The Vietnamese American 1.5 generation : stories of war, revolution, flight, and new beginnings / edited by Sucheng Chan ; with contributions by students at the University of California.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Sucheng.

Series:

Asian American history and culture.

Asian American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnamese Americans--Biography.

Vietnamese Americans.

Refugees--United States--Biography.

Refugees.

Refugees--Vietnam--Biography.

Vietnam--History--20th century.

Vietnam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Vietnamese American one point five generation

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The conflict that Americans call the ""Vietnam War"" was only one of many incursions into Vietnam by foreign powers. However, it has had a profound effect on the Vietnamese people who left their homeland in the years following the fall of Saigon in 1975. Collected here are fifteen first-person narratives written by refugees who left Vietnam as children and later enrolled as students at the University of California, where they studied with the well-known scholar and teacher Sucheng Chan. She has provided a comprehensive introduction to their autobiographical accounts, which succinctly encompass

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Vietnamese Names; Part I: Historical Overview; Chapter 1. Vietnam before the Mid-nineteenth Century; Chapter 2. French Colonial Rule and Vietnamese Resistance; Chapter 3. Communism and Nationalism; Chapter 4. The 1945 August Revolution; Chapter 5. The First Indochina War; Chapter 6. The American Involvement in Vietnam; Chapter 7. The Fall of Saigon and Its Aftermath; Chapter 8. The Plight of the Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam; Chapter 9. An International Refugee Crisis; Chapter 10. Ending the Indochinese Refugee Exodus

Part II: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New BeginningsChapter 11. A Tragedy: From Vietnam to America; Chapter 12. A Journey Called Freedom; Chapter 13. My Autobiography; Chapter 14. How It Feels to Be an Asian American; Chapter 15. Integrity through Change; Chapter 16. A Place to Call Home; Chapter 17. The Coming of Age of a Chinese-Vietnamese American; Chapter 18. My Father and I; Chapter 19. The Pain in My Heart; Chapter 20. The Never-Ending Struggle; Chapter 21. An Unfinished Journey; Chapter 22. From Vietnam to Germany to the United States; Chapter 23. Vietnam Memories in America

Chapter 24. My Transition to Being an Asian AmericanChapter 25. At That Time in My Life; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Selected Videography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-304) and index.

Includes videography: p. [305]-307.

ISBN:

9786611093747

9781281093745

1281093742

9781592135028

1592135021

OCLC:

437182583