Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter

Spring Quarter 2001, Volume 10, No. 3

Recent Gifts

Karin Aguilar-San Juan: Her Ph.D. dissertation, Creating ethnic places: Vietnamese American community-building in Orange County and Boston, Brown University, 2000.

Professor Rosalie Giacchino Baker: Four of her articles: "Linking international research to American public school needs: An educational project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic." Phi Beta Delta International Review, 7 (Spring 1997); "Peanut butter and mango trees: Teacher education in the Lao People's Democratic Republic." International Education 1 (Fall 1996); "A tale of two bridges: Educational reform in the Lao People's Democratic Republic." International Journal of Educational Reform 3:4 (Oct. 1994); Learning about students from unfamiliar cultures." Proceedings of the National Association for Multicultural Education, 5th Annual Conference, Feb. 15-19, 1995, Washington. D.C.

Mitchell Bonner: Ephemera, periodicals, photos, newspaper articles pertaining to Southeast Asian communities in Northern California, including materials about Iu-Mien organizations, photos of Lao New Year 2000 at the Richmond City Hall, Paxasinh Lao Magazine (no. 35, July 1, 2000)' Anachack Lao News (2000), Dac San Xuan Tan Tî 2001 (San Francisco), selected issues of AsianWeek (2000-2001)

Dr. Chris Collet: Copies of Viet Mercury (nos. 77-79, July 2000; 109, 111-113, 115-116, Feb.-April 2001) .

Doan Thanh Liem: His Tho trong tu=Poems from prison (Spring 2000).

Lloyd T. Duong: His bilingual book, The boat people: Imprints on history=Thuyen nhan: An tich lòch su. (Boston, Toronto, 2000). [Copies are available for $25U.S, $35/CAN per volume + $5 overseas delivery; Lloyd Duong Attorneys Atrium, 2377 Dundas St. West, Toronto, Ontario M6P 1W7 Canada; DoungThanhLoïi@DòaChi.com].

Hoang-Duy: Two books of poetry: Dao ben song trang trang, and Tieng tho hai ngoaïi.

Huynh Van Lang: His works: Co bac: mot chuong hoi-ky va vai ñoan ve nghe-thuat (1998); Chuyen duong rung: mot chuong hoi ky (1999); Nhan chung mot che do: mot chuong hoi ky (2000?).

Professor Ketu Katrak: Materials from the Committee against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAV); article from the Radcliffe News, "Exhibition offers glimpse into Cambodian courage, culture," by Lilli Leggio, which concerns the Cambodian American Oral History Project at the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.

Dr. Van Le: Publications relating to education, refugees, and Southeast Asian Americans, including copies of Refugee Reports (1989-2000) NAVAE and NAFEA newsletters (1987-1999), Nguoi Viet Tu Do (1997-2000), World Refugee Survey (1987,1997-2000); Vietnam Digest (1979); Le Hoa: Dac San Mua Xuan 2000, From Vietnamese to Vietnamese American, by Kim Nguyen Tu (CSU Sacramento M.A. thesis, 1989).

Professor Glen Mimura: Materials relating to the exhibit, "Indochina: The Art of War," (CSU Los Angeles, 17 March-28 April 2001)

Gayle Morrison: Copies of the Sept. 10-12, & Dec. 31,2000 Sacramento Bee series on the Hmong: "Orphans of history"; Hmong Times (March 16, 2001); 1987 Fresno Hmong New Year poster; flyers and brochures relating to the Hmong American community and the 2001 Hmong Development Conference.

Sue Mote: Video, Tieng cuoi Cali, featuring Bao Liem, My Huyen, Ngoc Anh, and Van Son.

Nguoi Dan Publishers: 2000 publications: Nghi quan Viet quanh: tap luan (Hoang Hon); Di vang: truyen ky (Si Quoc); Cong san dang lung lung tro lai (Dai Duong).

Nguyen Ngoc Bich: Radiologs and cassette recordings of Radio Free Asia Vietnamese broadcasts, January-March 2000.

Nguyen Hung Cuong: Dac-San Xuan 2001-Tan Ty, published by the Vietnamese Senior Citizens Association, Washington, D.C. area.

Khuong X. Nguyen: Nguyet San Giac Ngo (nos. 56-58, Nov. 2000-Jan. 2001); Tuan Bao Giac Ngo (nos. 41-56, Sept. 2000-Jan. 2001).

Tu-Uyen Nguyen: Articles and documents concerning Vietnamese boat people and the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA).

Dr. Pham Van Hai: Six numbers in the series, Folktales of Vietnam.

Sok Rim: Program for the CSU Long Beach Cambodian Student Society's "17th Annual Cambodian Culture Show," April 8, 2001; program for the CSU Fullerton Cambodian Students Association "Khmer New Year Show 2001."

Sophy Sam: Tapes and scripts of two plays, The Dead Accuse and Prisoners; Proleung Khmer (UCLA, 1997); program for Cambodian Beauty Pageant 2000 (Long Beach); C-HOPE monthly calendar B.E. 2545; posters & flyers relating to the Cambodian American community.

Van Nghe Publishers: 2000 publications: Be ban gan xa: but ky (Phan Lac Phuc), and Suoi nho em diu kich (Nguyen Huy Thiep).

Professor Linda Trinh Vo: Proceedings from the International Committee for a Free Vietnam World Seminar and Vietnamese Political World Conferences, 1996 & 1997; journal article: "Inside Vietnam today," by Andrew Pierre. Foreign Affairs 79:6 (Nov.-Dec. 2000).

Linh Duy Vo: His book of poetry, To America, Love and Gratitude (2000); Offerings at the Wall: Artifacts from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection (1995); postcards and newspaper articles concerning his work.

Jack Willoughby: Distorted mirror: Southeast Asian criminality in the United States, 3rd ed., by Jack Willoughby, Ken Sanz, & Pete Francisco, 2000. (Copies are available for $30 from S.M & C Sciences, Inc., 13938 Egret Lane, Clearwater, FL 33642; (727) 573-9747; ksanz@aol.com)

Teri Shaffer Yamada: copy of the April 19, 2001 "Visiting with Huel Howser" KCET documentary on the Long Beach Cambodian community.

Sincere thanks to all our donors!

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Southeast Asian Archive Spring Quarter Hours

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Collection Notes

Recognition and a big "thank you" is due to the publishers of periodicals who have been donating their publications to the Southeast Asian Archive on a regular basis. Our sincere appreciation to the donors of the following titles: Dan Chu & Phat Trien, Duoc Tu Bi, Hiep Nhat, Hop Löu, Human Rights/Nhan Quyen/Droits de l'Homme, Huong Van, Indochina Chronology, Lao Vision, Newsletter of the Resource Center of the Hmong Cultural Center (St Paul, MN), Nguoi Dan, Suu-Tam: Ban Tin Nguoi Viet Hai Ngoai, Van, Van Hoa, Van Hoc, Viet Nam Dan Chu, Vietnam Democracy. We hope we haven't inadvertently forgotten anyone. If so, please let us know so we can thank you in the next Newsletter.

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The Archive recently received an additional ten boxes of materials from the Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (SEARAC) in Washington D.C. (See related story in the winter 2001 Newsletter). Included in this shipment are files for the Cambodia Crisis Center, correspondence, case files, & documents relating to requests for asylum from people in refugee camps; information on MAAs across the U.S., and much more! We are very grateful to SEARAC for their generous gift.

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Southeast Asian Archive Summer Quarter Hours

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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: Roy Janechuti, 949/387-9323; rjanechu@uci.edu.

Vietnamese American Coalition (VAC):
Meets Thursdays, 7:00 PM, HH 143. Chair: Toan Vong, vac@uci.edu.

Vietnamese Student Association (VSA):
Meets Thursdays, 6:00 PM, Emerald Bay A. Chair: Patrick Pham, plpham@uci.edu.

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UCI Honors Yen Do

UCI Libraries Director Gerald Munoff presents a plaque recognizing Mr. Yen Do, founding editor of the Nguoi Viet newspaper, and chairman of the Southeast Asian Archive Advisory Board at UC Irvine on February 21, 2001. The ceremony was held in conjunction with a talk by Dr. Franklin Odo, Director of the Smithsonian Program for Asian Pacific American Studies, Washington D.C. Dr. Odo came to UCI to visit the Southeast Asian Archive and to encourage the on-going collection of documents and artifacts concerning the Southeast Asian American community.

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Camp for Youth Fundraiser

The Little Saigon Foundation Camp for Youth will be holding its first fundraising dinner, "Hinh Dung = Imagine," on Sunday, June 3. The purpose is to support a community-based camp program which provides an opportunity for at-risk youths to explore issues of assimilation, cultural diversity, community building, and stress management outside urban settings.

The dinner will be held at 6:00 PM at the Emerald Bay Seafood Restaurant, 501 W. Edinger, Ave., Suite 5, Santa Ana. Tickets purchased by May 19, 2001 are $25 per person or $45 per couple. Tickets purchased after May 19, 2001 are $30 per person or $50 per couple. Pre-purchase of tickets is recommended as seats are limited. The event will include dinner, raffle drawing and entertainment. Please send your checks for tickets to Camp for Youth, P.O. Box 4331, Garden Grove, CA 92842-4331. Donations are tax deductible. For more information call 714/624-4779.

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New Online Vietnamese Studies Journal

The Vietnamese Studies Internet Resource Centre (VSIRC); www.vstudies.org. is accepting submis-sions of articles for volume 1, issue 1 for a new online academic journal, The Review of Vietnamese Studies. Articles related to the adaptation of the Vietnamese diaspora, Vietnamese culture, and Vietnamese history are especially welcome. Articles will be published in both html and pdf formats in a special section of the VSIRC website dedicated to the new online journal.

Papers should be submitted by June 30, 2001. Articles will be reviewed for publication by Mark E. Pfeifer, Ph.D., editor of the VSIRC website. Authors may submit their papers for possible inclusion in the new journal by email attachment to vstudies@yahoo.com. Authors should include a list of references cited, if any, as well as personal biography listing academic interests, academic background, and professional affiliations. For more information contact Dr. Pfeifer at vstudies@yahoo.com or 615/917-9937, M-F, 10:00-6:00 (central time).

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Manoa Journal Special Issue

The University of Hawaii's Manoa Journal: A Pacific Journal of International Writing is planning a special issue on the Vietnamese Diaspora to be published in summer 2002. Submissions of short fiction, personal essays, memoirs and poetry are being sought. The focus is on excellent literary writing for general readers, rather than essays and specialized articles meant for a scholarly, academic, or specialized audience. The deadline is the end of May 2001. The guest editors are Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung at the University of Massachusetts - Boston Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.

Send submissions to the guest editors at Healey Library 10-8, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393; or to Frank Stewart, Editor, c/o Department of English, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822. Email submissions are not accepted. Direct questions about the special issue to Frank Stewart, mjournal-1@hawaii.edu. The Manoa Journal's website is www.hawaii.edu/mjournal.

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UCI Ph.D. Joins UCLA Faculty

Dr. Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo will be joining the UCLA faculty in Fall 2001 as an Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Southeast Asian Studies. She will be teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in these three programs on topics dealing principally with Vietnam and Vietnamese American Studies. Professor Nguyen Vo received her Ph.D. from UCI in Political Science in 1998. She currently is revising her dissertation, Governing the social: Prostitution and liberal governance in Vietnam during marketization, for publication. She also is pursuing a comparative study of garment workers in Vietnam and the U.S.

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Selected Recent Acquisitions

Bankston, Carl L. III and Zhou, Min. (2000). De facto congregationalism and socioeconomic mobility in Laotian and Vietnamese immigrant communities: A study of religious institutions and economic change. Review of Religious Research 41(4), 453-470.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Research is based on a Vietnamese Catholic congregation in New Orleans and a Laotian Buddhist group in New Iberia, LA.

Eyres, John Michael. (1999). Juvenile justice in Vietnam: A study in theory and practice. Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University.
HV9202.5 A5 E97 1999a SEA Asian Archive
Study based on research in Hanoi using both documents and interviews. Includes discussion on conducting cultural research in challenging environments.

Holgate, Susan Lee. (1994). Early marriages of Khmer high school students: Influences and consequences of culture, education, and intergenerational conflict. M.A. thesis, California State University, Stanislaus.
F870 K45 H65 1994a Southeast Asian Archive
Examines factors leading to an increase in weddings of Khmer teenagers at Modesto High School, including the preservation of the "virtuous woman," the importance of reputation; and the results of these early marriages.

Li, Shirley Geok-lin and Chua, Cheng Lok, Eds. (2000). Tilting the continent: Southeast Asian American writing. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers Press.
PS508 A8 T55 2000 Southeast Asian Archive
First published anthology of Southeast Asian American writing, it contains poetry, short stories and personal essays by recent arrivals as well as second-, third-, and fourth-generation Americans of Southeast Asian descent

Lee, Pao. (1999). Language maintenance and language shift among second-generation Hmong teenagers. Ed.D. dissertation, University of San Francisco
F870 H55 L4 1999a Southeast Asian Archive
Finds that English is the dominant language for Hmong teenagers, and that efforts to maintain their mother tongue will depend upon their desire to hold on to Hmong language, culture, and identity.

Loue, Sana, et. al. (1999). Integrating Buddhism and HIV prevention in U.S. Southeast Asian communities. Journal of Health Care for the Poor & Underserved 10(1), 100-121.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Proposes a new approach to HIV prevention programs within Southeast Asian communities. Religious concepts are integrated with HIV prevention messages, with the likelihood that message recipients will accept the prevention message as relevant.

Rice, Pranee Liamputtong. (2000). Death in birth: The cultural construction of stillbirth, neonatal death and maternal death among Hmong women in Australia. Omega: Journal of Death & Dying 41(1), 39-57.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Based on an ethnographic study with 27 Hmong women, aged 20-51 in Australia, it discusses traditional Hmong explanations about death in birth, the importance of life in birth, and the value of children in Hmong culture.

Ta, Minh-Hoa. (2000). Twice a minority: Participatory study of the Chinese-Vietnamese adaptation experiences in Vietnam and the United States. Ph.D. dissertation, University of San Francisco.
Cataloging in Process
Using participatory research methodology, dialogues with eight Chinese Vietnamese immigrants were analyzed to find out how the participants defined
their experiences as a minority in the U.S. and in Vietnam.

West, Cheryl. (2000). Pathways of thriving and resilience: Growth responses to adversity and trauma in two Cambodian communities: A comparative study between Lowell, Massachusetts and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. M.A. thesis, University of Massachu- setts, Lowell.
F75 K45 W47 2000a Southeast Asian Archive
Interviews were conducted with 21 people in each location with contents analyzed to identify themes pertinent to stress related growth.

Zoerhof, Linnay P. (1998). The impact of resettlement on occupational roles and daily living; A study of Laotian refugees living in south suburban Chicago. M.S. thesis, Rush University, College of Nursing.
E184 L25 Z65 1999a Southeast Asian Archive
Using interviews with four adults as a basis, this study focuses on examining barriers or stressors that interfere with occupational performance. Implications for occupational therapy are discussed.

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