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Scope/Content: Oral history of Lam Tuyet Mai (or Mai Tuyet Lam, western-style) who was born in 1957 in the central region of Vietnam. She is ethnic Chinese Vietnamese, the oldest in a large family of seven, and grew up around mostly other Chinese-Vietnamese. She married in 1969 and her husband was in the entertainment troupe for the South Vietnam military. They had five children, but lost one. They left Vietnam in 1978 during the time when a many Chinese Vietnamese were ordered to leave by the new communist regime. They passed through a refugee camp in Hong Kong, then were resettled to Albany, New York and then decided to settle permanently in Los Angeles, California. She has been a seamstress for about thirty years. 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 Lam Tuyet Mai, photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2012, Westminster, Calif.
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2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 4 jpg image files
Boat People | Children | China | Chinese and ethnic Chinese | Employment | Escape | English as a second language (ESL) | Ethnicity | Family | Garment worker | High school | Identity | Marriage | Refugee camp (Hong Kong) | Remittances | Resettlement | Tradition or custom | Viet Kieu | Vietnam War | Los Angeles, California | Quang Ngai (Vietnam) | Quang Tri (Vietnam)
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