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Title: Oral History of Nhu Thi Tong
Creator: Tong, Nhu Thi
Contributor: Vong, Shaomay De
Date Created and/or Issued: 2013-03-09
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Oral history of Nhu Thi Tong, born in Hue, Viet Nam in 1956 to a family with five sons and one other daughter besides herself. She lived and went to college in Hue, but worked in a hospital in Nha Trang, where she also met and married her spouse. She recalls her first encounter with the Communists when they attacked Hue on the first night of Vietnamese New Year in 1968. She came to the United States as a boat person after staying for ten months in the refugee camps in Palawan and Bataan, Philippines. She continued her college education in California State University Long Beach and went on to become a nurse. At the time of the interview, she lives in Garden Grove, California with her spouse, mother, and two of her children and works as a nurse in the University of California Irvine Medical Center.
Scope/Content: The Linda Vo Class Oral Histories, 2013 are part of a seminar that introduced students to a range of key methodological issues in Asian American Studies. The readings are organized around questions, approaches, and critiques that will help students develop technical skills in qualitative research and analysis, as well as examine how researchers have studied the demographic transformations, economic restructuring, and political changes that shape social relations. We will gain a critical understanding of some of the theoretical, empirical, and ethical challenges posed by scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, we will discuss "voice" which can refer to literal, direct forms of expression such as interviews, personal testimonies, and oral histories; and more broadly, as well as forms of symbolic representation such as photographs, videos, and other cultural texts. Students are required to complete a fieldwork research/oral history project, presentations, and short writing assignments.
Scope/Content: Photograph of Nhu Tong, Photographer Dara Nguyen - her youngest daughter, 2011, Garden Grove, California
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 01:11:36
Identifier: ark:/81235/d80q9k
VAOHP0116_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/8403
Language: English
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Subject: Ancestor | Anticommunism | Anticommunist | Boat People | Buddhist | College or university | Education | Escape | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Medical professional | Refugee camp (Philippines) | Tradition or custom | Vietnam War | Garden Grove, California | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Orange County, California | Vietnam, Southern | Hue (Vietnam) | Nha Trang (Vietnam) | Nha Trang (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Linda Vo Class Oral Histories, 2013

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