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Title: Oral History of Huynh Van Chinh (aka Trung Chinh)
Creator: Huynh, Chinh Van
Contributor: Tran, Darlena
Date Created and/or Issued: 2010-11-07
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. Huynh Van Chinh, who also goes by the name of Trung Chinh. He was born in My Tho, Vietnam in 1943 and was a medical doctor of the Army 1971 until the war ended in 1975. During the interview he described his experience growing up in a poor family, his schooling, and then his time in the Army. When the war ended, he was sent to reeducation camp for one year, released to work at a hospital in ChoLon and then escaped Vietnam by boat and passed through Pulau Bidong, Malaysia. He resettled in Denver, Colorado through a sponsor. In 2000, he came to settle down in Los Angeles, California.
Scope/Content: In 2008, the Vietnamese American community in Austin, along with VAHF, successfully collaborated with the University of Texas at Austin’s Center For Asian American Studies (CAAS) to establish a course on Vietnamese American history and culture, instructed by Ph.D. candidate Linda Ho Peché. Each student was required to complete an oral interview of a self-identified Vietnamese American. These oral histories became part of the 500 Oral History Project initiated by VAHF as its third most urgent collection, since many members of the first genera- tion of Vietnamese Americans are now elderly. With their passing, first-hand accounts of the Vietnamese American immigration experience would be lost.
Type: moving image
Format: 5 mp4 video files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf transcription English
Extent: 01:27:48
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8kn95
VAHF0003
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/3281
Language: Vietnamese
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Subject: Anticommunism | Anticommunist | Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) | Boat People | Children | Citizenship | Communism | Communist | Death | Employment | English as a second language (ESL) | Ethnicity | Exile | Expatriate | Family | Human rights | Identity | Marriage | Reeducation | Reeducation camp | Refugee camp | Refugee camp (Malaysia) | Sponsors or sponsorship | Viet Cong | Viet Kieu | Vietnam War | Los Angeles County, California | My Tho (Vietnam) | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1940-1949
Relation: Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation Oral Histories Project

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