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May Chen
from East Wind Magazine Vol. 1 No. 1 (1982)
Subheadings were added to the original publication to make this more readable on the web.
I am an East Coast Chinese American born, raised, and educated in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. I have been living and working in New York City for two and one-half years. However, I had the invaluable and unforgettable experience of living for almost a decade (1970-1979) in Los Angeles California – being part of a dynamic Asian movement, attending graduate school at UCLA, working in the Chinese community, marrying another East Coast Chinese American and having two babies before moving to New York.
Culturally, socially and politically I am a product of the1960's, a '60s person–as we are coming to be called – who attended high school and college during that turbulent decade and became politicized by the massive, anti-war, civil rights, student and women's movements of those times. In'60s lingo there was a slogan, "If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem." Broad consciousness was developed about fundamental problems of the system of U.S. capitalism, of the need for every person to be involved in solving these problems. People who did not or would not get involved were "copping out" or just wanted to work "in the system" – actions which ran against the social and political currents of those times. I first got involved because I was young and everyone was involved in marching, petitioning, teaching and soul searching.
Chen 2 (Meeting the New Asians)
"I am a product of the 1960s . . ."
