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Title: Oral History of Kelley Khuu, restricted until 2025-05-17
Creator: Kelley Khuu
Contributor: Quyen Tran
Date Created and/or Issued: 2015-05-06
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: An oral history with Ms. Kelley Khuu, a Chinese descendant born in 1977 in Cần Thơ, Vietnam. She spent the first ten years of her life as an ordinary child in Vietnam before immigrating to the United States by plane through her grandmother’s sponsorship in 1987. She was captured by the Communist Party when she was two, and that left a mark on her childhood. She couldn’t remember much of her time in Vietnam since she left when she was young. She discusses how life in America was for her and emphasizes the opportunities and freedom that the United States offers its citizens. She earned a college degree in accounting. She lived happily after moving to America and grew up as a Vietnamese American, carrying both cultures and traditions. Now settled with her nuclear family, including her husband and son in Anaheim, California, Kelley would like to preserve the precious traditions for future generations. She took her son to a school run by a Buddhist temple to learn Vietnamese and would like to be a teacher there as her involvement in the community. Material restricted until 2025-05-17.
Scope/Content: This recording is from the Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2015 Spring subcollection.
Scope/Content: Kelley at the time of the interview at her mother-in-law's house in Anaheim, CA, May 2015
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf narrator life map; 10 jpg image files
Extent: 85 minutes
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8h556
VAOHP0233
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14163
Language: English
en
Subject: Acculturation | Banker | Buddhist | Business | Chinese and ethnic Chinese | Citizenship | College or university | Education | Emigration | Employment | Entrepreneur | Family | Festival | Immigrant | Marriage | Moon Festival | Nail salons | Prisoner | Refugee camp (Philippines) | Sponsors or sponsorship | Tet Festival | Tradition or custom | Tourism | Welfare | Anaheim, California | Huntington Beach, California | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Can Tho (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1970-1979
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2015 Spring

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