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Title: Oral History of Bui Bich Ha
Creator: Bui, Bich-Ha
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-07-23
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 Ms. Bui Bich Ha (or Bich-Ha Bui, western-style), a woman born in 1938 in Hue, Vietnam. She spoke in detail about her father, one of the four wealthiest men in Vietnam in the mid-century. The interview also explores her memories of life before the August Revolution of 1945, then the years before 1954, and finally the drastic changes to her family’s fortune after 1954. She became a teacher and radio broadcaster before 1975. Then, after the Vietnam War ended, her children had to join the youth cadres while she continued teaching. Her family left Vietnam via sponsorship in 1985. After resettlement in the US, she worked at various jobs such as assembly-work and eventually moved up in her career in research & development. Meanwhile, she also actively participated in community work, ran a radio program on “women and family,” and served as editor of “Phu Nu Gia Dinh” Magazine. She raised her two daughters in America alone. At the time of interview she is retired from her job and radio program, but continues to serve as editor of Phu Nu Gia Dinh.
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 Bui Bich Ha, photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2012
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf transcription English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 01:55:31
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8fj27
VAOHP0082_P01.jpg
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/3273
Language: Vietnamese
vi
Subject: Children | College or university | Colonialism | Communism | Communist | Death | Discrimination | Education | Employment | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Family reunification | Identity | Marriage | Media | Radio | Resettlement | Sponsors or sponsorship | Stereotypes | Student | Teacher | Tradition or custom | Vietnam War | Garden Grove, California | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Orange County, California | Hue (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1930-1939
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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