Journal
My Chinese (American) Family Stories
A Heritage Journal for Preserving the Names, Places, and Stories Before They Fade
The names, the places, the stories — they do not keep themselves.
For the Someone from a Chinese or Chinese American family who wants to preserve names, places, and stories before the people who hold them are gone.
The Name It First Experience
Your family carried its history across distance and time. Some of it came through in stories. Some in habits and recipes. Some in things no one has fully explained. This journal is built to help you record what you know, ask what you have been meaning to ask, and preserve the pieces that matter most — in whatever language feels right. My Chinese (American) Family Stories is a record of where your family came from, in your own words.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What is the Chinese American family story that most needs to be written down — the one your household carries but that hasn't been documented?
- What did your family carry from China — or from building a life in America — that the next generation needs to know?
- What do you want the next generation to understand about your family's Chinese American story — the immigration, the identity, the specific things your household preserved?
Research basis
Louie (Chinese American identity formation) / Tuan (second-generation Asian American identity) / Zhou & Lee (Asian American achievement paradox) / Phinney (ethnic identity development) / Hall (cultural identity theory)
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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