Southeast Asian Archive Newsletter

Winter Quarter 1999, Volume 8, No. 2

Recent Gifts

Megan Berthold: Statistics and graphics from the 1998 CSU Long Beach study "The effects of violence among Khmer and Central American youth."

Mitchell Bonner: Newspaper clippings from the San Francisco Chronicle and Asianweek, periodicals, photographs, & ephemera from the San Francisco bay area, including program and flyer for "Mien ghost tales and other ceremonies;" flyer for the Lao band "Thunder."

Tung Thanh Cao: Hmong kenh (musical instrument) from Vietnam.

Carol Chai: Materials relating to Buddhism: Bo De Hai (Sept./Oct. 1998); Hoa Sen Ngay Xuan, by Hoa Thuoïng Tuyen Hoa (Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1998); Hoa Sen Ngay Xuan, by Hoa Thuong Tuyen Hoa (Dharma Realm Buddhist Association, n.d.); Khai Thò, by Hoa Tuonïg Tuyen Hoa (Dharma Realm Buddhist Association, n.d.)

Cao Minh Chong: Thu muïc nghien cuu Dong Nam A (Ha Noi, 1998); 25 nam nghien cuu cac nuoc Dong Nam A (Ha Noi, 1998)

Hien Giang: "Ve vang dan Viet = A Vietnamese echo," program for Vietnamese Culture Night, UC Riverside, January 16, 1999; "Niem uoc vong = Promise," program for Vietnamese Culture Night, UCLA, January 17, 1999.

Kim Ha: Nineteen Vietnamese language books. Titles available upon request.

Linda Kahn: Newspaper articles concerning Father Joe Devlin.

Khoa Van Le: His music scores Dan ca Viet Nam=Vietnamese folk songs (1996); Giang sinh ca=Christmas songs (1997); Goi nho, ca khuc nghe thuat=Vietnamese art songs (1997); Nhac Viet men yeu=My beloved Vietnamese music book (1996); Hat cho ngay mai, doan khuc cho tuoi tre hom nay=Children's songs (1982); Duong vao nhiep anh cho nguoi tu hoc / Ngo Thanh Tung (1998?); brochures for VAALA "Decorative photography exhibition;" two books by Dr. Pham Kim Vinh, White papers on today's Vietnam (1996), and Vietnam, a comprehensive history (1992).

Khoa Xuan Le: "Thank you America" November 1998 program celebrating the first twenty years of the Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (SEARAC).

Luc Van Le: VASPES'96 conference proceedings, Vietnamese-American contributions in science & technology in the past twenty years.

Brigitte Marshall: Phanat Nikhom [refugee camp] Press (nos. 12-20, May 1991-June 1992).

Nguoi Dan: An oc noi mo, / Hon Hoang, 1998.

Derick Tuan Nguy & Vangiao Phaïm: Their paper for the Fall 1998 Vietnamese American Experience class, "Premarital sex among collegiate students of Vietnamese ancestry."

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

Nguyen Hung Cuong: SEARC The Bridge (special issue, July-Aug. 1998; 1998 year in review); IRAC The Bridge (vols. 4:2-4, 1987-1988; 8:1-2, 1991; 9:1, 1992; 10, 1993; 14:1-4,1997).

Hieu Nguyen: Non Song (Dec. 1998); 16 truyen ngan chon loc / Non Song magazine.

Khuong X. Nguyen: Giao Diem (no.,31, Dec. 1998); Hoa Sen (no. 35, Oct. 1998); Duc Me (nos. 147-149, Oct.-Dec. 1998); Nguyet San Duc Me Hang Cuu Giup (no.150, Jan. 1999); Nguyet San Giac Ngo (nos. 29-33, Aug.-Dec. 1998); Phap Bao (no. 51, August 1998); Phat Giao Hai Ngoai (no.15); Phat-Giao Viet-Nam (no. 105, Sept. 1998); Tuan Bao Giac Ngo (nos. 125-137, 140-145, Aug.-1998-Jan. 1999); Vien Giac (no. 106-107, Aug.-Oct. 1998); Kim van Kieu (video).

Mai Nguyen: Her novel about a Vietnamese Amerasian girl, Little Daisy (1993).

Darlene Nguyen Ely: Festival of Vietnamese Arts (Toronto, Ontario,) exhibition catalog; postcards of her recent work and exhibitions.

Quang X. Phaïm: His op-ed pieces, "Honoring the men who died for my freedom," Wall Street Journal (Nov. 11, 1998); "Mourning a man of vision," [Walter Capps] Los Angeles Times (Nov. 9, 1997), Ventura County ed.; "Many are called, but few are chosen to be officers in the Marines," Washington Times (March 25, 1994); his essay, "A Viet-Kieu's homecoming" (April 30, 1995); related newspaper articles.

June Pulcini: International Voluntary Services: "Twentieth anniversary" publication (1973); The Reporter (Summer/Fall 1975).

Thanong Sithisombath: Payot khong vannakhadi / Maha Sila Viravong (Vientiane, 1996).

Rev. Long P. Tran: His works Ky yeu Phat Diem 1881-1991 (1992); Nhung trai cui Viet Nam (1993).

Nancy Tran: Materials relating to the poet Nguyen Sa, including his publications: Tac gia va tac pham (1991), Giac mo, truyen dai(1991-1992), Tho(1995-1998), Hoi Ky (1998), Vai ngay lam viec o chung su vu (199-?); compact disc Tu nhaïc hoa lan #1, tho Nguyen Sa (1995); Doi magazine, (nos. 21, 1984 & 33, 1985); Dan Chung newspaper (Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, 1997 issues); Dan Chung Vietnamese National Business Directory, 1997; program for his funeral (April 22, 1998); excerpts from Understanding Vietnam (pp. 249-250, 318-320.)

Dr. Tran Si Lam: Huong Van, vol. 4 (Dec. 1998).

Van Nghe Publishers: Duong may trong coi mong / Dai Su Ham Son (1998); Einstein, doi song va tu tuong /Nguyen Hieu Le (1998); Hanh trinh cuoi dong / Tieu Dao Bao Cu (1998); Mau tim / Alice Walker (1998); Mien tho au, hoi ky / Vu Tu Hien (1998); Nhung giot mua tren gian bong giay / Nguyen Hung Vu (1998),õ Nhung huyen thoai & su that ve che do Ngo Dinh Diem / Vinh Phuc (1998) Ong gia va bien ca / Ernest Hemingway (1998); Tim em trong nang thu vang / Nguyen Hung Vu (1998); Viet Nam dan toc bò doa day / Ly Dai Nguyen (1998).

Dr. Vang Pobzeb: Correspondence, brochures, press releases, & newspaper articles concerning the activities of the Lao Human Rights Council; Hmong Tribune (Aug. 24, 1998 issue).

Linh Duy Vo: His book of poems, Dear Daddy (1995).

Professor Min Zhou: Her book with Carl L. Bankston III, Growing up American: how Vietnamese children adjust to life in the United States (1998).

A special "thank you" to the following persons who made donations to support the Southeast Asian Archive on the occasion of the opening reception for the "Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience" exhibit.

We are deeply grateful to all our donors for their interest and support.

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SEA Archive Winter Quarter Hours

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UCI Lunar New Year Festival

The Year of the Cat/Rabbit will be celebrated at UCI at the third annual Lunar New Year Festival on Wednesday, February 24. Featured will be a dragon dance, fashion show, traditional dances, food and game booths. Chancellor Ralph Cicerone will give opening remarks, and the keynote speaker will be Dean of Graduate Studies Frederic Wan. The event will take place at the Student Center - Ring Road from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Come and join the festivities! Chuc Mung Nam Moi!

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SEA Archive Exhibit Continues

The fall 1998 exhibit in the UCI Langson Library's Reynolds Gallery, "Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience," continues through the month of April. More than 100 people from the UCI campus, Southeast Asian communities, and the general public attended the exhibit opening on November 5. Featured as speakers on the program were Professor Emeritus of History Spencer Olin and Professor Pham Cao Duong, Lecturer in Asian American Studies and former Chair of the Archive's Advisory Board.

The exhibit focuses on the holdings of the Southeast Asian Archive and includes publications, works of art, letters, manuscripts, and artifacts. Donors of materials to the Archive are recognized in the exhibit. Copies of the checklist, which contains the exhibit texts and a list of donors to the Archive, are available in the Library or by request to Anne Frank.

"Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience" can be viewed during the hours the 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.

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UCI Southeast Asian Student Groups

• Cambodian Student Organization (CSO): Meets Wednesdays, 5:00 PM HH00. Chair: Sok Rim, 949/429-6082; cambo@uci.edu.

• Hmong Student Association: Meets irregularly. Chair: Porfue Xiong, pxiong@uci.edu; 949/856- 1682.

• Laotian Thai Cultural Club: Meets Mondays, 5:00 PM, Cross-Cultural Center. Chair: Varinda Jinatongthai, ltcc@uci.edu.

• Vietnamese American Coalition (VAC): Meets Thursdays, 7:00 PM, Crescent Bay AB, Co-chairs: Minh Tram Dao and Hao Truong, 714/914-9807; vac@uci.edu.

• Vietnamese Student Association: Meets Thursdays, 6:00 PM, Emerald Bay B. President: Kim Nguyen, 714/406-4315; vsa@uci.edu.

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Southeast Asian /Southeast Asian American Spring Quarter 1999 Classes

• AsianAm 151: U.S.-Vietnam Relations: The Refugee Movement, Tues. 6:00-8:50 PM. Prof. Pham Cao Duong.
• AsianAm 110: South and Southeast Asian American Literature, T-Th 2:00-3:20 PM. Prof. Ketu Katrak.
• AsianAm 150: Religious Traditions of Asian Americans, MWF, 2:00-2:50 PM. Prof. Shampa Mazumdar.
• History 172: Missionaries in Southeast Asia, T-Th 11:00-12:20 PM. Prof. Damon Woods.

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Vietnamese Women Forum (VWF)

The Vietnamese Women Forum is an internet newsgroup that serves as a safe space for academic, artistic, professional and socially conscious women to exchange ideas, information, resources and social concerns that affect Vietnamese women. The forum is restricted to only women, but not exclusively to only Vietnamese members.

For more information please send a message to majordomo@saigon.com. Leave the subject line blank with the message in the body text: info vnwomenforum.

To subscribe to VWF, send a message to major@saigon.com leaving the subject line blank with the message in the body text:

• Subscribe vnwomenforum [your email address]

You will receive a request for conformation from Majordomo. Reply to the request as instructed in the message and you will be added to the list. If you have difficulties contact vwfadmin@saigon.com.

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National History Day Project

The Southeast Asian Archive has been pleased to have on display for the past few months a History Day Project from Kansas, "A Life Torn Apart: The Many Migrations of the Cambodian Peoples." In keeping with the 1998 History Day theme of "Migrations," the project was conceived by Jessica Johnson and Holly Serk, two students at Topeka's Seaman High School. Through photographs and words it documents events in Cambodia beginning in 1967 with the rise of the Khmer Rouge, their reign of terror through 1979, the exodus of refugees from Cambodia, and their resettlement in the United States.

The two students interviewed Cambodian refugees in Long Beach as part of their research, and use quotations from these interviews in their project.

The display was loaned to the Archive by Jessica Johnson's aunt, Janet Hund, who is a Sociology instructor at Long Beach City College.

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Sky is Falling Programs

The Asia Society of Southern California, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Public Library, is sponsoring a "Meet the Author/ Bookreading" program with Gayle Morrison, author of Sky is Falling: an oral history of the CIA's evacuation of the Hmong from Laos. The event will take place Thursday, March 4 in Meeting Room A (1st floor), Los Angeles Public Library, 630 West 5th Street, Los Angeles. Validated parking is available at 400 S. Flower. Please RSVP by Tuesday, March 2 to the Asia Society, 213/624-0945 (phone); 213-624-0158 (fax).

On Wednesday, May 12 Ms. Morrison will be speaking at the UC Irvine Asian American Studies noon program series, co-sponsored by the Cross Cultural Center, and the Southeast Asian Archive. The 12:00 PM lecture will take place at the Cross Cultural Center.

Both events are free and open to the public.

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Selected Recent Acquisitions

Barker, Judith C. and Saechao, Kaochoy. (1997). A household survey of older Iu-Mien refugees in rural California. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 12(2), 121-143.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Analyzes survey results of residents over 60 years old in 183 Iu-Mien households in Merced, California.

Diamond, Catherine. (1997). The Pandora's box of 'Doi Moi': the open-door policy and contemporary theatre in Vietnam. New Theatre Quarterly 13(52), 372-385.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Discusses the effect of foreign influences on traditional theater, (tuong, hat boi and cheo), and theater forms which address contemporary issues, (cai luong, kich noi, and san khau nho).

Directory of non-governmental organizations work- ing in the Lao PDR, March 1994. (1995). New York: The Forum on Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos.
HV00.4 D Southeast Asian Archive
Gives detailed information on non-governmental organizations and descriptions of their projects in Laos.

Do, Vy Trac. (1994). Characteristics of Vietnamese students in community colleges: a case study. Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate School and San Diego State University.
LC3501 V53 D6 1994a Southeast Asian Archive
Studies Vietnamese students at Fullerton College to identify educational needs and whether academic achievement would translate into success in the workplace.

Helzer, Jennifer J. (1994). Continuity and change: Hmong settlement in California's Sacramento Valley.
Journal of Cultural Geography 14(2), 51-64.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Discusses the adaptation of traditional farming practices, belief systems and residential patterns in Northern California Hmong communities.

Johnson, Phyllis J. (1998). Performance of household tasks by Vietnamese and Laotian refugees: tradition and change. Journal of Family Issues 19(3), 245-271.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Gives data and analysis on traditional and present day practices and changes brought about by resettlement.

Morrison, Gayle. (1998). Sky is falling: an oral history of the CIA's evacuation of the Hmong from Laos. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
DS558.6 L3 1999 Southeast Asian Archive
First-hand account of the evacuation of 2500 Hmong and the preceding events that led up to the 14-day May 1975 exodus.

Robinson, W. Courtland. (1998). Terms of refuge: the Indochinese exodus and the international response. New York: St. Martin's Press.
HV640.5 I5 R63 1998 Southeast Asian Archive
A history of the role of international organizations in the flight of refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Smith Hefner, Nancy. (1999). Khmer American: identity and moral education in a diasporic community.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
F73.9 K45 S65 1999 Southeast Asian Archive
Ethnographic study based on long-term research in the Boston Cambodian community.

Tuyen tap hai muoi nam van hoc Viet Nam hai ngoai, 1975-1995. (1995). Glendale, CA: Daïi Nam.
PL4378.5 T885 1995 v.1-2 Southeast Asian Archive
Over 158 overseas Vietnamese are represented in this anthology of literature and art.

U Sam Oeur. (1998). Sacred vows: poetry. Bilingual Khmer and English edition. Translated from Khmer by Ken McCullough and U Sam Oeur. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press.
PL4328.9 U16 S23 1998 Southeast Asian Archive
Poems by a survivor of the Pol Pot regime who now lives in the United States.

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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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