The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and the UCLA Asian Studies Center initiated the Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project in September 1978. The project collected oral histories from 165 Chinese residents who discussed their lives in Los Angeles up to 1945. The collection consists of 400 hours of taped interviews, over 1700 pages of summaries and indices, an appendix with the user's guide sample sheets, and descriptions of the cumulative index. Also includes interview transcripts. The transcripts are in Chinese, mainly Cantonese dialects, with English translations.

The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and the UCLA Asian Studies Center initiated the Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project in September 1978; the project collected oral histories from 165 Chinese residents who discussed their lives in Los Angeles up to 1945; most of the interviewees were over 60 years of age and were either native-born Americans or immigrant residents in Los Angeles before 1940; selected interviews were conducted in other Southern California communities to provide a comparative perspective to the Los Angeles experience.

3.5 linear feet (7 boxes and 45 oversize shoeboxes)

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