This project, based at the University of Iowa, will conduct oral history research in three major towns in Iowa, including Ames, Iowa City, and Des Moines to collect the stories and testimony of Chinese nationals and immigrants and exhibit them to the general public.

Project members have already conducted interviews with several Chinese students on the campus and collected their stories fraught with frustrations and sadness. Integrated to the institutional oral history project operated by the University of Iowa Libraries, the team members of this research have collected oral history materials on the campus under the University Archivist of the University of Iowa (UI) David McCartney’s supervision.