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Scope/Content: An oral history of Truong Le Chi, born in 1940 in Soc Trang, Vietnam to a father who was a photographer. She is the middle child with an older brother and a younger brother. Although born and raised in Soc Trang, she lived in Saigon where she attended Gia Long, a school for girls. She married her tutor who was an engineer and had 6 children. Her husband passed away in 1969 and she gave 5 of her 6 children up for adoption. They were sent to the West and her eldest remained with her until he escaped to Cambodia as an adult. She traded medicine on the black market, married a South Vietnamese veteran who had been released from reeducation prison, and left Vietnam with him and his children through the Orderly Departure Program. Once she arrived in the U.S. she reunited with her children. At the time of interview, she is retired and living alone in Garden Grove, California. 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: Truong Le Chi in her backyard next to her prized fruit trees, Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2013
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2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese;13 jpg image files; 7 pdf documents; 1 pdf field notes English
Business | Children | Death | Family | High school | Marriage | Orderly Departure Program | Orphan | Pharmacist | Resettlement | Restaurants | Vietnam War | Garden Grove, California | Saigon (Vietnam) | Soc Trang (Vietnam)
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