Kit
Heritage Archive: Chinese American Family Stories Pack
Culturally Specific Printable Insert Pages
Your family crossed an ocean and rebuilt. Document what they carried.
Chinese American families who want to document their history with guides that account for the specific contexts of the Chinese American experience — the Exclusion Act era, paper son histories, immigration across multiple generations, dialect and language transition, and the particular relationship between American-born and immigrant generations within the same family.
The Name It First Experience
Chinese American family history carries specific documentation complexities — the Chinese Exclusion Act created paper son identities that changed family names, immigration records were destroyed in fires and suppressed by policy, and dialects that connected generations are being lost as families assimilate. This pack provides culturally specific insert pages for the Heritage Archive Kit — interview prompts calibrated to the Chinese American immigration and settlement experience, guidance for tracing paper son lineage, and frameworks for documenting dialect vocabulary and cultural practice before it transitions out of living memory. Grounded in the Chinese Historical Society of America's archival standards and oral history methodology for diaspora communities. The output is your Heritage Archive: Chinese American Family Stories Pack Agreement — a structured archive built around the specific history your family lived.
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Sample questions
- Before we begin, I want to take you somewhere. Think of the kitchen in a home you remember — a grandmother's, an aunt's, your own family's. What was being cooked? What did it smell like?
- Tell me about the person in your family whose story you most want preserved. What do you want the next generation to know about them?
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
$29.99
eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$14.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
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Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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