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Title: Oral History of Maria Nga Chau
Creator: Chau, Maria Nga
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2013-03-05
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description: Scope/Content: Oral history of Maria Nga Chau, born in 1945 in Nha Trang, Vietnam to a well-to-do Catholic-raised mother and working-class Confucian-raised father from Hue. She is one of six children. She was sent to school in Da Nang, where she lived in residence with nuns in her childhood until her family relocated to Saigon. She studied to be a veterinarian and ended up teaching the subject between 1968 and 1975. She married a man who was a soldier in the South Vietnamese army. After the communist victory, she was required to teach on agriculture and husbandry while her husband was sent to reeducation camp. After 1977 she did not have any information about her husband, presumed to be dead after an unsuccessful attempt to escape camp. She described the hard years living under communist scrutiny after 1975. In 1991 she and her children were resettled to the United States through the sponsorship of relatives. She worked as a seamstress, then got her cosmetology license and worked in a nail salon.
Scope/Content: Dr. Thuy Vo Dang is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Director for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project (VAOHP) in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine. She earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2008 and was a Fellow at the Institute of American Cultures/Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2009-2010 and a Visiting Scholar from 2010-2011. Her research and teaching specializations include comparative race and ethnic relations, immigration, ethnography, community studies, and oral history. For her doctoral dissertation on cultural politics and memory, she conducted oral history interviews with first generation Vietnamese Americans in San Diego. She has also collaborated on a Pacific Rim Foundation-funded project, interviewing over 70 Vietnamese Americans in the southern California area. Her academic research has been published in Amerasia Journal, the anthology Le Viet Nam Au Feminin, and Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Dr. Vo Dang currently facilitates and co-hosts a weekly Vietnamese-language radio show called Oral history; stories between the generations on VNCR (FM 106.3).
Scope/Content: Maria Nga Chau in Horizon Cross Cultural Center conference room, Photographer: Thuy Vo Dang, 2013
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf field notes English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 02:00:28
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8wq88
VAOHP0127_P01.jpg
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/11411
Language: Vietnamese
vi
Subject: Anticommunism | Anticommunist | Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) | Business | Catholic | Children | Communism | Communist | Death | Education | Employment | Escape | Family reunification | Garment worker | High school | Marriage
Time Period: 1940-1949
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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