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Scope/Content: Oral history of Dr. Xuanto Leduc and Dr. Truong-Sinh Leduc, a couple who are physicians. Dr. Xuanto was born in 1953 in Chau Doc, Vietnam. Dr. Truong-Sinh was born in 1952 in Da Nang, Vietnam. The pair had very parallel experiences until they were separated in 1975. The oldest of five, Dr. Xuanto’s father was Chief of Police in Chau Doc. Her family was middle class and comfortable and she was able to attend school and then medical school in Saigon. Dr. Truong-Sinh also attended medical school in Saigon where he met Dr. Xuanto. Their courtship was interrupted in 1975 when he evacuated South Vietnam and she was stuck behind. She went on to finish medical school and practice medicine in Vietnam while he struggled to do the same in the U.S. In 1979 she escaped by boat and arrived in Westminster, California. At first the couple were estranged, but friends brought them back together and they married in the U.S. They have four sons and a joint medical practice at the time of the interview. 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: (L-R) Xuanto Leduc and Truong-Sinh Leduc, Photographer: Thuy Vo Dang, 2013
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4 mp3 audio files; 1 word document transcription English; 1 word document transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf field notes English; 13 jpg image files
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