Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter

Fall Quarter 2002, Volume 12, No. 1

Recent Gifts

• Caverlee Cary:
  Three worlds according to King Ruang: A Thai Buddhist cosmology. Translated, with introduction & notes by Frank E. Reynolds & Mani B. Reynolds, Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series 4, 1982.
• Carol Chai: Fourteen Vietnamese language titles on Buddhism; two sets of Vietnamese language audio cassettes of commentary by the Dalai Lama.
• Do Dinh Tuan: Ninety-nine issues of Vietnamese language periodicals published by overseas Vietnamese, 1975-1990, selected to show the evolution of communities over time and in different locations.
• Nam Q. Ha: His senior thesis: Business and politics in Little Saigon, California, Rice University, 2002.
• Robert R. Jones III: Ephemeral materials, including programs, flyers for recent Vietnamese American cultural events; Orange County Vietnamese American political campaign materials; materials on the Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation; materials relating to the Cambodian community in Long Beach & Rithy Panh Film Festival at CSULB; Huong Di, no. 2 (Summer 2002).
• Ysa Le: Program and video recording of the cinema symposium, "In Front of and Behind the Lens: A Showcase of Vietnamese American Filmmaking," sponsored by the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) & the Vietnamese Language & Culture (VNLC) student organization at UCLA, April 21, 2002; video recording and compact disc of the documentary film about Pham Duy, Nguoi Tinh Gia (The old lover); copies of Tuyen Tap Le Dinh Dieu, 2001.
• Anne Lee: Communist party power in Kampuchea (Cambodia): Documents and discussion, compiled & edited,with an introduction by Timothy Michael Carney. Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1977.
• Quyen Lu: Her senior thesis, composed of an essay and scrapbook: The perceptions and receptions of Vietnamese Amerasians, 2002, California State University, Northridge.
• Minh-Vien: His bilingual book of poetry, Em hoa thanh trang=You're transformed into the moon, and compact disc of his poetry set to music.
• Judy Nguyen: Cassette tape recording of her Voice of America show broadcast to Vietnam on August 16, 2002, which includes a report on the Southeast Asian Archive, based on interviews with Anne Frank, Quan Tran, and Professor Linda Vo.
• Khuong X. Nguyen: Vietnamese Buddhist periodicals: Nguyet San Giac Ngo, nos. 71-77 (February-August 2002); Tuan Bao Giac Ngo, nos. 110-136 (March-September 2002).
• Nguyen Ngoc Bich: Radiologs and cassette recordings of Radio Free Asia broadcasts, February-July 2001.
• Tri Nguyen: Two books: A history of Cambodia, by David Chandler , 1993; A time for war: the United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975, by Robert D. Schulzinger, 1997.
• Nhu-Ngoc T. Ong: Video and compact disc recordings of the August 2002 Vietnamese Information Center's (VIC) Vietnamese Diasporas Forum I; video recording of Little Saigon's 2002 April 30 commemoration in the 99 Ranch Supermarket mall.
• Kim-Dzung Pham: Three books: Sai Gon namxua, by Vöong Hong Sen, 2000; Tim ve ban sac van hoa Viet Nam, by Tran Ngoc Them, 2001; Truyen thong ton su trong dao, by Hoa Van An, 2001.
• Yukiko Tabusa: Japanese language materials concerning Vietnamese refugees, including her article, "Language education policy in California and the integration of immigrants: An analysis of linguistic aspects of Vietnamese Americans" (in Japanese with an English summary).
• Thy Pech: C-HOPE Quarterly, vol. 1:1; Myths, legends and folk tales from the Hmong of Laos, 3nd ed., 1992.
• Southeast Asian Action Resource Center (SEARAC): Eight additional boxes of materials on Southeast Asian refugees
• Dr. Yer J. Thao: His Ph.D. dissertation, The voices of Mong elders: Living, knowing, teaching, and learning within an oral tradition, Claremont Graduate University, 2002.
• Tran Ngoc Dung: His bilingual publications on Vietnamese idioms and proverbs. Ta ve ta tam ao ta = To swim in our own pond, (1998); Thanh ngu tieng Viet = Vietnamese idioms, (2000); and vol. 1 of The history of the Catholic Church in Vietnam, by Phan Phat Huon, CSSR, (2000).
• Trinh Y Thu: Doi nhe khon kham, his Vietnamese translation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable lightness of being, (2002).
• Daniel C. Tsang: His article, Vietnam today: Interview with Ngo Vinh Long, Critical Asian Studies 34:3 (2002), 459-464.
• Van Nghe Publishers: Their 2002 publications: Nhat ky An Loc, Nguyen Van Qui; Noi chuyen voi Hoang Xuan Han & Ta Trong Hiep, Thuy Khe; Vietnamese engaged Buddhism: The struggle movement of 1963-1966, Pham Van Minh.
• Alex Vang: Copies of HM:Hmong Movement, no. 2 (Spring 2002); program for the Hmong Student Inter-Collegiate Coalition(HSICC) meeting at UCI, September 2002; "Orphans of History," Sacramento Bee special series on the Hmong, September 10-12 & December 31, 2000.
• Professor Linda Trinh Vo: 1992-1994 issues of Indochina Interchange; six postcards of Viet Nam; program from the Pham Duy lifetime achievement event in May, 2002.

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LSTA Grant

I am delighted to announce that the Southeast Asian Archive has received a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant for fiscal year 2002-2003. LSTA is a federal grant program adminis- tered by the State Librarian. The $65,540 award will be used to process thirteen archival collections focused on Southeast Asian refugee communities in California. Finding aids for the processed collections will be searchable in the Online Archive of California (OAC) as well as by records in the online Antpac and Melvyl catalogs.

The thirteen collections that will be processed are: California Refugee Forums Records, 1988-2001; Orange County Social Services Refugee Resettlement Agency (OCSSA) Records, 1982-1990; Van Leâ Papers, 1975-1999; Gayle Morrison Papers, 1975-1990s; The Government of Free Vietnam materials, 1995-1999; Ly Kien Truc Photographs of the Hi-Tek Demonstrations 1999; Southeast Asian Genetics Program (SEAGP), 1984-1991; Mitchell I. Bonner Papers & Photographs, 1975-1990s; Paul Tran Papers, 1986-1998; Brigitte Marshall Papers, 1980s- 1990s; Robert Walsh collection on Southeast Asian Education, 1975-2001; Ephemera and Periodicals Collection, 1970s-2002. Parts of these collections include materials focused on the refugee camps in Asia, included because of the high percentage of these refugees who have settled in California. Also, many of the activists who worked in the camps and developed these collections are California citizens who continued their advocacy work in California, which is also documented.

We currently are recruiting for a Southeast Asian Archive Project Archivist. This is a one-year appointment in the Librarian Series at the Assistant or Associate rank. The position description is listed on the UCI Libraries website at: http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/jobs/libvac.html. Applications received by November 11 will receive first consideration, but applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled.

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SEA Archive Advisory Board

The Advisory Board was established in 1994 to support growth of the collection and promotion of the outreach efforts of the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive. Members who recently have joined the Board are Professor Linda Vo, Asian American Studies Department, Professor Charles Wheeler, History Department, Ms. Jeanette Pham, librarian at Santa Ana Public Library, and Mr. Robert R. Jones III, former State Department officer in Vietnam and presently affiliated with St. Anselm's Cross Cultural Community Center. They join Board members Ms. Mariam Beevi, Professor Jeffrey Brody , Mr. Yen Do (Chair), Ms. Jackie Dooley, Professor Ketu H. Katrak, Dr. Van Le, Mr. Heat Chheng Leao, Mr. Peter Nguyen, Professor Phaïm Cao Duong, Mr. Prany Sananikone, and Mr. Thanong Sithisombath.

Sincere thanks to retiring Board members Dr. Huan D. Le and Ms. Angela Yang for their longtime support of the Southeast Asian Archive.

UCI Southeast Asian Student Groups

• Cambodian Student Organization (CS0):
  Meets Wednesdays, 6:00 PM, HH 156. http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/cambo
• Hmong Student Association:
  Meets biweekly on Mondays, 6:00 PM, 450 Stanford Court.
  Contact: Leng Xiong, (949) 387-0830; hsa_at_uci@yahoo.com.
• Mustard Seeds (Vietnamese Catholic Youth Group):
  Contact: Thuy Nguyen, (714) 396-7373; tpnguyen@uci.edu.
• Vietnamese American Coalition at UC Irvine (VAC):
  Contact: Ricky Nguyen, (949) 548-3325; vac@uci.edu; Meets Tuesdays, 7:00 PM.
  http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/vac
• Vietnamese Student Association (VSA):
  Meets Thursdays, 7:30 PM, Monarch Bay A.
  Contact: Chamreum Thach, (714)350-0749; cabinet@vsauci.com;
  http://www.vsauci.com

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Vietnamese Information Center

The Vietnamese Information Center (VIC), a non-profit organization, supports scholarly interests in Vietnamese issues and serves as a clearinghouse for information about Vietnam and about Vietnamese people overseas. The Center strives to deepen the Vietnamese people's commitment to pro-democracy values such as the freedoms of information, speech and press; qualities essential to building and preserving a democratic society.

The Center is looking for interns to assist and participate in activities such as research projects, organizing forums, conferences, and fund-raising events; public relations, managing information systems, translation projects, review and analysis of current news and literature. For further information contact VIC at P.O. Box 4794, Garden Grove, CA 92842-4794, 714/999-5076; VNInfoCenter@aol.com.

Hmong Studies Journal

The Hmong Studies Journal, http://members.aol.com/hmongstudies/hsj.html, invites article submissions for its Spring 2003 issue. Deadline is January 15, 2003.

The Hmong Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed Internet-based academic publication devoted to the scholarly discussion of Hmong history, culture, people, and other facets of the Hmong experience in the U.S., Asia, and around the world.

Hmong Studies-related articles from all disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives are welcome. Articles for submission should be sent on diskette or by e-mail attachment to Dr. Mark E. Pfeifer, Director, Hmong Resource Centre, Hmong Cultural Center, 995 University Ave., Suite 214, St. Paul, MN 55104, hmongcultural@yahoo.com; or to Anne Frank, Southeast Asian Archive, UC Irvine Libraries, P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557, afrank@uci.edu.

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Unsettled: Southeast Asians in America

Photos and visual art work are being sought for an upcoming anthology, Unsettled: Southeast Asians in America. Please submit samples by November 10.

Contrary to the assimilation and reconciliation narratives that dominated the literature on Southeast Asian refugee narratives throughout the 1990s, a deeper examination of refugee life in the United States reveals a complex array of culture and politics. This anthology seeks to tell these unruly stories, particularly among a generation of Southeast Asians who came of age in the United States over the past two decades. Themes include: War and Displace-ment; Poor and Colored in America; Detention and Deportation: Southeast Asians and the New State Violence; Cultures of Resistance. Please submit samples of photos and art work as PDF to Tram Nguyen at tnguyen@arc.org; or mail to Tram Nguyen, 3781 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94606.

For more information contact Tram or Eric Tang at etang@caaav.org

Review of Vietnamese Studies

The Vietnamese Studies Internet Resource Center (www.vstudies.org) is pleased to announce the publication of the 2002 issue of the online Review of Vietnamese Studies

Contents of the 2002 issue: Pilgrimage of the spirit: Connecting with my ancestors, by Jonathan Lee; Between two cultures: Struggles of Vietnamese American adolescents, by Peter Van Do; Vietnam: Cultural Background for ESL/EFL teachers, by Tuong Hung Nguyen; Vietnamese foster grandparents, by Lyndon Drew; Vietnamese expatriates and Vietnam: Challenges and opportunities, by Le Xuan Khoa. All articles are available in both HTML and PDF file formats.

HM: Hmong Movement

HM:Hmong Movement provides a forum where socio-cultural, political, & educational issues can be discussed and where individuals can share and ex- change experiences through fiction or non-fiction writing &/or poetry. The fall 2002 issue: One drop, one ripple, imagine a thousand" is available online: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HSIC_/files/HM%20Publication/HM_Fall2002.pdf

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Southeast Asian/American Classes (Winter Quarter 2003)

• AsianAm 151H - SEA American Experience
  Tu/Th, 9:30-10:50, SSPA 1165.
  L. Vo
• AsianAm 165 - Vietnamese American Women
  Tu/Th, 2:00-3:20, SSPA, 1165.
  L. Vo.
• History 190F - War and Memory: Vietnam
  Wed. 11:00-12:30, HICF 100D.
  C. Wheeler
• Vietnamese 1B - Fundamentals of Vietnamese
  M-F, 8:00, 9:00, 2:00
  T. Tran, M. T. Tran & D.N. Tran
• Vietnamese 2B - Intermediate Vietnamese
  M-F, 8:00, 10:00
  T. Tran & M.T. Tran
• Vietnamese 3B - Advanced Vietnamese
  M-Th, time undecided.
  D.N. Tran

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Selected Recent Acquisitions

• Barker, Judith C. & Saechao, Kaochoy. (2000). A demographic survey of Iu-Mien in West Coast States of the U.S., 1993. Journal of Immigrant Health, 2:1, 31-42. Journal Articles and Book Chapters File 1993 data on the size and composition of the Iu-Mien population in Washington, Oregon, and California.
• Bui, Ngoc H. (2000). "Who are these people, anyway?" Variations in ethnic identity within an immigrant population. In Esther Mikyung Ghymn, (Ed.). Asian American studies; Identity, images, issues past and present. (pp. 113-131). New York: Peter Lang. Journal Articles and Book Chapters File Discusses various ethnic identity patterns among Vietnamese American students in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• Chung, Rita Chi-Ying & Bemak, Fred. (2002). Revisiting the California Southeast Asian Mental Health Needs Assessment data: An examination of refugee ethnic and gender differences. Journal of Counseling & Development, 80: 111-119. Journal Articles and Book Chapters File Shows that Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese refugee women reported a significantly higher degree of psychological distress than males. Also analyzes gender differences within and between the separate Southeast Asian groups.
• Hu, Jun. (2000). Under the knife: Medical noncompliance" in Hmong immigrants. Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University. RA448.5 H6 H8 2000a Southeast Asian Archive Medical and anthropological investigation with research conducted in Central California, 1996-1998. Provides a "Minority Healthcare Model."
• Kinzie, J. David, et al. (2002). The effects of September 11 on traumatized refugees: Reactivation of Postraumatic Stress Disorder. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 190:7, 437-441. Journal Articles and Book Chapters File Surveyed Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Bosnian, and Somalian refugees on secondary traumatization.
• Leâ, Phaïm Thuùy-Kim & Nguyeãn, Kim-Oanh, (2001). Chuùng ta noùi...Conversational Vietnamese: An intermediate text. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. PL4375 L39 2001 Southeast Asian Archive Incorporates many features of the communicative/ interactive approach to language learning, covering speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.
• Nontapattarnadul, Kitipat. (2002). The integration of Laotian refugees in Calgary. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Calgary. F1080 L27 N66 2000a Southeast Asian Archive Focuses on interviews with five Laotian couples who had lived in Calgary from 12 to 19 years and who were satisfied with their life in Canada. Found that ethnic identification was high but that there was a weak relationship with the dominant society.
• Vietnamese Americans: Lessons in American history: An interdisciplinary curriculum and resource guide. (2001). Garden Grove, CA: Vietnamese American Curriculum Project Committee, Orange County Asian & Pacific Islander Community Alliance. E184 V53 V542 2001 Southeast Asian Archive The first Vietnamese American curriculum created for grades 7-12. Available from OCAPICA, 12900 Garden Grove Blvd, Suite 214A, Garden Grove, CA 92843; 714/636-9095; ndtt@ocapica.org.
• Vong, Nilrith. (2001). Understanding Cambodian teenage marriage and developing a community support system. Ed.D. dissertation, Fielding Graduate Institute. Cataloging in Process Research based on in-depth interviews with married teenagers and their parents in Lowell, Massachusetts. Findings challenge views expressed in the media.
• Suab Hmoob. Vol. 2 (2001-2002). Uncataloged Newsletter of the Hmong Students Association (HSA) of California State University, Stanislaus.
• Wong, Yutian. (2001). Choreographing Asian America: Club O'Noodles and other mis-acts. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Riverside. GV1786 C58 W66 2001a SE Asian Archive A "performative auto/ethnography" that studies contemporary Asian American dance theater and performance art, focusing on the Vietnamese American performance ensemble, Club O'Noodles.

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