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Scope/Content: Born in 1934 in Hanh Thien village in Nam Dinh province in Vietnam, Nhan Thi Nguyen resides in Tustin, California at the time of interview. Her father was a businessman and her mother passed away when she was one. Her early years of schooling was disrupted due to Japanese occupation and Vietnamese anticolonial struggles against the French. In 1954 she migrated south and married Duong Dinh Thu, a military man who later became a colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. They had nine children. After the war ended in 1975, her husband was sent to reeducation camp for four years, but she was able to escape the country with her nine children who ranged in age between one and 18 years old. They came to Camp Pendleton in May 1975 and then were resettled in San Clemente initially. She was reunited with her husband after his release from reeducation prison. Their family moved to Tustin. Nhan Thi Nguyen worked as a seamstress for 18 years to support her children, six of whom work in the medical field. 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: Nhan Thi Nguyen in front of her family altar, Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2013
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