Contributor record · Wave 1, July to August 2026
Contributor CA-02
Chinese-Canadian; childhood in a county town in China, professional life in Canada. Interviewed for 26 minutes (Recorded video interview, Mandarin; rating card completed on the project's digital form). Favorite color: Blue, since childhood. Deep-dive colors this session: Red, Pink, Blue.
Dublin Core record
- Identifier
- CTP-CA-02
- Title
- Interview with contributor CA-02
- Type
- Oral-history interview with rating card
- Creator
- Chloe Chen, interviewer and curator
- Contributor
- CA-02; attribution to be confirmed in writing
- Date
- Wave 1, July to August 2026
- Language
- cmn (Mandarin); eng (English)
- Format
- Recorded video interview, Mandarin; 26 min
- Coverage
- Chinese-Canadian; childhood in a county town in China, professional life in Canada
- Subject
- Color meaning; deep dive: Red, Pink, Blue
- Relation
- Color records GCMD-001 to GCMD-006; wave 1 dataset
- Rights
- Record text CC BY 4.0; consent given on the recording
- Access
- Public tier: this record. Private tier: name key, recording, card scan, transcript
First associations
Quick-fire round| Red | passionate |
| Blue | tranquil |
| Green | nature |
| Yellow | vitality |
| Black | not captured cleanly on the recording |
| Pink | lovely |
In their words
From the recordingIf I wore a pink blazer to a meeting, people took me for a junior. My words carried less weight. Sometimes the point I had just made would be picked up by someone else and delivered to the manager as theirs.On pink, translated from the recording
Pale pink gets you overlooked. A strong Barbie pink makes people remember you: full of life, full of presence.On pink, translated from the recording
My grandfather lived in the mountains. At harvest the big straw baskets wore a large red character for luck, sharp against the yellow straw. For that generation red meant harvest: food on the table, money in hand, the family together.On red, translated from the recording
Worker blue meant you held a job and were doing well. My grandfather's deep blue bicycle was a status symbol in that era.On blue, translated from the recording
Sayings contributed
Romanized, with literal translationNone volunteered in this session.
On color in film
The curator's own questionWinnie the Pooh: a soft, comfortable yellow bear in a small red shirt, a life she would like her own to resemble.
Generational note
Would the grandparents answer differently?The richest generational testimony of the wave: harvest red on straw baskets, worker blue as employment and standing, rationed rubber-soled shoes, a deep blue bicycle as village status.
Luck, taboo, belief
Custom versus convictionGold lucky, and the gold Canadian hundred dollar bill with it; red envelopes make red lucky; purple is her school's color and she wears it with pride. White and black carry the funeral reading, and she believes none of it: colors are what people assign to them.
Rating card
Five scales, six colors| Color | Like to dislike | Calm to energetic | Traditional to modern | Positive to negative | Strength of cultural meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red | 3† | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Blue | 1† | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Green | 3† | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Yellow | 3† | 7 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Black | 7† | 6 | 7 | 1 | 7 |
| Pink | 7† | 6 | 7 | 1 | 7 |
- Red Q1: normalized from the reversed form scale
- Blue Q1: normalized from the reversed form scale
- Green Q1: normalized from the reversed form scale
- Yellow Q1: normalized from the reversed form scale
- Black Q1: normalized from the reversed form scale
- Pink Q1: normalized from the reversed form scale
Her form displayed the like scale with the poles reversed; raw Q1 values were 5, 7, 5, 5, 1, 1 and are normalized here as 8 minus raw so that 1 means like across the whole dataset. Q2 to Q5 matched the standard orientation.
Cite this interview
Stable ID CTP-CA-02Contributor CA-02, interview by Chloe Chen, July to August 2026 (CTP-CA-02). The Color Testimony Project, wave 1, Global Color Meaning Database (Suse), 2026. Accessed [date]. https://globalcolormeaning.org/fieldwork/ca-02.html.
The identifier CTP-CA-02 is permanent. The citation form follows the oral-history practice documented on the standards page; the exact date of the session is held in the private log and can be supplied to a researcher on request.
Quotes are transcribed from the recording, translated into English by the curator, and lightly cleaned for readability; the original-language transcript is held in the private tier. Short form: Contributor CA-02, interview, summer 2026. The contributor's name and consent record live in the private log, not in this archive.