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Title: Oral History of Alex Hieu Tran
Creator: Tran, Alex Hieu
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-08-31
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 Alex Hieu Tran, born in Da Nang, Vietnam in 1957 to a large family with nine other siblings. His family lived in Hue, but he lived in Saigon and attended school there. He recalls life changing dramatically for him after 1975 because his father was sent to reeducation camp and he had to work with the youth cadres. He studied and taught a form of martial arts-meditation (chi cong) in Vietnam and continues this practice here. He came to the United States in 1992 through the Humanitarian Operation under the Orderly Departure Program after his father was released from 13 years in prison. At the time of interview he lives in Orange County, California and works in a hair salon, but also teaches chi cong.
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 Alex Hieu Tran, Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2012
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf transcription English; 4 jpg image files
Extent: 1:48:30
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8716q
VAOHP0090_P01.jpg
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/8396
Language: Vietnamese
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Subject: Communism | Communist | Death | Education | Family | Orderly Departure Program | Reeducation | Reeducation camp | Viet Cong | Vietnam War | Orange County, California | Riverside County, California | Da nang (Vietnam) | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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