Interview with Charlie Yi Zhang, July 3, 2018
Project: Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project
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Charlie Yi Zhang shares his childhood and education in China, and his journey to eventually moving to the United States for his PhD. Zhang discusses gender, sexual and racial norms in China and compares them to the United States. Zhang also discusses his experience of those norms as a gay Chinese man.Interview Accession
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Childhood China China--Cultural policy China--Foreign relations China--History China--Politics and government China--Social conditions China--Social life and customs China--Social policy College students--Social conditions Coming out (Sexual orientation) Education Education, Higher Gay men--Identity Gays--Identity Gender studies Homosexuality Sexual minorities Sexual minorities Sexual minorities--Identity Sexual orientation Stereotypes (Social psychology) Teachers Teaching Families Universities and collegesInterview Rights
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Zhang, Charlie Yi Interview by Adriana Sisko. 03 Jul. 2018. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Zhang, C.Y. (2018, July 03). Interview by A. Sisko. Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Zhang, Charlie Yi, interview by Adriana Sisko. July 03, 2018, Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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