Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter

Fall Quarter 2001, Volume 11, No. 1

Recent Gifts

Mitchell Bonner: Ephemeral materials and newspaper clippings (mainly from the San Francisco Chronicle) concerning the San Francisco Bay area Southeast Asian communities; articles "Raw footage," (Tenderloin video project) by Bernice Yeung, SF Weekly, July 18-24, 2001; "Living on Pacific Time, (Nguyen Qui Duc) by Heidi Benson, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, August 19, 2001; "Toxic Avengers," by Belinda Griswold, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 15-21, 1998; AsianWeek, February-May, July-August 2001.

Diep "Zoe" Bui: A copy of her 1999 video, I am Viet Hung, Vietnamese hero.

Chu Tat Tien: His 2000 publications: The legend of boat people, and Sau 25 nam, nhin lai Viet Nam de tim phuong huong tai thiet dat nuoc.

Dr. Chris Collett: Viet Mercury, (nos. 118-124, April 27-June 8, 2001); Thoi Luan Xuan Tan Ty 2001; Moi, (no. 454, Jan. 16, 1998); Van Hoi Moi Chao Xuan Mau Dan 1998; Nguoi Viet Giai Pham Tan Ty 2001; Phunu Xuan 2000; Tuoi Tre Xuan 2000; Thanh Nien Xuan 2000; Phap Luat, Tet 2000.

Duc Tri Que Anh: Poetry and stories: Thien nhien thi cam, Thien nhien cuong niem, and Dao si va cong co=The ascetic and the leaf of grass.

Robert R. Jones III: Issues 1-10 (July 27-September 24, 2001) of Viet Tide; Mimi News, September 2001.

Thao Le: Publications from the Asian Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center, National Council on Crime and Delinquency: Not invisible: Asian Pacific Islander juvenile arrests in Alameda county, and Not invisible: Asian Pacific Islander juvenile arrests in San Francisco County, 2001.

Dr. Van Le: Four titles available from the Southeast Asian Culture and Education Foundation, Huntington Beach: The tanh cua thi ca, by Le Tuyen (2000); Dac San Lai Giang: Tan ty 2001; Dong Viet so 6,7,8,9; Dai Hoc Su-Pham Hue, tap 1 (2000); Dai Hoc Van-Khoa Sai-Gon, tap 1-3 (1999-2000); periodicals including issues of Context, Refugee Reports, Indochina Interchange, and materials relating to NAFEA, Aid to Children Without Parents and bilingual education.

Cathy Ann Lu: Her paper, Services for new American users: Indochinese students' behavior in using academic libraries. Presented at the ACRL 10^th national conference, March 15-18, 2001, Denver. Available online at: www.ala.org/acrl/proaindex01. html.

Nguyen Ngoc Bich: Radiologs and cassette recordings of Radio Free Asia broadcasts, April-June 2000.

Hien Thi Nguyen: Her paper: Knotted hair and heavy spirit root: Becoming a medium in Vietnamese spirit possession, presented at "Viet Nam Beyond the Frontiers" conference at UCLA, May 11-12, 2001.

Khuong Nguyen: Hoa Sen (no.43, April 15, 2001); Nguyen San Giac Ngo (nos.60-63, March-June 2001); Tuan Bao Giac Ngo (nos. 57-74, Feb. 28-June 27, 2001).

Mai Nguyen: Her book of short stories, Thoang giay hanh phuc, 2001.

Nguyen Huynh Mai: Her book, Len duong, 2001.

Dr. Melissa J. Pashigian: Her paper, The globalization of (new) reproductive technologies: Daily practice and local interpretations of infertility treatments in Northern Viet Nam, presented at "Viet Nam: Beyond the Frontiers" conference at UCLA, May 11-12, 2001.

Thy Pech: 2001 edition of Proleung Khmer; materials relating to C-HOPE, Cambodian New Year and dance party flyers.

Southeast Asian Resource Action Center: A copy of: The role of the refugee program: The next decade: Summary of the 2000 National Symposium, Office of Refugee Resettlement, August 6-8,2000, Arlington, VA. Available online at: www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/orr.

Dr. To Thi Dien: Her book, Vietnamese in action, with accompanying tapes, 1999.

Professor Angie Tran: Three of her articles: "Global substracting and women workers in comparative perspective." In C. Brundenius & J. Weeks, eds. Globalization and Third World Socialism (pp. 217-236). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001; "Through the eye of the needle: Vietnamese textile and garment industries rejoining the global economy." Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 10:2 (1996); "Cautious reformers and fence-breakers: Vietnam's economic transition in comparative perspective." (with David Smith) Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 24:1-2 (1998).

Dr. Bich H. Tran: Poetry by Ngo Minh Hang, Du-am (1998), Goi dan (1998), Tieng long (1996), and Tran Quoc Binh, Tuoi nam muoi (2000); Triet ly chap sinh Nguyen Cong Tru, by Vu Dinh Trac (1988); Vietnamese and English versions of Rev. Peter Dinh Ngoc Que experiences, Hoi ky mot linh muc trong tu cong san, 1975-1988=Memoirs of a priest imprisoned in the communist re-education camp, 1975-1988 (2000).

Daniel Tsang: Viet Mercury, nos. 125-127, June 15-29, 2001).

Van Nghe Publishers: Their 2001 publications: Ghi, 1954-1960, by Tran Dan; Doi thoai, by Vinh Phuc; Loi Phat day=Dhammapada=Buddha's teachings, by Dinh Si Tran.

Vietnam California Radio: VNCR yearbook, 2001-2002= Ky yeu mua he 2001-2002.

Professor Linda Vo: Ve nguon, Hoi Sinh Vien Viet Naïm, UC San Diego, 1992; Ky yeu, Hoi Ban Nguoi Cui Viet Nam 2001; Dac San He '91, Vietnamese American Parents & Teachers Association, San Diego, awards & recognition night; photos of Religious Freedom for Vietnam rally; photo of first UCI "Vietnamese American women" class, winter quarter 2001.

Yale University Press: Its 1996 publication:An anthology of Vietnamese poems from the eleventh through the twentieth centuries. Edited & translated by Huynh Sanh Thong.

Hach Yasumura: Article from Sacramento Bee (February 27, 2001) on Cambodian American high school basketball player, Sak Sopheak.

Sincere thanks to all our donors and our apologies to anyone who inadvertently has not been acknowledged here. Your support of the Southeast Asian Archive is truly appreciated.

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Southeast Asian Archive Fall Quarter Hours

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Paul Tran's Gift

During the summer the Southeast Asian Archive was delighted to receive a generous gift of materials from a long-time donor, Paul Tran. Mr. Tran's gift includes a variety of formats and covers a number of subjects. Part of the collection includes letters, audio and video tapes from Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong's Whitehead Detention Center protesting repatriation to Vietnam. This part of the collection is restricted until 2041 out of concern for the safety of individuals sent back to Vietnam. Mr. Tran's gift also contains unrestricted materials related to human rights and Vietnamese refugees, art work from the refugee camps, books and periodicals, materials concerning the Vietnamese community in Orange County (including Voice of Vietnamese Radio program recordings, correspondence, articles, and ephemera). The collection also contains video and audio interviews conducted in 1990 with Vietnamese students and workers in Czechoslovakia.

Mr. Tran's first donation to the Archive was in 1989. His gifts have been a primary source of the Archive's extensive collection of post-1975 Vietnamese language periodicals. A finding aid to other materials he has donated, Guide to the Paul Tran Collection on Overseas Vietnamese Advocacy Activities, is available on the web at: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ dynaweb/ead/uci/.

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Little Saigon Clean-Up

Saturday, November 17
Contact Newton Hoang, vac@uci.edu

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Archival Finding Aids Online

Finding aids for three processed Southeast Asian Archive archival collections are now available on the Online Archive of California at: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/uci/, The three collections are: Joseph M. Carrier collection on the Chieu Hoi Program and Vietnamese Conflict, 1958-1992; Paul Tran Collection on Overseas Vietnamese Advocacy Activities, and the Kim Ha Papers. Thanks to Bill Landis, Adrian Turner, and Lynette Stoudt from the Library's Special Collections Department for making this possible.

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AsianAm Class Project

Part of the requirements for Linda Vo's "Southeast Asian American Experience" class last spring was to design a project that would promote or display the SEA Archive in order to understand what it means to collect, research, display, and preserve community histories. Working in groups, the students undertook a number of creative projects: Cosme Perez and Khanh Nguyen planned a brochure, Daisy Lok and Tram Tran worked on a slide show, Kearly Chhour and Nam Ly made a poster display, Michael Nailat scanned photographs for display on the Archive's web page, Phuong Nguyen and Susie Le collected materials from the Vietnamese community, Vy Ta designed a postcard, Sok Rim collected materials and made a videotape, with written commentary, of Cambodian dances. These projects have contributed new ideas and materials to the Archive, and also given students first-hand experience in documenting local communities. Thanks Linda! Professor Vo will offer the "Southeast Asian American Experience" class (AsianAm 151H) again in winter quarter 2002.

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Fall Quarter 2001 Southeast Asian/American classes

• AsianAm 151D : Vietnamese American Experience Tues, 6:00-8:50, HH 262, Pham
• History 179B: War in Vietnam, Tues-Thurs, 11:00- 12:20, HH 105, Wheeler
• Vietnamese 1A: Fundamentals of Vietnamese, M-F, 8:00, 9:00, CS149, T. Tran; 10:00, CS249, M. Tran
• Vietnamese 2A: Intermediate Vietnamese, M-F, 10:00, CS 249, T. Tran; 1:00, SSL 122, M.Tran
• Vietnamese 3A: Advanced Vietnamese, MWF, 9:00-9:50, HH 251, M. Tran
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New Southeast Asian Faculty at UCI

It is a pleasure to announce that Charles Wheeler has joined the UCI History Department as an assistant professor of Southeast Asian history. Professor Wheeler received his Ph.D from Yale University last May, and B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Washington at Seattle. His dissertation, Hoi An, 1600-1858: Maritime societies, cross-cultural trade and trans-regional networks in the creation of a southern Vietnamese region, revises the theories of Vietnamese overland expansion southward by examining the role of maritime trade in the formation of the southern Vietnamese region. This quarter he is teaching "War in Vietnam" (Hist. 179B) and in winter quarter will offer "Nationalism in Vietnam" as a History 190 seminar, which will extend into spring quarter as a History 192 writing course.

Minh Tam Tran has joined the East Asian Languages and Literature Department as a lecturer in Vietnamese. She received a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Hue. In Vietnam she taught Vietnamese to American volunteer teachers and to business people from abroad. At UCI she is teaching beginning and intermediate Vietnamese, as well as the new class of Advanced Vietnamese, offered at UCI for the first time this fall.

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UCI Southeast Asian Student Groups

Cambodian Student Organization (CSO):
Meets Wednesdays, 5:00-6:30 PM, HH 118. Chair: Sotheary Moeung (949) 387-1096, ucicso@egroups.com.

Hmong Student Association:
Meets Thursdays, 7:00 PM, Campus Village TV Room. Contact: Mang Yang, (949) 725-3438; mangy@uci.edu.

Laotian-Thai Cultural Club (LTCC):
Meets Mondays, 5:00 PM, Cross-Cultural Center. Contact: David Karschamroon, (949) 735-2284; dkarscha@uci.edu; http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/ltcc.

Mustard Seeds (Hat Cai):
Meets Mondays, 7:00-9:00 PM, Interfaith Trailer. Contact: Duc Pham, hatcai@juno.com; (949) 737-0506.

Vietnamese American Coalition (VAC):
Meets Thursdays, 7:00 PM, HH 143. Contact: Newton Hoang, (714) 658-1091; vac@uci.edu; www.sowku.com/vac.

Vietnamese Student Association (VSA):
Meets Thursdays, 6:00 PM, Emerald Bay A. ontact: Anh-Hong Thi Nguyen, (714) 832-8371; vsa@uci.edu; www.vsauci.com/

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Winter Quarter 2002 Southeast Asian/American classes

• AsianAm 151H Southeast Asian American Experience, Tues.-Thurs., 9:30-10:50, Vo
• AsianAm 155 Vietnamese American Women, Tues.-Thurs., 11:00-12:20, Vo
• Hist. 190I Nationalism in Vietnam, Thurs., 3:00-5:50, Wheeler

Vietnamese language classes continue in winter and spring quarters

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"Spirit of Vietnam" Exhibit

A joint exhibit of bronze and ceramic works from the Dong Son culture, along with the Ly and Tran dynasty has opened at the Saddleback College Gallery and Orange Coast College's Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibit will take place October 18-December 6.

The Saddleback College Gallery is located at 28000 Marguerite Parkway, Mission Viejo. Hours are Monday-Wednesday, 12:00-4:00 PM and Thursday evening, 4:00-8:00 PM. Orange Coast College's Fine Arts Gallery is located at 2701 Fairview, Costa Mesa. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 11:00-3:00, Thursday 7:00-8:30 PM. Call (949) 582-4924 for information.

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The Review of Vietnamese Studies

Volume 1:1 of the Vietnamese Studies Internet Resource Centre's Review of Vietnamese Studies is now available at http://vstudies.org/. Contents of this first issue are: "Diversity and diaspora:, Vietnamese Adopted as children by non-Asian families," by Indigo A. Williams; "Goodbye Saigon,"by Darlene Nguyen Ely; L'expression du temps et de l'aspect du verbe Vietnamien, by Minh Ha Lo-Cicero; "U.S. census 2000: A overview of national and regional trends in Vietnamese residential distribution," by Mark Pfeifer; "Public and private shelves: A study of Vietnamese make and female exile novelists," by Nguyen Thi Mai Thuy; "Between heaven and earth: Le Ly Hayslip's epic spiritual journey in Child of war, Woman of peace," by C. M Pauza; and "Pro-aesthetic feminist connection: A Chicana reading of Nguyen Thi Am's Sleeping on earth," by Edith M. Vasquez.

Submissions are now being accepted for Volume 2 with a deadline of December 31. Send by e-mail attachment to editor Mark E. Pfeifer, Ph.D, vstudies@yahoo.com. Include a list of references cited as well as a biographical statement. Dr. Pfeifer also may be contacted by phone at (651) 917-9937. Monday-Friday, 10:00-6:00 (Central Time).

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Satjadham Lao Literary Project

The Satjadham Lao Literary Project (www.satjadjam .net) is calling for submissions of poetry, prose, or artwork for inclusion in a proposed memorial book to benefit the surviving family of Mr. Thung Phetakoune and to support anti-racist programs. Mr. Phetakoune was murdered in a hate crime last summer in Newmarket , NH. The 62 year old Mr. Phetakoune was a military veteran who assisted American Lao anti-communist forces during the war in Laos.

Works that honor Mr. Phetakoune's memory, address the war in Laos, the experiences of Southeast Asians in America, and/or what can be done to combat racism are welcome. Pieces should be relatively concise and accessible in terms of clarity and meaning. Send submissions by November 1, 2001 to: Adisack Nhouyvanisvong, Phetakoune Project Submissions, 508 Broadway St., NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413 or by e-mail to Phetakoune@satjadham.net.

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New Book

The Last Battle: The Mayaquez incident and the end of the Vietnam War, by Ralph Wetterhahn (Carroll and Graft, 2001) chronicles the last battle of the Vietnam War and the fate of the last three American casual- ties. UCI ML Stacks call number is E865 W48 2001.

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Selected Recent Acquisitions

Cong Huyen Ton Nu Nha Trang and Pensinger, William L. (1994). The moon of Hoa Binh: A novel. Bangkok: Foundation Autopoy.Contains three story lines in a long (1700 pages) complex novel set mainly in Vietnam during the war.

Greer, Colleen R. (1998). Ethnicity……… ... it just won't go away: The resilience of ethnicity through practices of assimilation: Lao refugees in a Midwest community.Ph. D dissertation, University of Kansas.
GN495.6 G74 1998a Southeast Asian Archive
A fifteen month ethnographic study which examines community practices of assimilation and how these practices affect the forms and practices of ethnicity.

Kennedy, Wayne A. (2000). Religious imagery at the Khmer Pagoda of Canada: The significance of images for education. M.A. thesis, Concordia University.
BQ5115 C2 K46 2000a
Examines art in Buddhist temples through interviews and observation and how these images play an important educational role in preserving Cambodian culture and Buddhist teachings.

Lee, Sai Quon. (1999). Ethnic conflict, social distance and trait attribution perspectives within four Southeast Asian ethnic groups in the United States. Ph.D dissertation, California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno.
E184 A1 L44 1999a Southeast Asian Archive
Using the Bogardus Social Distance scale, Cambodians, Hmong, Laotians and Vietnamese are tested as to how they view socially Whites , Hispanics, African Americans, as well as themselves.

Lo, Fungchatou (Laotou) T. (2000). The promised land: Socioeconomic adjustment of the Hmong in Milwaukee. Ph.D dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
E184 H55 L6 2000a Southeast Asian Archive
Uses an ethnographic approach to study the adaptation of Hmong refugees to life in the United States. Compares the Hmong experience with that of Cuban and Laotian refugees.

Orr, Elisabeth E. (1999). Living along the fault line: Community, suburbia, and multiethnicity in Garden Grove and Westminster, California, 1900-1995. Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University.
F870 A1 O78 1999a Southeast Asian Archive
Based partly on analysis of oral history interviews, this dissertation contains considerable information on the early development of the Little Saigon area.

Roth, Moira. (2001). Obdurate history: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, photography, and memory. Art Journal 60(2), 38-53.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Discusses the work of Vietnamese American artist Dinh Q. Le and his piece, "Mot Coi Di Ve," which is a large story-quilt comprised of old photographs and texts in English, French, Vietnamese and Chinese. Included copies of e-mail correspondence with the artist.

Tou Ger Xiong. (1999). [videorecording). Roseville, MN: Multicultural Multicool.
PN1969 C65 T68 1999 Southeast Asian Archive
Hmong comedianTou Ger Xiong combines traditional folklore, rap music, bilingual stories in a one-man stand-up routine.

Uehara, Edwina S. (2001). Understanding the dynamics of illness and help-seeking: Event-structure analysis and a Cambodian-American narrative of "Spirit Invasion". Social Science and Medicine 52, 519-536. (Available online through ScienceDirect)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Uses event structure analysis and its computer analog, ETHNO to analyze the help-seeking behavior and interactions of a Cambodian American family concerning the psychological difficulties of the mother of the family.

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