Oral history interview with Christina Lee
| Oral history interview with Christina Lee | |
|---|---|
| Collection | Cambodian Americans – Oral History of 1.5 Generation |
| Recording type | Oral history |
| Narrator | Christina Lee |
| Subjects | History & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora; Religion & Spiritual Life |
An oral history with Christina Lee recorded for Cambodian Americans – Oral History of 1.5 Generation, the project archived at CamCHAP and housed at the Historical Society of Long Beach. (Historical Society of Long Beach oral histories)
Description
Christina Lee was born in Phnom Penh and was about seven when the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia in 1975. Her family was forced out of the city to live in the jungle and work in labour camps without food or healthcare, and she was orphaned during that time. After the Vietnamese military entered Cambodia she lived for a while in Sisophon with an aunt, travelled with a Christian family to Khao-I-Dang refugee camp and was sponsored to Long Beach. She attended Poly High School, earned a medical degree at the UCI School of Medicine, runs a private practice in Long Beach and later became a pastor after studying at the Claremont School of Theology. (Historical Society of Long Beach oral histories)
Credits
The project page names Christina Lee as the narrator and does not name an interviewer for the individual recording. Pacific Asian Counseling Services recorded the interviews from a mental health perspective, the concept was first developed by Cambodia Town, and funding came from the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health under the Mental Health Services Act. (Historical Society of Long Beach oral histories)
Access
The narrator's profile on the project page carries a Watch Oral History link to the recording on the society's video channel, published at the oral history video. No item number or recording date is published. (Historical Society of Long Beach oral histories) KhmerConnection indexes this material and does not hold or provide access to the recordings.