Description |
xv, 446 pages ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-446). |
Contents |
pt. I: Hearts of sorrow -- Introduction -- 1. The Vietnamese refugee experience -- 2. Creating hearts of sorrow. |
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pt. II: Vietnam: childhood, youth, and character -- Introduction -- 3. I never forget an insult: 1906-1941 -- 4. Youngest daughter: 1914-1934 -- 5. I grew up without love: 1925-1937 -- 6. Make friends with equals: 1927-1940 -- 7. Predestined for the religious life: 1934-1952 -- 8. Growing up in a Catholic village: 1942-1966 -- 9. Childhood in North and South Vietnam: 1946-1968 -- 10. Not to beat is not to love: 1963-1979. |
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pt. III: Vietnam: sorrows of war -- Introduction -- 11. Famine: 1945 -- 12. Jailed by the French: 1945-1948 -- 13. The execution of my husband: 1946 -- 14. Viet Minh and French: 1945-1956 -- 15. Memories of Communist Hanoi: 1945-1966 -- 16. Viet Cong and Americans: 1956-1969 -- 17. War with the Americans and life after: 1965-1980 -- 18. The death toll in my family: 1945-1975. |
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pt. IV: Vietnam: sorrows of liberation -- Introduction -- 19. Saigon falls: 1975 -- 20. Prisoner without trial: 1975-1976 -- 21. Sent North to die: 1976-1979 -- 22. Harshest incarceration: 1979-1981 -- 23. Ten Indochinese days: 1975-1978 -- 24. Buddhism under Communism: 1975-1978 -- 25. Escape from Ban Me Thuot: 1975-1978 -- 26. Communist intimidation of schoolboys: 1975-1979 -- 27. Visits to a reeducation camp: 1975-1981. |
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pt. V: Flight to freedom -- Introduction -- 28. Despair in a refugee camp: 1975 -- 29. Better to die at sea than to remain: 1975-1976 -- 30. People at their worst: 1978-1979 -- 31. Perilous journey: 1979 / Joseph D. Gosha -- 32. Bien Hoa jail: 1981 -- 33. Brutality in a Thai refugee camp: 1982. |
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pt. VI: America: heartache beneath success -- Introduction -- 34. I will die lonely and abandoned: 1975-1985 -- 35. I cannot learn English: 1975-1984 -- 36. We cannot walk in our neighborhood: 1976-1982 -- 37. God made me a hard-working man: 1978-1983 -- 38. They tell me their troubles: 1979-1984 -- 39. I want to live without trouble: 1980-1984 -- 40. Victim of a youth gang stabbing: 1981-1982 -- 41. My daughter neglects me: 1984. |
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pt. VII: Interpretations -- 42. Implications for biography. |
Awards |
American Book Award, 1990 |
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Asian American Studies Book Award, 1990. |
Summary |
First-person narratives of the lives of fourteen Vietnamese-Americans document the effects of the fall of Vietnam to the Communists. The book is organized both thematially and chronologically. |
Subject |
Vietnamese Americans.
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Refugees -- United States.
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Refugees -- Vietnam.
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Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
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Vietnamese Americans. (OCoLC)fst01166663
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Vietnam. (OCoLC)fst01204778
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Erlebnisbericht (DE-588)4133254-4
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Vietnamesen (DE-588)4063515-6
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Vietnamesischer Flüchtling (DE-588)4293152-6
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United States (DE-588)4078704-7
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Vietnamesen.
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United States.
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1945-1984
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Indexed Term |
Refugees United States |
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Refugees Vietnam |
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Vietnamese Americans |
ISBN |
0804715858 (alk. paper) |
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9780804715850 (alk. paper) |
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0804718903 |
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9780804718905 |
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