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Scope/Content: Oral history of Mr. Luong Van Ty (Ty Van Luong, western-style), born in 1932 in South Vietnam. He grew up in Saigon in a middle class family with a Chinese father, Vietnamese mother, and 5 siblings. His interview focused on early years in Saigon, his experience in the Army Reserves and later as an artist who was commissioned to create a large painting of former South Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem that was hung in the presidential palace. His interview also elaborates on his experience leaving Vietnam in 1975 and resettlement in Southern California. He worked many different jobs including a portrait artist of Movieland Museum and owned various businesses, including a Vietnamese-language television station for 25 years. After his retirement he refocused his energy on painting and at the time of interview was learning sculpture. 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: Photograph of Luong Van Ty, photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2012, Luong Van Ty's Home
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2 mp3 audio files; 2 pdf transcriptions Vietnamese; 2 pdf transcriptions English; 1 pdf field notes English; 5 jpg image files
Art | Artist | Business | Business owner | Chinese and ethnic Chinese | Death | Education | Employment | Entrepreneur | Escape | Family | Farming | Marriage | Media | Resettlement | Sponsors or sponsorship | Student | Television | Vietnam War | Camp Pendleton, California | Garden Grove, California | Riverside County, California | San Bernardino County, California | Saigon (Vietnam)
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