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Title: Oral History of Que Tho Tran, restricted until 2033-01-14
Creator: Tran, Tho Que
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2013-01-14
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. Tran Tho Que, born in 1942 in Nam Dinh, Vietnam to a family of eleven children. In 1954, his family moved to Gia Dinh in the South when the country was partitioned and his mother provided for their family with a business. He joined the Air Force and spent two years training in the United States from 1965-67. He married and had eight children. The last child was born after they escaped from Vietnam in 1975 and arrived in Minnesota. Material restricted until 2033-01-14.
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: Que Tho Tran, Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2013
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 00:55:47
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8bv0n
VAOHP0105_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/11976
Language: Vietnamese
vi
Subject: Air Force (VN) | Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) | Children | Emigration | Family | Viet Cong | Vietnam War | Irvine, California | Vietnam, Northern | Bien Hoa (Vietnam) | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1940-1949
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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