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Title: Oral History of Bichlien Nguyen
Creator: Nguyen, Bichlien
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-07-20
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 with Dr. BichLien Nguyen, born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1954. She is currently an oncologist practicing in Orange County, California. Her interview focused on her memories of going to pharmacy school in Saigon, being the eldest in her family and taking care of her mother who suffered from cancer. She left Vietnam by boat with her family and passed through Guam and the Philippines before resettling in Albuquerque, New Mexico through the sponsorship of a Lutheran Church. She met and married her husband, another Vietnamese refugee, in Albuquerque and then they moved to Orange County where she completed her undergraduate degree and medical school at UC Irvine. She has two children. She co-founded the Vietnamese American Cancer Foundation in 2002. At the time of interview she continues to participate actively in community life in Orange County.
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 Bichlien Nguyen, photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2012
Type: sound
Format: 3 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 02:04:25
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8st8c
VAOHP0081_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/3270
Language: English
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Subject: Acculturation | Boat People | Children | College or university | Education | Family | Health | Healthcare | Humanitarian organization | Identity | Marriage | Media | Medical professional | Physician | Refugee camp | Religion | Resettlement | Singer | Sponsors or sponsorship | Student | Vietnam War | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Orange County, California | Saigon (Vietnam) | University of California, Irvine (UCI)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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