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Nguyễn, Thiên Khâm Thượng
Nguyen Thuong Kham Thien, whose real name is Nguyen Dai Hai, was born in 1939 in Hanoi. During the 1954 exodus of nearly 1 million people from the North to the South, his relatives all boarded ships going south. However, his father did not let the…
Nguyet, Cao Anh
Cao Anh Nguyet shares her family history as a descendant of the Nguyen dynasty, her experiences teaching after the communists gained control after 1975, her sponsorship to the U.S. and about her current journalism work.
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Huynh, Lang Van
Vietnamese language interview with artist Lang Van Huynh.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral…
Nguyen, Kieu Chinh
Kieu Chinh describes her childhood living in Hanoi during WWII. When she was six, the Japanese bombed a hospital killing her mother and infant brother. She also recalls "the starvation" period during the Japanese occupation when her family moved to…
Adams, Alyssa
Alyssa Adams is the second wife of the late Eddie Adams, the combat photographer that won a Pulitzer prize for the image of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He later regretted the damage the…
Vu, Thu Hien
Vietnamese language interview with former North Vietnamese filmmaker Vu Thu Hien.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the…
Woo, Christina J.
Christina J. Woo, research librarian for the Southeast Asian Archive at the UCI Libraries shows and discusses refugee artworks in the collection by Paul Tran, a journalist who visited refugee camps in Southeast Asia. There are between 400-500…
Nguyen, Dat
Dat Nguyen discusses the obstacles he faced while pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician and songwriter despite being blind from birth, orphaned at the age of five and living in impoverished conditions in Vietnam. In 1989, he…
Vu, Chieu-Anh
Chieu Anh Vu is a fashion designer and 1.5 generation Vietnamese with Dutch, Canadian and American identities. She describes her birth at sea after her parents escaped the Fall of Saigon on a ship. She expresses her passion for her career and…