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Title: Oral History of Tung Dinh
Creator: Dinh, Tuc
Contributor: Pham, Theresa
Date Created and/or Issued: 2015-05-26
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. Tung Dinh who was born in Saigon, Vietnam on November 28, 1961. He was the youngest of three children and spent most of his days in Vietnam either rigorously studying in high school or making numerous attempts to escape from his homeland. After finishing his high school education, he was captured twice for attempting to escape Vietnam and was sentenced to jail for 18 months at a time—serving a total of 3 years of jail time. Upon escaping the jail his last time, he made his way through Cambodia and into Thailand where he, his oldest sister, and his father were sponsored to the United States by his aunt who resided in Cerritos. Since then, he has worked several electrical and mechanical inspection jobs and is very involved at his Buddhist Temple. He is a mechanical/electronics inspector and resides in Westminster, California with his wife and four kids.
Scope/Content: This recording is from the Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2015 Spring subcollection.
Scope/Content: Tung dressed up in a suit for his birthday dinner with his family, Photographer Linh Bui Dinh, November 1993
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log English; 1 pdf narrator life map English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 95 minutes
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8vg28
VAOHP0237
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14150
Language: English
en
Subject: Adoption | Boat People | Buddhist | Catholic | Children | Death | Dentist | Discrimination | Elderly | Employment | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Health | High school | Humanitarian operation | Immigrant | Interracial relationship | Marriage | Reeducation camp | Refugee camp (Philippines) | Refugee camp (Thailand) | Religion | Student | Tet Festival | Viet Cong | Vietnam War | Cambodia | Irvine, California | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Los Angeles, California | Westminster, California | Bien Hoa (Vietnam) | My Tho (Vietnam) | Nha Trang (Vietnam) | Nha Trang (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1960-1969
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2015 Spring

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