Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter

Spring Quarter 2000, Volume 9, No. 3

Recent Gifts

Professor Chris Collett: Coi nguon bat an=Roots of unrest, by Phan Tran Hieu, Orange County Register, 1999.

Hoang Hieu: His work: Truyen ngan viec dai. Thu Hai, 1999.

Minh Giang: Documents, periodicals and videos concerning the Government of Free Vietnam organization, based in Garden Grove, California; http://www.vntd.org.

Le Tan Huynh: Copy of Van hoa Viet Nam, by Le Thai At, 1999.

Nguyen Hung Cuong: Dac San Xuan 2000: Canh Thin, published by the Vietnamese Senior Citizens Association, Washington D.C. area.

Khuong X. Nguyen: Vietnamese Buddhist and Catholic periodicals: Duc Me, no. 162 (January 2000); Nguyet San Giac Ngo, nos. 44-45 (November-December 1999); Tuan Bao Giac Ngo, nos. 188-197 (June 1999-January 6, 2000).

Nguyen Ngoc Bich: Radiologs and cassette recordings of Radio Free Asia Vietnamese broadcasts, January-March 1999.

Nguyen Van Ty: His (Phung Nghi) works: Sai Gon trong mat toi, Van Nghe, 1997; 100 nam phat trien tieng Viet, Vaên Ngheä, 1999.

Nguyen Xuan Son: Issues 7-9 (July 1999-March 2000) of the newsletter, Suu-tam: Ban tin nguoi Viet hai ngoai.

Pacific Ties (UCLA): February 2000 issue.

Thanh Pham: Chi Linh, no. 196 (Feb. 3, 2000); Hoan Viet, nos. 179,183,185 (Aug., Dec. 1998, Feb. 1999); Thoi Bao, nos. 447, 449-451 (Jan.-Feb. 2000); Thôi Luan, Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2000.

Vu Hoang Pham: His paper on Vietnamese students in America before 1975.

Howie Phan: The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing, vol. 43:2 (Winter 2000). This issue features Vietnamese poems and stories and contains five of his poems, translated into English.

Stephen Sherman: Clippings concerning Southeast Asian refugees from 1970s and 1980s newspapers, including the Boston Globe, Houston Press, Houston Chronicle, New York Times, Straits Times, and Sunday Nation.

Dr. Tran So Lam: Huong Van (no. 10, summer 2000); his book of short stories, Ao anh cuoc doi (Dong Van, 2000).

Van Nghe Publishers: 1999-2000 publications: Nguyen Minh Can, Chuyen nuoc non; Duong Nhu Nguyen, Mui huong que; Huynh Huu Uy, May neo duong cua nghe thuat va chu nghia; J.-F. Revel & M. Ricard, Tang si va triet gia, tr. by Linh Thuy.

We are very grateful to the following publishers who have been contributing their periodicals to the Southeast Asian Archive on a continuous basis: Duoc Tu Bi, Hôp Luu, Human Rights/Nhan Quyen/ Droite de L'Homme, Huong Van, Lao Vision, Nguoi Dan, Non Song, Van, Van Hoa, Van Hoc, Viet Nam Dan Chu, Vietnam Democracy.

Our apologies to donors inadvertently not listed; we truly appreciate your support.

VASC Conference 2000

The 6th annual Vietnamese American Student Conference will be held on Saturday, May 6 in the UCI Student Center. This year's theme is "Emerging from the past to speak of our present." The one-day conference seeks to address issues concerning Vietnamese Americans in the United States through a number of presentations and interactive workshops led by community leaders, faculty, and students Workshops planned include: coalition building, "breaking the silence": Vietnamese American queers, Vietnamese in performance arts, Vietnamese identity, portrayal of Vietnamese Americans in the media, Anti-hate crimes: remembering Thien Minh Ly, bridge building between generations, and tobacco awareness.

The conference is sponsored by the Vietnamese American Coalition at UCI (VAC), whose purpose is to promote active involvement and to voice issues pertaining to the Vietnamese American community, as well as addressing social and political concerns relevant to Vietnam.

Registration fee is $3.00 for students and $5.00 for non-students. Lunch and entertainment are included. Parking is available for $4.00 at the parking structure on Pereira Drive. For more information contact Anh Tran, 714/423-8791 or Thao Nguyen, 714/423-8426; vasc2000@hotmail.com; http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/vac/index.html.

SEA Archive Summer Hours

Starting Monday, June 12, the Southeast Asian Archive will be on its summer schedule, Monday-Friday, 1:00-5:00 PM and by appointment. We will resume Saturday hours on September 23, at the beginning of fall quarter 2000.

Anne Frank will be away from the SEA Archive approximately July 5-August 11. The Archive will be open its regular hours during this time, staffed by student assistants.

New Student Assistant: Thanh-Tam (Tammie) Le

Hello, my name is Thanh-Tam. I was born in Vietnam and arrived in the United States nine years ago. Presently, I am a junior majoring in Biology. I am planning to enroll in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) in fall quarter 2000. My future goal is to be accepted into pharmacy school in the 2002-2003 academic year.

When I have free time from schoolwork, I enjoy reading, playing the piano, going to the beach, and rollerblading. Fortunately, this quarter I am working at the Southeast Asian Archive and have had an opportunity to explore the vast variety of the Southeast Asian collections.

UCLA Intern: Howie Phan (Phan Nhien Hao)

UCI Southeast Asian Student Groups

Cambodian Student Organization (CSO):
Meets Wednesdays
Chair: Sotheary Moeung, 949/856-1997; smoeung@uci.edu; http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/cambo/index.html

Hmong Student Association:
Meets Thursdays, 7:00 PM.
Contact: Mary Yang, 949/737-6720; matang@uci.edu.

Laotian-Thai Cultural Club (LTCC):
Meets Mondays, 5:00 PM, Cross-Cultural Center.
Chair: Switaya Krisnasmit, (714) 962-4950; ltcc@uci.edu; http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/ltcc/index.html.

Vietnamese American Coalition (VAC):
Meets Thursdays, 7:00 PM.
Chair: Ricky Nguyen, 949/509-9139, drm2006@aol.com; http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/vac/index.html.

Vietnamese Student Association (VSA):
Meets Thursdays, 6:00 PM.
vsa@uci.edu

Fall of Saigon Workshop

On April 26 the Vietnamese Student Association at UCI sponsored a workshop on the Fall of Saigon and the 25 years of the Vietnamese American experience. Covering the topics of war, adaptation, and acculturation were Mr. Uc Van Nguyen, a former officer in the Southern Vietnamese military; Susie Dong-Matsuda, a bilingual/cultural social worker with the Orange County Department of Mental Health; and Mr. Vu Hoang Pham, a graduate student at Cornell University, currently working on his dissertation on Vietnamese in the United States prior to 1975. A discussion with the audience followed the presentations by the speakers.

UCI Fall 2000 Vietnamese Classes

In fall quarter 2000 the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures will offer three Vietnamese language classes: two classes of beginning Vietnamese (Vietnamese 1A), tentatively scheduled for 8:00 AM and 2:00 PM, Monday through Friday; and one class of Intermediate Vietnamese (Vietnamese 2A), tentatively scheduled for 3:00 PM, Monday-Friday. Each session will be limited to 24 students. Placement tests will take place in September. For more information contact Mindy Han in the EALL department: 949/824-2165; mindyhan@uci.edu.

UCI Summer Session Courses

To be offered first session, June 26-August 3:

Fundamentals of Vietnamese S1AB, 7.5 units. Course code: 20050, fee: $660, MThWThF, 9-11:50 AM, Room 100 Humanities Hall. Instructor: Tin Pham. Together with S1BC (second session, August 7-September 13; course code 20055) this course offers first-year Vietnamese in an intensified form. Intended for students with little or no knowledge of the Vietnamese language. Emphasis is on mastery of the basic language skills of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing.

Politics and Power in Vietnamese American Community, AsianAm 131, 4 units. Course code: 37220, fee: $340, MWF 3-4:50 PM, Room 1165 Social Science Plaza A. Instructor: Christian Collet. Introduction to the political development of and competition for leadership in Vietnamese communities in the United States. Particular emphasis given to Little Saigon. Further, Orange County politics placed in perspective to other Vietnamese American communities across the country, including San Jose, Houston, and the Washington DC metropolitan area. Vietnamese American politics is compared also to the politics of other Asian American communities, as well as other ethnic communities such as the Cuban Americans in Florida. Same as Political Science 129.

Registration information can be found at http://www.summer.uci.edu, or call 949/824-5493.

New Vietnamese Web Site: VSIRC

The Vietnamese Studies Internet Resource Center http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Stage/8421/is intended as a resource base for both scholars and community members interested in the study of Vietnamese culture as well as the adjustment of overseas Vietnamese. Contributions to VSIRC, e.g., research papers for online posting, research references and suggested links, may be sent to the webmaster, Mark Pfeifer at vstudies@yahoo.com. Currently the site offers a bibliography of Vietnamese related research, 1954-present, full text of Vietnamese-related research papers, and links of interest.

Selected Recent Acquisitions

Beiser, Morton. (1999). Strangers at the gate: The "boat people's" first ten years in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
F1035 I55 B45 1999 Southeast Asian Archive
Describes the author's ten-year study of 1,300 Southeast Asian "boat people" admitted to Canada between 1979 and 1981.

Dong-Matsuda, Susie Xuyen. (1998). A study of Vietnamese women's coping skills. M.A. thesis, California State University, Long Beach.
Cataloging in Process
Analyzed responses of 65 Vietnamese women that identified the more common coping skills, e.g., internal self-control, and demonstrated that coping skills did not vary according to education, occupation and marital status.

Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira & Julian, Roberta. (1998). Minority women and the experiences of migration. Women's Studies International Forum, 21(6), 633-648.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Examines the themes of minority relations and gender oppression by comparing the experiences of international migrants, Hmong women from Laos to Tasmania, Australia, with internal migrants, Rabi Das women in West Bengal, India.

Hamilton, Louise E.P. (1996). Identity and intergenerational conflict among Cambodian refugee youth in Toronto. M.A. thesis, York University.
F1059.5 T689 K454 1996a SEA Archive
Ethnographic study which examines resistance to traditional culture, youth identity, gender, and the development of new cultural forms by Cambodian high school students.

Lam, Vinh-The. (2000). Creation, organization and use of recorded information on the overseas Vietnamese experience. Paper given by the author at the Conference on the Overseas Vietnamese Experience, The Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, March 31-April 1, 2000.
Conference Papers File
Thorough and detailed study which includes a "Selected Bibliography of Bibliographies," and a "Selected List of Vietnam-Related Websites." Available on the web at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Stage/8421/

Nienu, Jan Ezung. (1995). Cultural distanciation and intergenerational differences among Southeast Asian adults and children: Implications in the California preschool context. Ed.D. dissertation, University of San Francisco.
Cataloging In Process
Investigates intergenerational child-rearing practices of Khmu and Mien people living in Richmond, California.

Novak, Loretta Jean. (1993). We are Amerasian. M.A. thesis (and videocassette), California State University, Long Beach.
Cataloging in Process
Ethnographic fieldwork study that gives a visual representation of Amerasian culture: in classes at St Anselm's Cross-Cultural Community Center in Garden Grove, California, in two Amerasian family homes, and in Little Saigon.

Reyes, Adelaida. (1999). Songs of the caged, songs of the free: Music and the Vietnamese refugee experience. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
ML3560 V5 R49 1999 Southeast Asian Archive
Considers the role of music in the context of forced migration, tracing Vietnamese refugees from the refugee camps through resettlement in the United States.

Rush, Randall Allen. (1993). An endangered transported landscape: Laotian and Tongan communities at Kahuku, Oahu. M.A. thesis, University of Hawaii.
S451 H3 R87 1993a Southeast Asian Archive
Case study of farming practices of Laotian and Tongan immigrant groups on the urban fringe of Honolulu.

Taing, Vek Huong, as told to Sharon Fischer. (1980). Ordeal in Cambodia: One family's miraculous survival - escape from the Khmer Rouge: A true story. San Bernardino, CA: Here's Life Publishers.
DS554.83 T35 A3 1980 Southeast Asian Archive
The author and his wife were staff members of Campus Crusade for Christ International in Phnom Penh at the time of the takeover of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. The family eventually resettled in San Bernardino, California in 1979.

Weighing the balance: Southeast Asian Studies ten years after: Proceedings of two meetings held in New York City, November 15 and December 10, 1999. (2000). New York: Southeast Asia Program, Social Science Research Council.
Cataloging in Process
Assessment of the field of Southeast Asian Studies in the United States in both comparative and longitudinal terms by key figures in the field.

Yenbutara, Pajaree. (1988). The acculturation and assimilation of Laotian refugees in San Diego, California. M.A. thesis, United States Interna-tional University.
F870 L27 Y6 1988a Southeast Asian Archive
Analyses responses from 77 Laotians to a questionnaire regarding the acculturation process. The respondents were divided into three groups: under 20 years old, 20-34 years old, and over 34 years old.

NAFEA 2000 Conference

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