The Vietnamese American 1.5 generation [[electronic resource] ] : stories of war, revolution, flight, and new beginnings / / edited by Sucheng Chan ; with contributions by students at the University of California
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| Titolo: |
The Vietnamese American 1.5 generation [[electronic resource] ] : stories of war, revolution, flight, and new beginnings / / edited by Sucheng Chan ; with contributions by students at the University of California
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973/.04959200922 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Vietnamese Americans |
| Refugees - United States | |
| Refugees - Vietnam | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Vietnam History 20th century |
| Altri autori: |
ChanSucheng
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-304) and index. |
| Includes videography: p. [305]-307. | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Vietnamese American one point five generation |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Vietnamese American 1.5 generation |
| ISBN: | 1-281-09374-2 |
| 9786611093747 | |
| 1-59213-502-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784274903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Asian American history and culture.