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The Far East Comes Near : Autobiographical Accounts of Southeast Asian Students in America
author
:
Nguyen, Lucy Hong Nhiem
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0870236717
print isbn13
:
9780870236716
ebook isbn13
:
9780585247212
language
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English
subject
Indochinese--Education (Higher)--United States, Indochinese--United States--Biography, Refugees--Indochina, Refugees--United States.
publication date
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1989
lcc
:
LC2633.6.F37 1989eb
ddc
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378/.1982
subject
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Indochinese--Education (Higher)--United States, Indochinese--United States--Biography, Refugees--Indochina, Refugees--United States.
Page i
The Far East Comes Near
Page ii
Home is on the river (Saigon). Photo by Le Van Khoa.
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The Far East Comes Near
Autobiographical Accounts of Southeast Asian Students in America
Edited by Lucy Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem and Joel Martin Halpern
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Copyright 1989 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 8832687 ISBN 0870236717 (cloth); 6725 (pbk.) Designed by Barbara Werden Set in Linotron Plantin at Keystone Typesetting
Printed by Thomson-Shore and bound by John Dekker & Sons
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Far East comes near: autobiographical accounts of Southeast Asian students in America/edited by Lucy Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem and Joel Martin Halpern. p. cm. ISBN 0870236717ISBN 0870236725 (pbk.) 1.IndochineseEducation (Higher)United States. 2.IndochineseUnited StatesBiography. 3.RefugeesIndochina. 4.RefugeesUnited States. I.Nguyen, Lucy Hong Nhiem, 1939 . II.Halpern, Joel Martin. LC2633.6.F37 1989 378'. 1982dc19 8832687 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Page v
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Foreword
DeirdreLing
xi
Introduction
JoelMartinHalpern
3
Becoming a Refugee, Being a Refugee, Ceasing to Be a Refugee
LucyNguyen-Hong-Nhiem
13
Student Essays from Vietnam*
Memories from the Past
DoMinhBang
23
Memories
TaMinhTri
35
"We Are Killing Our Own Brothers, Our Souls"
TranThiSanh
39
Not Too Young to Understand Communism
PhanHuuThanh
44
Hopes of a Better Life
NguyenHungAnh
52
An Image of Home
NguyenVanNhan
56
The Price of Freedom
HuynhHuuHieu
63
A Terrifying Escape
LeTanSi
69
A Tragic Voyage
DangHongLoan
74
A Vietnamese-Born Chinese
LamPhu
78
Separation and Reunion
NguyenHuuChung
86
*The essays have been arranged within an implicit chronological framework. Thus those that focus on life in the home countries come first and are followed by those that deal with the manner of escape and, finally, the experiences in America.
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