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Title
Oral History of Nhut Van Tran
Creator
Tran, Nhut Van
Contributor
Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued
2013-03-28
Contributing Institution
UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection
Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project
Rights Information
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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 Nhu Van Tran, born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1935. He was a General in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and at the end of his military career he was commanding officer for the central region, known for the battle of An Loc. He came to the United States on two separate occasions for training with the U.S. Military. He got married at the age of 22 and has four children. In 1975, he and his family were evacuated to Camp Pendleton and then were sponsored by a patron in Texas. They moved from Texas to San Diego and then settled in Orange County. In America he has held a variety of jobs from gardening to working in an oil refinery and Navy shipyard.
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: Nhut Van Tran, Santa Ana, CA, 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; 20 jpg image files
Extent
02:02:20
Identifier
ark:/81235/d88161
VAOHP0134_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/11412
Language
Vietnamese
vi
Time Period
1930-1939
Relation
Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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