026rsquo;s family. The rent was 350$ in the beginning but later went up to 470$ in 2013. The young Shanghainese couple worked hard and saved up money to purchase their own house in June 2013 and decided to move out. Because of that, the landlord wanted Yuan and her husband to find a place and move out by the end of August 2013. Yuan Shi had applied for senior housing in Long Island a long time ago, and it was during this time in need, she received a notice to move into senior housing in Long Island. Yuan and her husband later moved to her current residence at the Jamaica Allen AME senior housing in 2015. Yuan said that her current location is more convenient than Long Island.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 4\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi所在的教会不时会和Chinese Christian Herald Crusades共同举办社区活动，人数少的教会经常轮流参加这类活动。Shi参加过的活动之一，是法拉盛图书馆外的圣诞颂歌演唱。教会还向民众发放圣诞礼物。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe church that Yuan was a member of sometimes joined the Chinese Christian Herald Crusades in their community outreach activities. Smaller church groups take turns in participating in their worship and outreach activities. One activity Yuan was part of is singing Christmas Carol in front of the Flushing library. The church group also gave out gifts to people as part of the Christmas celebration.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 5\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e1996年6月，Shi在报纸上看到Chinese Christian Herald Crusades 的消息，随即打电话给教会的罗牧师。教会人员让Shi加入他们的音乐组。教会还在Immanuel Church教授中文。当时Immanuel Church和纽约Cho Dae Presbyterian Church教会共用一个地方。Shi的孙女和她一起去机会学中文。再以后，她开始和朋友一起参加教会的周日礼拜。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn June 1996, Yuan saw the Chinese Christian Herald Crusades in the newspaper and called pastor Lo. The staff at the church referred Yuan to joined their music team. The church also taught Chinese at the Immanuel Church, which shared space with the New York Cho Dae Presbyterian Church. Yuan\u0026rsquo;s granddaughters also came with her to learn Chinese at the church. She later continued her Sunday worship at the church with her friends.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 6\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e席女士喜欢去皇后区的图书馆，她觉得法拉盛馆人越来越多，越来越吵，有时也带着孙女去艾姆赫斯特馆。艾姆赫斯特馆每周二上午九点有儿童故事节目，1999年孙女三岁时，席女士就开始参加了。她希望孙女史蒂芬妮能利用这个机会与老师互动，有助于她的早期教育。自那以后，她也每周带着更小的孙女去图书馆。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan loves going to the library in Queens. She thinks Flushing library has been getting noisier. She also went to the Elmhurst library with her granddaughter. Elmhurst library has children\u0026rsquo;s story telling session on Tuesday 9am. Yuan began going to the storytelling session with her granddaughter in 1999 when she was three years old. Yuan wanted Stephanie to interact with the teachers since it can help with her early education. After that, she also took her younger granddaughter to the library every week.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 7\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShi来自上海，移民美国前是上海同济大学的物理学教授。1982年，她曾作为访问学者，与同事一起组成科研交流小组来过美国。活动是根据中美科技合作协议举办的，由Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and National Science Foundation (NSF)提供资助。那一次，Shi和同事们参观了伯克利加大，科罗拉多大学，夏威夷大学，麻省理工学院，弗罗里达大学以及其他大学和学院，同时也欣赏了美国的各地风光，她对美国的科研力量感到震惊，她也喜欢美国乡村的宁静。鉴于女儿已在纽约留学，她决定移民美国，和女儿团聚，那是在1991年。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYuan Shi came from Shanghai, China. She was a physics professor at Tongji University before migrating to the US. Yuan began her travel to the United States in 1982 as a visiting scholar with her colleagues as part of visiting scientific research exchange team. The team was a result of a U.S.- China Agreement on Cooperation in Science and Technology agreement funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and National Science Foundation (NSF). During their visit, Yuan and her colleagues visited UC Berkeley, University of Colorado, University of Hawaii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Florida and other colleges in the US. She also had a chance to see the scenery in different states and was also deeply touched by the power of scientific research in America. Yuan also loved the peaceful feeling in America\u0026rsquo;s countryside. 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