Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter

Fall Quarter 1998; Volume 8, No. 1

Recent Gifts

Steve Soulinhakhath Arounsack: SatJaDham, A Lao Literary Group: Collected Writings, vol . 2, 1998.

Jane Burhoe: Her paper, Characteristics of cultural adaptation and the emergence of new identities among Southeast Asian refugees in the United States, presented at the annual conference of the Association of Asian American Studies, Honolulu, 1998.

Julien Calvier: His Les Cambodgiens en France, 1997? (Dept. of Geography, Sorbonne).

Lien Doan: Scouting periodicals: Bach Ma, June 1998; Dan-Than, June 1998; Giup-Ich, July 1998; Lien Lac, nos. 24, Sept. 1997, 26-28, March, June, Sept. 1998; Vung Hong, nos. 13-15, 1997-1998.

Free Vietnam Alliance: Copies of Vietnam Democracy, April-September 1998.

Hien Giang: Vietnam, a tourist guide, Hanoi, 1992.

Cuong Quy Huynh: Updated version of his paper, Dissemination of HIV/AIDS information in the Vietnamese community, 1998.

Ngo and Khang Lai: Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce in Orange County 1998 Vietnamese Business Directory.

Simon Leung: Announcement and exhibition catalog for his project, Surf Vietnam, 28 June-16 August 1998, Huntington Beach, CA.

Nhi Lieu: Her paper, Fashioning identities through performance: memory, nostalgia, and the hegemony of "Paris by Night" videos, presented at the annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Honolulu, 1998.

Richard Mackie: His Operation New Life: the Untold Story, 1998. (Concerns Vietnamese refugees evacuated to Guam in 1975).

Brigitte Marshall: Copies of Myths, legends and folk tales from the Hmong of Laos, 1992; The Hmong: 1987-1995, a selected and annotated bibliography, by J. Christina Smith, 1996; Dab neeg xau nws luaj li cas tiag?, 1990; Literacy health manual: English/Hmong (Experiment in International Living), 1986; Grandmother's path, grandfather's way, by Lue Vang & Judy Lewis, 1990; Leaving (Yosemite Middle School, Fresno, CA), 1986; Hmong sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome: a cultural study, by Bruce Bliatout, 1982; Stories in thread: Hmong pictorial embroidery, (book & cassette), 1989; Voices of challenge, (video), 1989.

Locke Morrisey: Two articles in the Ford Foundation Report, Spring/Summer 1998: "Women in the new Vietnam: new opportunities and struggles," by Theodora Lurie; and "Vietnam takes a new turn," by John Ambler.

Gayle Morrison: "The Hmong: a struggle in the sun," special section reprinted from the Fresno Bee, 1984; Career development for Indochinese: a curriculum guide, San Jose City College, 1980; Medical guide & glossary, Indochinese Cultural & Service Center, Portland, OR, 1980 (English. Cambodian, Laotian, & Vietnamese editions); Indochinese Refugee Forum of Orange County, Services Directory, 1980; Fresno County Refugee Plan, 1990; Fresno County Annual planning information, 1990; The Hmong Record (Fresno), April 1998; The Vietnam Business Journal, March/April 1995; materials relating to Vietnamese culture and Vietnamese students in Orange County, 1991 NAFEA conference; the 1993 Cambodian elections; newspaper articles from the Bangkok Post, Fresno Bee, Pacific Rim News, Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Nguyen Ngoc Bich: Radiologs and cassette recordings of Radio Free Asia Vietnamese broadcasts, February 1997-July 1997.

Hung Nguyen & Sam Vorachack: Materials concerning the San Diego Police Department Indochinese Community Relations Office.

Khuong X. Nguyen: Copies of Duc Me, 143-146, 1998; Giao Diem, 29-30, 1998; Nguyet San Giac Ngo, 26-28, 1998; Nguyet San Muc Vu, 169 1998; Tuan Bao Giac Ngo, 105-106, 110-124 1998; Vien Giac, 105, 1998; Chan Troi Moi, August 1998; Niem Phat Thap Yeu, 1990 & Thinh Do Thap Nghi Luan, 1985, by Thich Thien Tam.

Dr. Quan Q. Nguyen: Nhan Ban, 1998 (Annandale, VA).

Grace L. Orozco: Her paper, The impact of acculturation on the ethnic identity of Hmong refugees in the United States, presented at the annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Honolulu, 1998.

Thy Pech: Proleung Khmer, vol. 3, 1997 (United Cambodian Students of UCLA); Perspective, vol. 1, no. 1, September 1998 (Cambodian Student Society of CSU Long Beach); Human Rights and Development, issue no. 1, 1993 (The Human Rights and Community Outreach Projects of Cambodia, Bangkok).

Dr. Frank Proscham: Lao Viet Khmer, 1981-1983, and Que Me/Homeland, 1978-1979 (newsletters from Texas); Indochinese News, 1986-1987, 1992 (Stockton, CA); Houston's Asian American Organizations, 1983; Southeast Asian Refugee Resource Directory for San Joaquin County, CA, 1987; Morning and Evening Chanting, 1981, Pali & English, used by the Cambodian Buddhist Temple in Maryland; four workshop booklets for the Santa Barbara, CA County Schools Indochinese Technical Assistance Project, 1981.

Prany Sananikone: Hommage a sa majeste Sri Savang Vatthana, roi du Lane Xang, 1990 (L'Association Fa-Ngum & la Fondation Sri Savang Vatthana, France).

Karen Scott: 1998 Kaleidoscope Multicultural Festival program (Multicultural Arts Council of Orange County); Vietnamese community culture & people, Kaleidoscope Festival 1998.

Eric Sing: Long Beach Police Department publication: Police officers' cultural guide to the Indochinese communities.

Thanong Sithisombath: Paxasinh Lao Monthly Magazine, 25, 1998; Atan heng pongai, by Dork Ked, Vientiane, 1995.

Beth Sibley: "Libraries in Cambodia: rebuilding a past and a future," by Margaret A. Bywater. IFLA Journal, 24 (1998)

Daniel Tsang: Copies of online articles concerning Southeast Asian communities.

Mrs. An Van Tran: Vien khach: kich va tho, by Hoa Thu Le Nuuyen Linh, Hanoi, 1997.

Dr. Tran Si Lam: Huong Van, Vol. 3, September 1998.

Viet Nam California Radio: VNCR Yearbook, 1998-99, Garden Grove, CA.

Min Zhou: Her paper, Coming of age: the current situation of Asian American children, presented at the Association of Asian American Studies annual conference, Honolulu, 1998.

Thanks to all our donors for their contributions!

Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience

The holdings of the Southeast Asian Archive will be the subject of the UC Irvine Langson Library Reynolds Gallery Fall 1998 exhibit, "Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience." Highlighted are the contributions of numerous donors in building the Archive. All materials in the exhibit are from the Southeast Asian Archive, and individual donors of materials will be recognized throughout.

The exhibit covers the challenges faced by the refugees in fleeing their home countries, including time spent in refugee camps and initial resettlement. Additional materials focus on the experiences and achievements of the Cambodian, Hmong, Lao, and Vietnamese communities in the United States. Items to be exhibited include photographs, works of art, letters, manuscripts, artifacts, and publications.

"Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience" will open the week of October 12. It can be viewed when the Langson Library is open: (Monday-Thursday, 8:00AM-11:00 PM; Friday, 8:00 AM-6:00 PM, Saturday, 9:00-6:00 PM; Sunday, 12 noon-11:00 PM). The exhibit is open to the public and admission is free. There is a charge for parking at UCI. Please call 949/824-7486 for parking information.

SEA Archive Fall Quarter Hours

UCI Southeast Asian Student Groups

Cambodian Student Organization (CSO): Meets Wednesdays, 5:00 PM, HH100. Chair: Sok Rim, srim@uci.edu.

Laotian Thai Cultural Club (LTCC): Meets Mondays, 5:00-6:00 PM, Cross-Cultural Center; Chair: Varinda Jinatongthai, vjinaton@uci.edu.

Vietnamese American Coalition (VAC): Meets Thursdays, 7:00 PM, Monarch Bay A. Co-chairs: Minh Tram Dao, minhtram@uci.edu, & Hao Truong, htruong@uci.edu, 714/445-8158.

Vietnamese Student Association (VSA): Meets Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 PM, Monarch Bay B. Chair: Christian Nguyen,vsa@spirit.dos.uci.edu.

Upcoming VAC Activities

The 6th annual Little Saigon Cleanup will take place on Saturday, November 21, 9:00-12 noon. Participants should meet at the corner of Bolsa and Magnolia near the ABC supermarket. This annual cleanup day attracts student volunteers from schools and colleges, along with community activists. Contact VAC co-chair Hao Truong for more information.

Applications are being taken for the Vietnamese American Mentor Program (VAMP). VAMP 's goal is to build relationships between high school and college students through a "big brother/big sister" relationship. Contact Minh Tran at tramqm@uci.edu, 714/652-3110, or Viet Hoai Nguyen at viethoan@uci.edu, 714/775-2887.

New Southeast Asian Studies Class

Humanities Research Institute 1998-1999 postdoctoral fellow Jacqueline Siapno is offering "Southeast Asia: Literatures and Visual Cultures" fall quarter. This course is a survey of colonial and post-independence Southeast Asian history as articulated in literature, film, religion and popular culture. Examined will be ideas of power, political agency, sexuality, and resistance, with a strong emphasis on analysis of cultural attributes and images activated in the "traditional" representations of the "model" female. Special focus on Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, and East Timor. Course code: 20756.

Fall Quarter 1998 Southeast Asian/Southeast Asian American Classes

AsianAm 151D: Vietnamese American Experience, Mon 6:00-8:50 PM, SSL 290 Prof. Pham

East Asian 155: Southeast Asia: Literatures & Visual Cultures, MWF, 1:00-2:00, HIB 110 Prof. Siapno

Hist 172A: Southeast Asia to 1500, Tu-Th,11:00-12:20, HH 105 Prof. Woods

Cambodian Photographic Exhibitions

Two distinct perspectives of Cambodian history and culture are explored in photographic exhibitions currently being held in Long Beach and San Diego.

The Arts of Aspara Gallery and Cultural Center features photographs by Japanese-born photographer, Kendro Izo of the ancient stone temples of Angkor in "Light over Ancient Angkor." The dates of the exhibition are September 11-November 10, 1998. The gallery is located at 2338 East Anaheim Street, Suite 105, Long Beach, CA 90804; 562/439-3932; khmerart@gte.net.

The Museum of Photographic Art, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego presents two exhibitions. "Facing Death: Portraits from Cambodia's Killing Fields," pays homage to the thousands of Cambodian men women and children who were systematically photographed before being tortured and executed by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. This exhibition closes November 5, 1998. Kendo Izu's photographs of Angkor will be featured through November 10, 1998 in "Light over Ancient Angkor." Admission is $4 per adult; free to members and to children under 12 with an adult. For more information: 619/238-7559; info@mopa.org; www.mopa.org.

Vietnamese Student Association

Selected Recent Acquisitions

Aday, Ronald H. & Kano, Zakari M. (1997). Attitudes towards caring for aging parents: A comparison of Laotian and U.S. students. Educational Gerontology 23(2), 151-167.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Examines the role of culture in filial obligations among 60 Laotian high school students and 60 American high school students.

Argiros, Rita Michele. (1994). Kinship, work and welfare: An event history analysis of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton.
E184 I43 A74 1994a Southeast Asian Archive
Analyzes the way Vietnamese, Chinese, Lao, and Khmer refugees have combined work and welfare with changing household structures between 1983-1987.

Bankston, Carl L. III & Zhou, Min. (1996). Go fish: The Louisiana Vietnamese and ethnic entrepreneurship in an extractive industry. National Journal of Sociology 10(1), 37-55.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Uses U.S. census data in examining the concentrated involvement of Louisiana's Vietnamese population in the state's fishing industry.

Duncan, Julianne Smith. (1987). Cambodian refugee use of indigenous and Western healers to prevent or alleviate mental illness. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.
RC451.4 R43 D31 1987a SE Asian Archive
Examines traditional and Western healing choices within the context of an extensive ethnographic examination of the Pierce County, Washington Cambodian community.

Getahun, Linde Joveda. (1997). Women in cultural transition: Voices of Hmong mothers in an urban school. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota.
F615 H55 G48 1997a Southeast Asian Archive
Based on interviews with 20 Hmong mothers between the ages of 17 and 21 enrolled in a St. Paul, Minnesota high school

Goldman, Ann Yarwood. (1995). Lao Mien embroidery: migration and change. Bangkok: White Lotus.
TT770 G653 1995 Southeast Asian Archive
Study of Mien needlework in Thailand and in the United States by a co-founder of the Lao Handcraft Center in Berkeley, California. Contains many color illustrations and a glossary of Lao Mien embroidery designs.

Hong, Thao. (1995). Hmong music in Vietnam. Revised & translated by Phong T. Nguyen. Nhac Viet: The Journal of Vietnamese Music special issue, 4:2.
ML345 V5 H657 1995 Southeast Asian Archive
Revision and translation of the author's research conducted among the Hmong in Ha Giang Province in the 1950s.

Kent, Douglas R & Felkenes, George T. (1998). Cultural explanations for Vietnamese youth involvement in street gangs. Final report to the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention.
HV6439 U72 W465 1998 c.2 Southeast Asian Archive
Study sponsored by the City of Westminster in order to make recommendations for the development of effective prevention programs.

Miyares, Ines M. (1997). Changing perceptions of space and time as measures of Hmong acculturation. Professional Geographer 49(2), 214-225.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Using interviews and participant observation among 120 Hmong university students and their families in California's San Joaquin Valley, settlement patterns and use of space is traced from Laos to the 1.5 generation.

Poethig, Kathryn Aileen. (1997). Ambivalent moralities: Cambodian Americans and dual citizenship in Phnom Penh. Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate Theological Union.
DS554.46 A46 P48 1997a Southeast Asian Archive
An ethnology of the moral discourse of Cambodian Americans as transnational citizens.

Reasmey Angkor Newsletter. Vol. 2, 1994- . San Francisco: The Cambodian New Society of San Francisco.
DS554 P437 vol. 2-4, 1994/1995-1996/1997 Southeast Asian Archive
Khmer and English publication covering events internationally and in the United States relating to the Cambodian American community.

Vietnam Review: VR.. Vol. 1, 1996- . Editor: Huynh Sanh Thong. Hamden, Conn.: Vietnam Review (46 Glendower Road, Hamden, Conn. 06517).
PL4378 A49 vol. 1-4 Southeast Asian Archive
Quarterly publication containing stories, poems, essays and studies.

Wood, Joseph. (1997). Vietnamese American place making in Northern Virginia. The Geographical Review 87(1), 58-72.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Discusses the impact of the Vietnamese American population on the suburban landscape.

Vietnamese Student Alliance (UCI UCR UCLA CSULB CSUF USC)

The UCI Library Southeast Asian Archive was established in 1987 to document the resettlement experiences of refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Viet Nam who have come to the United States since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

Donations of materials and funds are greatly appreciated. Materials from Southeast Asian individuals and organizations (e.g., personal stories, photographs, correspondence, records of organizations and businesses, brochures, pamphlets, programs, posters, audio and videotapes, newsletters, reports, books, magazines and journals) are particularly welcome.

The Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter is issued three times during the academic year. It is available also on the worldwide web at: http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/sasian.html.

For more information about the collection or to put your name on the mailing list for the newsletter, please contact Anne Frank, Southeast Asian Archive, UC Irvine Langson Library, P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557; 949/824-4968 (phone); 949/824-5740 (fax); afrank@uci.edu

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