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Title: Oral History of Thien Nong
Creator: Nong, Thien
Contributor: Nong, Eric
Date Created and/or Issued: 2015-05-16
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: An oral history with Mr. Thien Van Nong, born in 1962 in Saigon, Vietnam. His family are descendants from the Nung and Tho ethnic minority tribes in the Lang Son Province of Vietnam. He was thirteen years old when he had to flee Vietnam with his parents and his nine siblings who were based in Saigon because of his eldest brother’s work with the U.S. Army. They left Vietnam on April 28, 1975 from Tan Son Nhut Airport and flew to the Philippines for a brief stay. From the Philippines, they landed in Guam and later found themselves in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Mr. Nong and his family were relocated to Evansville, Indiana later in 1975. He discusses his experiences in Vietnam, his time assimilating into American culture, and his experiences at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT). He would be the first in his family to earn a college degree, receiving a degree in chemical engineering from RHIT. He is married, has two children, and currently resides in Irvine, California with his family.
Scope/Content: This recording is from the Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2015 Spring subcollection.
Scope/Content: Mr. Nong at his work station at Cytec Engineered Materials; Orange, CA; June 9, 2015; Photographer Angel Ramirez
Type: sound
Format: 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf life map; 5 jpg image files
Extent: 100 minutes
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8j277
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14583
Language: English
en
Subject: Assimilation | Children | Citizenship | Communism | Education | Engineer | Ethnicity | Family | Higher education | Identity | Integration | Intergenerational Gap | Naturalization | Poverty | Racism | Resettlement | Sponsors or sponsorship | Tan Son Nhut Airport | Tradition or custom | Fort Chaffee, Arkansas | Irvine, California | Orange County, California | Lang Son (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1960-1969
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2015 Spring

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