Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter
Spring 1996, Volume 5, number 3
Editor: Anne Frank
Recent Gifts
Dr. Frederick J. Baker: His 1994 study: A Philosophy
of Teacher Education for the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
JoAn Criddle: 1996 updated edition of her To Destroy
You is No Loss.
Denise Do: Materials concerning the Cao Dai religion from
the Cao Dai Temple Overseas, Perris, California.
Rachel G. Gill: March-April 1996 issue of MissionsUSA,
which contains her article, "God promised a miracle,"
on the Lahu community in Visalia, California.
Kim Ha: Van But Viet-Nam Hai-Ngoai; Ky-yeu Dai-Ho ky
V California (11.95) va Texas (2.96); February and March 1996
issues of Tin Van Cali, the Vietnamese Overseas PEN Southern Chapter's
newsletter.
Le Tan Huynh: Duyen Hac Le Thai At, Ngon Ngu Viet Nam,
1996.
Le Xuan Khoa: Laos: Economic Transition from Centrally
Planned to Free Market Inventory, by Khammany Mathavongsy,
1996.
Linh Quang Vien: Hoi Nguoi Viet Cao Nien Vung Hoa Thinh
Don, Dac San Xuan Binh Ty 1996.
Michael J. Nally: Nguoi Viet The Gioi = Viet & World
Magazine, April 1994; articles from the Nguot Viet;
material about his screenplay, Trudy; and photographs of
the East West Players production of And the Soul Shall Dance.
Khiem Nguyen: program for VAB Expo 95 (Vietnamese American
Business Expo, USA'95, Orange County, CA).
Darlene Nguyen-Ely: "A Celebration of Vietnamese Art,"
catalog for exhibition at California State University, Long Beach,
April 15-19, 1996.
Dr. Ky Ba Phan: Hoi Than-Huu Luc-Luong Dac-Biet Viet-Nam,
Xuan Binh-Ty, 1996; The Secrets of King Midas: Testimonies
of the People of Vietnam on the Vietnamese Socialist Regime from
1975-1992, by Tran An Binh, with Gilbert B. Layton, 1995.
Prany Sananikone: "State of the Regions," handout
for a presentation on the Hmong in Wisconsin, by Minerva Coyne,
and Scott Jones, at the NAFEA Conference, New Orleans, April 1996.
Thanong Sithisombath: Laovangmai, September 15, 1995;
Phendin Lao Monthly News (Garden Grove, CA), September 1995;
Laopenkao, the newsletter of the Maha Sila Viravong Library
Project, February & March, 1996; Lao Pen Khao, Books
on Lao Club newsletter, issues 8-10, 1995; publication of the
Lao United Freedom Organization (Rochester, N.Y.), 46:6, 1992.
Hoang Tran: two articles for the "Rethinking Confucianism
in Asia" conference, UCLA April 1995: "Vietnamese Confucianism
as the orphan of international Confucian studies" by Alexander
Woodside, and "Confucianism in Vietnamese formations of tradition
and modernity," by K.W. Taylor.
Van Nghe Publishers: Thu Gu I Ban Ta, by Bui Bao
Truc, 1995; Truyen Mien Nam, tap 2, Tho Mien Nam,
tap 2 & 3, 1995; Ky-But-Kich Mien Nam, tap 2, 1995,
by Vo Phien; Viet Cho Me & Quoc Hoi, by Nguyen Van
Tran, 1995.
Linh Duy Vo: His Dear Daddy, Poetry, 1995, and accompanying
newspaper articles and photographs.
World Vision: Nien Giam: Moc Su Quan Nhiem Cac Hoi Thanh
Viet Nam Hai Ngoai =Vietnamese Pastors and Christian Workers Overseas
Directory, October 1995.
Sincere thanks to all our donors for their continued support.
Starting Tuesday, May 28
New Location
273 Science Library
SEA Archive Moves (Temporarily!)
UC Irvine's Langson Library will undergo an earthquake retrofit and
renovation project beginning in June 1996. As a result, the Langson Library will be closed during Summer 1996, and all Langson Library
staff and services, and selected parts of the collection will
be temporarily relocated to the Science Library. The Langson Library
collection will be accessible in the Fall quarter. However, most
services and staff (including the Southeast Asian Archive) will
return to the Langson Library in time for the beginning of Winter
Quarter 1997.
Saturday, May 25 is the scheduled moving day for the Southeast
Asian Archive. Its new location will be Room 273, Science Library,
which it will share with the Department of Special Collections.
The Archive is fortunate in that all of its cataloged materials,
serials collection, newspaper clipipings, conference papers, and
journal articles files will be moved to the Science Library and
available for use.
Full service will resume on Tuesday, May 28. During the Spring
Quarter and the Summer the Archive will be open Monday-Friday,
1:00-5:00, and by appointment. Anne Frank will be away from the
Library, May 28-June 2. Assistance will be provided by the Archive's
student assistants and Special Collections staff.
Hours will be extended during the Fall Quarter. At that time the
Southeast Asian Archive will be open 1:00-5:00 on Saturday afternoons
as well.
Come and visit the Archive in its temporary location, especially
all you Bio majors who hang out in the Science Library. Discover
the Southeast Asian Archive!
Southeast Asian Student Groups at UCI
Cambodian Student Organization: Meets every other Wednesday,
6:00 PM. SS I, Room 203. Contact: Seanglong Te, 832-9336.
Hmong Student Organization: Meets Thursdays, 6:00 PM, Salt
Creek A. Contact: Ya Her, 733-1095.
Laotian-Thai Cultural Club: Meets Mondays, 5:00, Cross
Cultural Center. Contact: June Ithivongsuphakit, 509-0573.Project
Ngoc: Meets Wednesdays, 6:30 PM, HH 226. Contact: Thuy-Vinh Tran,
994-0411.
Vietnamese American Coalition: Meets Wednesdays, 5:00 PM,
HH 210. Contact: Phuong Pamela Pham, 714/554-0346.
Vietnamese Student Association: Meets Tuesdays, 5:00, HH
262. Contact: Pauline Le, 775-6342.
New Date for VASC at UCI
It's not too late to participate in the 1996 Vietnamese American
Student Conference. The date has been changed to Sunday, May 26,
and it will take place at the UCI Student Center, 8:00 AM-7:00
PM. Presented by the Vietnamese American Coalition at UCI, the
theme of the conference is "Navigating the Future: A Gathering
to Remember and Continue the Work of Our Mothers." More information
and registration form are enclosed in this newsletter .
VSA presents Van Nghe 1996
UCI's Vietnamese Student Association will hold its annual cultural
night, "Dem Van Nghe Ket Hop" on Saturday, May 11,
6:30 PM, at the Bren Events Center on the UCI campus. The
theme, "Unity: The Strength Between Schools and Community,"
will target the growing problem of youth violence. Proceeds will
go towards funding the 1996 VSA High School Scholarship and Youth
Tutoring Program at St. Anselm's Cross Cultural Community Center.
Both the traditional and modern will be featured - skits, singing,
instrumental performances, dances, and fashion shows . Tickets
are $3.00 for UCI students and faculty, $5.00 for others . Call
714/824-5000. There will be a Unity Dance after the show, 9:00-12:00;
college ID or drivers license required..
Spring Quarter Classes
Dr. Tri Dinh Tran, Student Recommended Faculty Professor for 1995-1996,
is offering three classes this Spring quarter in Vietnamese and
Vietnamese American Studies :
East Asian 18: "Masterpieces of Vietnamese Literature, "
Tu-Th, 11:00-12:20.
Soc Sci 189J: "Vietnamese American Identity," Tu-Th
,12:30-1:50, ICF 102.Soc.
Sci. 189L: "Vietnamese American Community," Wed., 6:00-8:00
PM, SS 228.
It has been a great pleasure to have Professor Tran at UCI. We
will miss him.
The "Vietnamese American Experience"
The "Vietnamese American Experience," (Soc. Sci 178D),
has been accepted as an elective in the Asian American Studies
program. It also satisfies the multicultural requirement. The
class will be offered this Summer and in the Fall.
Summer Session Class
Robert Hayden will again offer the "Vietnamese American Experience"
(Soc. Sci 189), during Summer Session I, June 24 - August 1, CS
208.
Course Description: An introduction to the study of Vietnamese
American history, beginning with the historical antecedents of
Vietnam to current life experiences in America. The class will
be interactive, with discussion playing a central role in each
class period. Each week will include geography exercises, videos,
readings and discussion.
Reading List:
Vietnam: The Struggle for National Identity, by D. R. Sar
Desai.
Family Tightrope: The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans,
by Nazli Kibria.
Once Upon a Dream: The Vietnamese American Experience,
by De Tran, Andrew Lam & Hai Dai Nguyen.
The Dream Shattered: Vietnamese Gangs in America, by Patrick
Du Phuoc Long.
Videos under consideration for viewing:
From Hollywood to Hanoi: Viet Kieu returns to Vietnam.
Rescue Mission on the South China Seas: Boat people.
The Story of Vinh: Amerasians.
Bui Doi: Life Like Dust: Vietnamese gangs.
Monterey's Boat People: Vietnamese fisherman.
Vietnam: At the Crossroads: Opening of Vietnam.
Living in Exile: Montagnards from Vietnam living in North
Carolina.
Fall Quarter Class
The "Vietnamese American Experience" (Soc. Sci. 178D)
will be offered in Fall Quarter by Professor Pham Cao Duong. The
class will take place on Tuesday evenings.
Course Description: An introduction to the study of the
Vietnamese in America from the exodus of this new group of Asian
Americans from Southeast Asia after the Vietnam War to their resettlement
in the United States. Topics such as wars and revolution in Vietnam,
the different waves of Vietnamese refugees, admission and resettlement,
adjustment to new life, the Vietnamese community, Vietnamese American
literature and poetry, etc. will be discussed.
Reading List:
Hearts of Sorrow, by James Freeman.
Understanding Vietnam, by Neil J. Jamieson.
The Vietnamese Experience in America, by Paul J. Rutledge.
California Refugee Awareness Month
May is California Refugee Awareness Month. Refugee resettlement
organizations throughout the State will be holding local events
to recognize the achievements of individual refugees and refugee
organizations to educate the public on the contributions and history
of California's refugee population. The Refugee Forum of Orange
County is sponsoring Orange County Refugee Day on Friday, June
7, Garden Grove Community Center, 9:00-12:00 AM. For more information
contact Loc Nguyen, phone 714/839-4441; fax 714/839-6668 or Anne
Frank, phone 714/824-4968, fax 824-2542.
Upcoming Conferences
The National Association for Asian & Pacific American Education
(NAAPAE), in ccoperation with the University of California
and the California Department of Education, will hold its 18th
annual national conference at the San Francisco Airport Westin
Hotel, May 22-26, 1996. The theme is "APA Education: Language
and Culture in the Age of Information." Included will be
a panel, "Research in Southeast Asian Refugee Education in
the U.S.," focusing on sociocultural/linguistic aspects of
schooling of Southeast Asian refugee students from K-12 to higher
education. For registration information contact: Janet Lu, c/o
ARC Associates 1212 Broadway, Suite 400, Oakland, CA 94612; phone
510/834-9455; fax 510/763-1490.
The Association for Asian American Studies will hold its
13th annual national conference in Washington, D.C., May 29-June
2, 1996. Papers to be presented include the following:
"Experiencing Gender Life Decisions Among Southeast Asian
Refugee Adolescents," by Nancy Lee Koschmann
"The Asian Model Minority Myth and Ethnic Identity: Female
Lao College Students," by Wanni W. Anderson
"Eclectic Voices: A Comparative Analysis Between Children
Survivor Writings of the Cambodian 'Killing Fields' and the Holocaust,"
by Manhao Chhor.
"Southeast Asians and Southeast Asian Americans and Poverty,"
by Cuong Quy Huynh.
For registration information contact: AAAS, c/o Cornell University,
425 Caldwell Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2602; phone 607/255-3320;
fax 607/254-4996; apal@cornell.edu.
Our Time Seeks Writers
OurTime3 is seeking contributions for its third edition
of writings and photography by Asian American students. If interested
contact Richard Sheehan at g6226rshee@umbsky.cc.umb.edu, or write
to him at the Institute for Asian American Studies, UMass Boston,
100 Morrissey B;vd., Boston, MA 02125-3393. Our Time 1-2
is in the SEA Archive's collection (PS508 A8 O87 1995 Southeast
Asian Archive.)
The UCI Library Southeast Asian Archive was founded in 1987 to
document the experiences of refugees and immigrants from Cambodia,
Laos, and Vietnam who have come to the United States since the
end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
Donations of materials and funds are enthusaistically accepted.
Material from Southeast Asian individuals and organizations (e.g.,
newsletters, documents, personal stories, correspondence, reports,
books photographs, etc.) are particularly welcomed.
The Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter is issued three times during
the academic year. It is available also on the Archive's WWW site,
Http://pitcairn.lib.uci.edu/sea/seahome.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, 92713-9557; 714/824-4968 (phone); 714/824-5740 (fax);
afrank@uci.edu NOTE: ZIP CODE CHANGES TO 92623-9557 AS OF JULY
1.
Selected Recent Acquisitions
Canda, Edward R. (1992). Buddhism as a support system for Southeast
Asian refugees. Social Work 37(1), 61-67.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Examines ways in which Buddhist services serve the needs of Lao
and Khmer refugees in the Midwestern U.S.
Dinh, Khanh T., Sarason, Barbara R. & Sarason, Irwin G. (1994).
Parent-child relationships in Vietnamese immigrant families.
Journal of Family Psychology 8(4), 471-488.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Assesses views of Vietnamese-born and American-born university
students and their parents on their parental relationships and
personal characteristics.
Eisenbruch, M. (1994). Mental health and the Cambodian traditional
healer for refugees who resettled, were repatriated or internally
displaced, and for those who stayed at home. Collegium Antropologicum
18(2), 219-230.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Discusses the importance of access to cultural healing practitioners
such as Buddhist monks and kruu (healers) for treatment pf psychiatric
and physical illnesses and as a protection against cultural loss.
From the Classroom to the Community: A Fifteen Year Experiment
in Refugee Education. (1995). Edited by Donald A. Ranard &
Margo Pfleger. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics;
McHenry, IL: Delta Systems.
LC3737 A785 F76 1995 Southeast Asian Archive
Discusses the intensive English language and cultural orientation
programs in Thailand and the Phillipines that prepared Southeast
Asian refugees living in camps for resettlement in the United
States.
Helsel, Deborah Gail. (1993). "Here There is Much More
and Much Less": Hmong American Families, Culture and Childbearing
in the "Land of the Giants." Ph.D. University of
California, San Francisco.
E184 H55 H45 1993a Southeast Asian Archive
Analyzes interview data from adult and adolescent Hmong Americans
as to their future intentions in regards to marriage and childbearing.
Hur, Mann Hyung. (1990). Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Study
of Southeast Asian Refugees in Colorado. Ph.D., University
of Colorado at Denver.
HV640.5 A785 H87 1990a Southeast Asian Archive
Uses quantitative techniques in its analysis of previous job skills,
utilization & effectiveness of service programs, combined
with factors such as age, gender, marital status and family type
in examining achievement patterns for Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao
and Hmong refugees.
Lynch, Annette, Detzner, Daniel F., & Eicher, Joanne B. (1995).
Hmong American New Year rituals: generational bonds through dress.
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal 13(2), 111-120.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
The use of dress in two different New Year's celebrations is analyzed
as a means of expressing the struggle for reconciliation between
the traditional Hmong culture of the elders and the new American
culture of the youth.
Mayer-Rieckh, Elisabeth. (1993). Beyond concrete and steel:
power relations and gender: the case of Vietnamese women in the
detention centres in Hong Kong. The Hague: Publications Office,
Institute of Social Studies.
HV640.5 V5 M39 1993 Southeast Asian Archive
Considers the often violent treatment of Vietnamese women in dentention
centers as a result of their gender identity and cultural norms
regarding women, as well as a result of the nature of institutions
set up for asylum seekers.
McKelvey, Robert S & Webb, John A. (1995). A pilot study of
abuse among Vietnamese Amerasians. Child Abuse and Neglect
19(5), 545-553.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Studies physical and sexual abuse and accompanying psychological
distress among male and female Vietnamese Amerasians at the Philippine
Refugee Processing Center.
Nhat-Hanh, Thich. (1993). Hermitage Among the Clouds. Berkeley:
Parallax Press.
PL4378.9 N55 A813 1993 Southeast Asian Archive
A historical novel of 14th century Vietnam.
Once Upon a Dream: The Vietnamese American Experience.
(1995). Edited by De Tran, Andrew Lam, and Hai Dai Nguyen. Kansas
City: Andrews and McMeel.
E184 V53 O53 1995 Southeast Asian Archive
Illustrated anthology of essays, memoirs, short stories, and poems
about post-1975 Vietnamese American life.
Pfeffer, Max J. (1994). Low-wage employment and ghetto poverty:
a comparison of African American and Cambodian day-haul farm workers
in Philadelphia. Social Problems 41(1), 9-29.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Investigates the reasons for the replacement of African American
workers with Cambodian refugees in the 1980s.
Southeast Asian Archive Hours
Monday-Friday, 1:00-5:00or by appointment
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