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Title: Oral History of Phi Long Mai, restricted until 2023-10-22
Creator: Mai, Phi Long
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2016-12-13
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 Mr. Phi Long Mai, born on March 3, 1966, in Saigon, Vietnam. His father was a marine major in the South Republican Army, and his mother was a housewife who became a businesswoman after 1975. Around 1971, at the age of five, he started following his mother to preach with the Jehovah's Witnesses. He talks about how his family received the news that they got accepted to go to America in 1991. He studied at Cypress College and describes how he stepped into the business industry as well as the media industry. Material is restricted until 2023-10-22
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 Phi Long Mai and interviewer Thuy Vo Dang, Photographer Tram Le, 2013, Santa Ana, California.
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf transcription English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 01:58:54
Identifier: ark:/81235/d82b2r
VAOHP0161_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14143
Language: Vietnamese
vi
Subject: Banker | Business | Business owner | Children | Humanitarian operation | Manicurist or nail technician | Nail salons | Refugee camp (Thailand) | Student | Garden Grove, California
Time Period: 1960-1969
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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