{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/m901z42j8d/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Betty Wei 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\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eInterview with Betty Peh-Tʻi Wei, a Historian and Author who came the U.S. from China at age 16 because of her father’s work for the United Nations. She was also the first Asian student to study at the Chapin School, and went to Bryn Mawr \u0026amp; NYU. This interview focuses on her early experiences as a teenager in the United States, and her time in Parkway Village, a garden apartment complex built for United Nations employees and delegates in Queens, many of whom had faced racial discrimination when they sought housing in other areas. She also discusses her nuclear physicist father Hsioh-Ren Wei’s work for the UN.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBetty Wei: (13:48)\u003cbr\u003e“But being in Parkway Village, I think my parents did a lot of entertaining. Because we were large. We were a large number of people. There was eight of us. The apartment was too small. So we took two. We did take the very, from the very first building - that's - it's Union Turnpike and what I was saying it was, and the, so the girls and I would be trusted to be in a separate apartment from our parents. But I remember there, and I don't remember that being neighborly with anybody except people next door at all. Except my parents had a large number of American friends who are back in New York from China - so they came a great deal at the time. And I remember the first Thanksgiving we had there. And we had a couple of surgeons and my mother somehow knew how to bake roast Turkey. She had never even boiled water before she left China, but she knew how to make turkey. So she roasted the turkey, but nobody knew how to cut it. I remember my mother saying to the surgeons, how, what happened to your professional training, if you can cut up people and not even cut up the turkey. So they try to convince my mother that the anatomy of a turkey and anatomy of a human being - another thing.”\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto: Betty with her daughter Katharine and husband Richard Liu at Christmas, 2017.\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":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/search/browse/45790"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2020-12-01 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Betty Wei (Interviewee)","Meral Agish (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1947-2020 (temporal)","Parkway Village, Briarwood, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eInterview with Betty Peh-Tʻi Wei, a Historian and Author who came the U.S. from China at age 16 because of her father\u0026rsquo;s work for the United Nations. 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We did take the very, from the very first building - that's - it's Union Turnpike and what I was saying it was, and the, so the girls and I would be trusted to be in a separate apartment from our parents. But I remember there, and I don't remember that being neighborly with anybody except people next door at all. Except my parents had a large number of American friends who are back in New York from China - so they came a great deal at the time. And I remember the first Thanksgiving we had there. And we had a couple of surgeons and my mother somehow knew how to bake roast Turkey. She had never even boiled water before she left China, but she knew how to make turkey. So she roasted the turkey, but nobody knew how to cut it. I remember my mother saying to the surgeons, how, what happened to your professional training, if you can cut up people and not even cut up the turkey. So they try to convince my mother that the anatomy of a turkey and anatomy of a human being - another thing.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto: Betty with her daughter Katharine and husband Richard Liu at Christmas, 2017.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA\u0026nbsp;Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Queens Public Library"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Queens Public Library"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/120/328/small/IMG_3208_%282%29.JPG?1627466575","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46932/file/120328","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - BettyWei_final_radio_edit.mp3"]},"duration":2989.632,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/120/328/small/IMG_3208_%282%29.JPG?1627466575","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46932/file/120328/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46932/file/120328/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-queenslibrary.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/120/328/original/BettyWei_final_radio_edit.mp3?1627466444","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2989.632,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46932/file/120328","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}