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Title: Oral History of Thai Quoc Ha
Creator: Ha, Thai Quoc
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-09-22
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: An oral history with Dr. Thai Quoc Ha, born in 1962 in Saigon, Vietnam. His parents fled North Vietnam in 1954 to come to the South where his father worked as the head nurse for Hong Bang Hospital in Saigon. He, the youngest in the family, was 13 years old when Saigon fell to the communists, but because one of his brothers was in reeducation camp, they did not leave until 1978. His oldest brother, who was a civil engineer, and some other people built a boat to escape. He and 9 other relatives, including his 2 brothers and 1 sister, left Can Tho in 1978. They were at sea for 2 days and 3 nights before they landed on the shores of Malaysia. He stayed in a refugee camp in Pulau Bidong for 8 months before reuniting with his 2 other siblings in the U.S. He first lived in Fremont, CA, then moved to Richland, WA for high school, then back down to Southern California where he went to undergraduate and medical school at UC Irvine. He is a medical doctor specializing in gastrointestinal. He is the founder of Picture Arts Foundation with a cultural center in Cal State Dominguez Hills and is currently residing in Redondo Beach, California.
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: Thai Quoc Ha holding his pet parrot inside his home, Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2012
Type: sound
Format: 3 mp3 audio files; 1 word document transcription English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 02:12:01
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8cr0x
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http://hdl.handle.net/10575/13300
Language: English
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Subject: Art | Arts and Entertainment | Artist | Biology | Boat People | Business owner | College or university | Escape | English as a second language (ESL) | Healthcare | Language barrier | Physician | Reeducation camp | Refugee camp | Refugee camp (Malaysia) | Religion | Thai Pirates | Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) | Irvine, California | Los Angeles County, California | Orange County, California | Pulau Bidong Refugee Camp, Malaysia | San Francisco, California | University of California, Irvine | Vietnam, Southern | Can Tho (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1960-1969
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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