Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter

Spring Quarter 2002, Volume 11, No. 3

Recent Gifts

• Mariam Beevi & James Lam:
  Program for "East Coast/West Coast: Vietnamese American writers, poets and performers," San Francisco State University, March 2, 2001; The Yellow Journal, 12:2 (Spring 2001, Asian American Studies Department, San Francisco State University); SFSU Asian American Studies Department 2001 brochure.
• Mitchell Bonner:
  Flyers, invitations, newspaper articles, brochures and other ephemera relating to community and social activities of Southeast Asian communities (mainly Laotian American) in the San Francisco Bay Area; photographs of Lao Khmu New Year 2001, Lao baci ceremony, Lao ceremony for spirits of the dead, and other events; article about Iu-Mien teenage shaman in SF Weekly, "The Shaman's apprentice," by Bernice Yeung (Sept. 5-11, 2001); various 2001-2002 issues of AsianWeek.
• Chiayu Chang:
  A rainbow of homeowners: Diverse ethnic groups share in the rising tide of ownership, by Jennifer Hieger, et al. Orange County Home (June 2002)
• Him Chhim:
  Victims and perpetrators? Testimony of young Khmer Rouge comrades, by Meng-Try Ea & Sorya Sim (Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of Cambodia, P.O. Box 1110, 2001); dccam@bigpond.com.kh; http://welcome.to/dccam.
• C-HOPE & Prany Sananikone:
  2001 C-HOPE calendar.
• Kay Collins:
  Indochina Refugee Resettlement Program: Study mission report of minority counsel prepared for the use of the Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, July 8, 1975.
• Tho Tho Dang:
  Her book: Phong trien lam mua dong: Tap truyen. (Los Angeles: Van Moi, 2002).
• Steven Doi:
  Vietnamese and English language magazines, journals, newsletters, and news- papers, 1981-1990, from California, Texas, Washington, Arizona, Minnesota, Louisiana, Australia, Canada, and Germany relating to Vietnamese overseas communities, and Asian/Southeast Asian studies
• Carolyn Hatton:
  Her children's book about Vietnamese French children growing up in Paris, Vero and Philippe (Chicago: Cricket Books, 2001).
• Jonathan Haughton:
  Living standards during an economic boom: The case of Vietnam, ed. by Dominique Haughton, Jonathan Haughton & Nguyen Phong (Hanoi: Statistical Publishing House, 2001).
• Robert R. Jones III:
  Various ephemeral materials relating to activities of Southeast Asian Americans in Southern California, including the 2002 United Cambodian Students' annual Culture Show at UCLA, Cambodian Buddhist Society of San Diego New Year celebration, Vietnamese Catholic Center 1996 booklet; Rithy Panh, French Cambodian filmmaker, retrospective at Scripps College; the May 2002 Pham Duy tribute.
• Professor Ketu Katrak:
  Brochures about the Hmong National Development, Inc. and the 2002 Hmong National Youth Leadership Summit.
• Buu Dien Phuc Nguyen & Thi Hoang Oanh Pham:
  Their books, Que Huong Hoai Niem I & II, 2001.
• Elizabeth Nguyen:
  Her Human Biology Honors Thesis, Who runs the household? A comparison study of the effects of acculturation on gender role attitudes and practices in Vietnamese and Vietnamese American households, Stanford University, June 2002.
• Hung Nguyen:
  A cultural guide to refugees and immigrants in California, a publication by the San Diego Police Department and Partners in our Community, 2002?
• Khuong X. Nguyen:
  Vietnamese language Buddhist periodicals: Tuan Bao Giac Ngo, nos. 92-103 (Oct. 2001-Jan. 2002); Nguyet San Giac Ngo, no. 68 (Nov. 2001).
• Tu-Uyen Nguyen:
  Materials relating to Project Ngoc activities, including reports, flyers, brochures, and correspondence; materials relating to Southeast Asian refugees in general, including government reports, magazine & newspaper articles, camp newsletters, Orderly Departure Program information
• Nhu-Ngoc T. Ong:
  Programs for "A Music Program Introducing Hoang Viet Khanh Songs Collection," sponsored by the Mosaic Cultural Encounter, March 10, 2002, CSU Fullerton; and "Reproducing Gender in Contemporary Vietnam & Diasporic Spaces" conference, UCLA, April 12-13, 2002; flyer for May 4, 2002 "Mother- hood" event at CSU Fullerton, featuring an art exhibit by Nguyen Thi Hop & Nguyen Dong and poetry by Trangdai Tranguyen; Viet Anh Club photography exhibition brochure, April 13-14, 2002, Santa Ana; Thai women in Buddhism, by Chatsumarm Kabilsingh (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1991).
• Dr. Mark E. Pfeifer:
  U.S. census 2000:Trends in Hmong population distribution across the regions of the United States (St. Paul: Hmong Cultural Center, 2001)'
• Kate Khanh Pham:
  Her senior thesis, (Re) constructing histories, (Re) presenting identity: Anti-Communism in the Vietnamese American community. Lewis and Clark College, 2001.
• Nguyen Ngoc Bich:
  Radio logs and cassette tapes of Radio Free Asia Vietnamese broadcasts, January & February 2001.
• Megan Tanaka:
  Her paper: Does freedom of speech trump the imperative to remember? The 1999 Little Saigon protest, American Studies 502T, Spring 2001, CSU Fullerton.
• Thua Phong:
  Bang Tho #6, audio cassette of poetry presented by vocalists and musicians in Viet Nam, 1999.
• Van Nghe Publishers:
  Their 2002 publications: Huyet tuyet:10 truyen va 10 chuyen, by Vo Dinh; Song tu truong II, by Thuy Khue; Van hoc hien dai va hau hien dai qua thuc tien sang tac va goc nhin ly thuyet, by Hoang Ngoc-Tuan.
• Teri Shaffer Yamada:
  Virtual lotus: Modern fiction of Southeast Asia, edited by Teri Shaffer Yamada. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002).

There are a number of publishers of magazines, journals, and newsletters who donate their publications to the Southeast Asian Archive on a regular basis. A big "Thank You" goes to the donors of the following titles: Bach Hop (Vietnamese Professionals Society, Carmichael, CA); The Bridge (SEARAC, Washington, D.C.); Dan Chu & Phat Trien (Hiep Hoi Dan Chu & Phat Trien Viet Nam, Warstein, Germany); Duoc Tu Bi (Hoa Hao Buddhist Church, Santa Fe Springs, CA); Hiep Nhat (Santa Ana, CA); Hop Luu (Garden Grove, CA); Huong Van (Tran Si Lam, Westminster, CA); Indochina Chronology (The Vietnam Center, Lubbock, TX); Newsletter of the Hmong Cultural Center Resource Center (St. Paul, MN); Nguoi Dan (Costa Mesa, CA); Nguoi Viet Weekly English Section (Westminster, CA); Satjadham and Lao Vision; Suu Tam; Ban Tin Nguoi Viet Hai Ngoai (Nguyen Xuan Son, Fairport,NY); Thailand Monitor (Institute of Asian Studies, Chula- longkorn University Bangkok); Van (San Jose, CA); Van Hoa (Ly Kien Truc, Westminster, CA); Van Hoc (Garden Grove, CA); Viet Nam Dan Chu (Garden Grove, CA)

Sincere thanks to all our donors. Our apologies to anyone inadvertently not acknowledged here

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Summer Schedule

The Southeast Asian Archive's summer schedule will begin the week of June 10. From June 10 to September 23 the hours will be 1:00-5:00, Monday-Friday, and by appointment. The Archive will be closed on Saturdays. We will resume our Saturday schedule of 1:00-5:00 on September 28.

Anne Frank will be away from the library June 20-July 19. During this time the Archive will be open its regular hours and will be staffed by student assistants. For appointments or questions about the Archive during this time period, please contact the Department of Special Collections, (949) 824-7227, spcoll@uci.edu.

Southeast Asian/American Classes (Fall Quarter 2002)

• AsianAm 151D: Vietnamese American Experience
  Wed. 6:00-8:50 PM, HH 262
  D.C. Phaïm
• Vietnamese 1A: Fundamentals of Vietnamese
  M-F, 8:00, 9:00, HOB2, T. Tran; 2:00, SSTR 101
  M.T. Tran
• Vietnamese 2A: Intermediate Vietnamese
  M-F, 8:00, HH226, M. T. Tran; 10:00, SSTR 100
  T. Tran
• Vietnamese 3A: Advanced Vietnamese
  M-Th, 9:00, CS 249
  M.T. Tran

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UCI Southeast Asian Student Groups

• Cambodian Student Organization (CSO):
  Meets Wednesdays, 5:00 PM, HH112.
  Contact Helene Huoth, (949) 823-9971; cambo@uci.edu;
  http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/cambo
• Hmong Student Association:
  Contact: Yeng Moua, (949) 387-5605; ymoua@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
• Vietnamese American Coalition at UCI (VAC):
  Meets Tuesdays, 7:00 PM, Emerald Bay C.
  Contact: Newton Hoang, (714) 658-1091; vac@uci.edu;
  www.sowku.com/vac
• Vietnamese Student Association (VSA):
  Meets Thursdays, 6:00 PM, Salt Creek A&B.
  Contact: Anh-Hong Thi Nguyen, (714) 832-8371; vsa@uci.edu
  http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/vsa

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Laotian American Conference

"Bringing Together Our Common Voices Through Literature and Activism" is the theme of the 7th annual Satjadham conference, which will take place on Saturday, June 29 at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, CA. Featured will be a reading and Q&A session with T.C. Huo, author of A thousand wings and The land of smiles, presentations on Lao classical literature, poetry and music, youth activism, and national advocacy. In addition there will be presentations of spoken word, poetry, writing and art from Satjadham. On Saturday evening there is a dinner and evening program featuring poetry, performance and art. Friday evening features a conference kick-off film festival plus discussions with the filmmakers at UC Berkeley. Additional information and registration are available online at http://sjd7sf.satjadham.neet/sjd7sf/.

Hmong Annotated Bibliography

The annotated bibliography of Hmong-related works: 1996-2001, continues the tradition of publishing bibliographies of materials on the Hmong, begun by the University of Minnesota's Refugee Studies Center in1983 and continued through 1996. Compiled by Dr. Mark E. Pfeifer, Executive Director of the Hmong Cultural Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, this bibliography contains almost 300 entries, and includes journal articles, dissertations and theses, monographs, videos, and websites. It covers topics on the Hmong in Asia as well as in the United States.

A spiral-bound paper copy is available for $15, including shipping and handling, from the Hmong Cultural Center, 995 University Ave., Suite 214, St. Paul, MN 55104; a printable PDF file is available for $10 at the Center's website, http://www.hmongstudies.org/.

New Book

Twelve survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime who remained in Cambodia after the genocide tell their stories in Soul survivors: Stories of women and children in Cambodia, by Carol Wagner. Two additional personal narratives are by refugees who came to the United States as orphans, but later returned to Cambodia to help their homeland. Other chapters give back- ground on Cambodia's history and current conditions. The book is illustrated with 65 photographs by Valentina DuBasky. Soul survivors was published this year by Creative Arts Book Company in Berkeley, CA. Contact the publisher at staff@creativeartsbooks.com; 800/848-7789 (phone); 510/848-4844 (fax). Price is $15.95.

Call for Papers

The Association for Asian American Studies has issued a call for papers for its 20th annual conference, to be held in San Francisco, May 7-11, 2003. The conference theme is "Manifold Destinies: 35 years of Arts, Advocacy, and the Academy in Asian America." The theme should be interpreted broadly, and proposals are welcomed from artists and community organizers, as well as academics. Send panel/paper proposals to: Secretariat. AAAS, Cornell University, 420 Rockefeller Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2502. Forms and information are available online at: www.aasp.cornell.edu. Deadline for proposals is October 18, 2002.

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Selected Recent Acquisitions

• Bays, Sharon. (1998). What's culture got to do with it? "Cultural Preservation" and Hmong Women's activism in Central California. Transforming Anthropology, 7(2), 35-45. Journal Articles and Book Chapters File A male-dominated public policy process leads to the creation of the Asian American Women's Advancement Coalition by Hmong, Lao, Lahu Mien , and non-Laotian women in Central California's Tulare County.
• Bong-Wright, Jackie. (2001). Autumn cloud: From Vietnamese war widow to American Activist. Sterling, VA: Capitol Books. E184 V53 W758 2001 SE Asian Archive Personal story of a Vietnamese refugee, covering her privileged life in Vietnam, subsequent flight to the U.S. with her young children in 1975, career as a community activist, and remarriage to an American diplomat.
• Breckon, Lydia Ann. (1999). The other side: Ethnic and transnational identity among Khmer Americans in southern New England. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University. F75 K45 B74 199a Southeast Asian Archive Analyzes Khmer ethnic identity through examination of the intertwined processes of the construction of Khmer identity in the U.S. and transnational relationships with Cambodia.
• Hein, Jeremy & Berger, Randall R. (2001). Legal adaptation among Vietnamese refugees in the United States: How international migrants litigate civil grievances during the resettlement process. International Migration Review 35(2), 420-448. Journal Articles & Book Chapters File Uses state and federal civil cases to analyze the legal adaptation of Vietnamese refugees from 1975-1994. Finds that civil suits with a Vietnamese plaintiff and a native defendant tended to occur earlier than the opposite.
• Hinton, Devon Emerson. (1999). Musical healing and cultural syndromes in Isan: Landscape, conceptual metaphor and embodiment. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University. ML3920 H56 1999a SE Asian Archive Investigates the traditional musical healing of Laotian-speaking people in Northeastern Thailand. Focuses on one village medium and her healing practices involving singing, dancing, and the sound of the kaen, a pipe instrument.
• Higgins, James & Ross, Joan. (1997). Fractured identities: Cambodia's children of war. Lowell, MA: Loom Press. E184 K45 H58 1997 Southeast Asian Archive Continues the life stories of some of the young people pictured on the cover of the authors' earlier book, Southeast Asians: A new beginning in Lowell (F74 L9 H58 1986)
• Nguyen, Natalie Huynh Nguyen. (1993). Between East and West: A study of selected works by Vietnamese Francophone writers from 1930 to 1990. Ph.D dissertation, University of Oxford. PQ3977 V5 N58 1993a SE Asian Archive Focuses on four primary themes: 1) the influence of Kim Van Kieu on modern novels; 2) portrayal of women; 3) nature of interracial relationships; 4) alienation within the self and one's environment.
• Paj Ntaub Voice, vol. 6:1 (Fall 1999). St. Paul: Center for Hmong Arts and Talent. E184 H55 P37 Southeast Asian Archive Literary arts journal focusing on Hmong arts and culture. The theme of this issue is "Gender and Identity."
• Stevens, Christine A. (2001). Perspectives on the meanings of symptoms among Cambodian refugees. Journal of Sociology 37(1), 81-98. Journal Articles & Book Chapters File Examines the meaning of selected symptoms such as sleeping problems, pain, headaches, and memory loss among a group of 150 Cambodians aged 20 to 75 years in South Australia.
• White, Jeanne C.V. (2000). "How can I make it here?" The adaptation to rural American life by Lao refugee women. Ed.D. dissertation, University of Georgia. F220 L27 W46 2000a SE Asian Archive Asks what were the influential factors and what strategies were used in examining how lowland Lao refugee women learned their adoptive culture.
• Yang, Kou. (2001). Research note: The Hmong in America: Twenty-five years after the U.S. secret war in Laos. Journal of Asian American Studies. 4(2), 165-174. Journal Articles & Book Chapters File Gives an overview of the Hmong in the United States and discusses key community leaders.
• Zhou, Min & Blankston, Carl III. (2001). Family pressure and the educational experience of the daughters of Vietnamese refugees. International Migration, 39(4), 133-151. Journal Articles & Book Chapters File Analyzes the school experience of female Vietnamese high school students in Louisiana and the place gender roles play in educational achievement.

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