Scope and Contents

This collection includes documents, periodicals, publications, photographs, and artifacts that were collected by Lily Lum Chan related to her community advocacy and organizational work, anti-Communist China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) political activism, her family such as her father Walter U Lum and her husband Stanley Chan, and her personal records and items.

Abstract The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC) and the UCLA Asian Studies Center (AASC) conducted the Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project from 1978 to 1984. They collected 165 oral histories, from which transcripts, summaries, indices, and the book Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women in Los Angeles were made. This collection contains approximately 1700 pages of transcripts and summaries, in English with small amounts...