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Title: Oral History of Ha Bich Van
Creator: Ha, Van Bich
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-07-15
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 Ha Bich Van (Van Bich Ha, western-style) who was born in Hai Phong, Vietnam in 1952. Her family moved to Qui Nhon where they owned a restaurant. Her interview focused on her memories of family and school in Qui Nhon and Saigon. She attended culinary school and operated a bakery of her own until 1975. After the war, her husband was sent to reeducation camp and she continued to support her family through operating a food stall at the market. Her husband and daughter left the country by boat and she and her son were sponsored to the US by her brothers and sisters in the San Gabriel Valley in 1993. At the time of the interview, she is head chef of Crustacean Beverly Hills, a successful Vietnamese-French fusion restaurant owned by a Vietnamese family.
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 Ha Bich Van, photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2012, Rosemead, Calif
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf transcription English; 4 jpg image files
Extent: 01:32:47
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8p46s
VAOHP0080_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/3271
Language: Vietnamese
vi
Subject: Buddhist | Business | Business owner | Children | Communism | Communist | Education | Employment | Family | Family reunification | Identity | Marriage | Orderly Departure Program | Reeducation | Remittances | Restaurants | Sponsors or sponsorship | Student | Tradition or custom | Viet Cong | Viet Kieu | Vietnam War | Los Angeles County, California | Hai Phong (Vietnam) | Qui Nhon (Vietnam) | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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