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Contributors list

Andrew Lam

Andrew Lam is an associate editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and and a regular commentator on NPR. Lam was born in Saigon, Vietnam and came to the U.S. when he was eleven years old.
His awards include the Society of Professional Journalist Outstanding Young Journalist Award (1993), The Media Alliance Meritorious awards (1994), The World Affairs Council's Excellence in International Journalism Award (1992), the Rockefeller Fellowship in UCLA (1992), and the Asian American Journalist Association National Award (1993; 1995). He was honored and profiled on KQED television in May 1996 during Asian American heritage month and he will be serving as a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University during the academic year 2001-02.
Lam is currently working on his first short story collection.

Barbara Tran

Barbara Tran is co-editor, along with Monique T. D. Truong and Luu Truong Khoi, of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. She is the recipient of an Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. Barbara's first poetry book, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words, won the Tupelo Press Chapbook Competition. It was published in May 2002.



Barbara Widenor Maggs

Dr. Maggs is an Associate of the Russian and East European Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her publications include "Cosmopolitanism in Early Travel Literature: Alexandre de Rhodes in Vietnam," : Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. 6, 2001, and "Four Europeans and the Court of Old Vietnam: Travelers' Ventures and Rivalries in the Mid-Eighteenth Century," in The Tamkang Review, Vol. 31, No. 4 - Vol. 32, No.1, 2001.

Christopher Goscha

Christopher Goscha is currently an assistant professor in history at the University of Lyon II and a research member of the Institut d\'Asie Orientale(Lyon, France). Dr. Goscha received his PhD at the Sorbonne in the year of 2000. His dissertation entitled: \"The Asian Context of the Franco-Vietnamese War: Networks, relations and economy ().

Chu Phong

Chu Phong is a young and talented Vietnamese-American photographer, who frequents Viet Nam on photographic trips.

D. L. Ashliman
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html
Professor Ashliman retired from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 and now conducts his folklore research from southern Utah. He receives his M.A and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. His publications include
  • Voices from the Past: The Cycle of Life in Indo-European Folktales, second edition, expanded and revised. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1995. ISBN 0--1. 495 pages. First edition 1993.
  • Once upon a Time: The Story of European Folktales. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, External Studies Program, 1994. 235 pages.
  • A Guide to Folktales in the English Language: Based on the Aarne-Thompson Classification System. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, vol. 11. Westport (Connecticut), New York, and London: Greenwood Press, 1987. ISBN 0-313-25961-5. 384 pages. Designated as an "outstanding reference source" by the American Library Association.
  • Ph.D. dissertation: The American West in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. Rutgers University, 1969. Dissertation Abstracts 2959-A. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Order number 7000572.


Dan Duffy

Dan Duffy is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and in Langues, Litteratures et Societes at Langues O (INALCO), Paris. He is editor-in-chief of Books and Authors: Viet Nam, a non-profit corporation developing currucular materials on Vietnamese history and literature.

David Marr

Dr. David G. Marr is a specialist in Vietnamese history, politics and culture. He is a Senior Fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. His publications include Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, (Berkeley, 1981); (ed. with A.C.Milner) Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries (Singapore, 1986); Vietnamese Anticolonialism, (Berkeley, 1971); and Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power (Berkeley, 1995). He is currently president of the Vietnam Studies Association of Australia.



Dinh-Hoa Nguyen

Nguyen, Dinh-Hoa (B.A., Union College; M.A. and Ph. D., New York University) was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Foreign Languages & Literatures at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA. Between 1969 and 1990, he also served as Associate Director, then Director, of the Center for Vietnamese Studies, set up on the SIU campus to coordinate academic courses and research programs on various aspects of Vietnamese civilization. Early 2000, he became the first Director of Institute of Vietnamese Studies, a private institution based in California.

Since 1948, the Hanoi-born scholar had lived in the United States, except for the interval from 1957 to 1965, when he served as Dean of the University of Saigon Faculty of Letters (), chaired its Department of English, and concurrently taught linguistics at the Universities of Saigon, Hue , and Dalat In addition to his duties at the University of Saigon, Professor Nguyen also headed the Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Ministry of National Education and liaised with the UNESCO.

Other teaching experiences at Columbia University, the University of Washington, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Hawaii, the Centre Pédagogique Regional in Rabat, Morocco, San Jose State University and Mission College, as well as his 21 years spent in the American Midwest had resulted in several language textbooks and bilingual dictionaries as well as numerous articles and essays appearing in international journals and encyclopedias.

In addition to his popular texts Speak Vietnamese and Colloquial Vietnamese, in the year of 2000, the 76-year-old Vietnamese American scholar had authored Vietnamese literature: A Brief Survey and Vietnamese literature: An Anthology (both published at San Diego State University), and Vietnamese [grammar] (published by John Benjamins in Holland). One year before he was selected as the first director of the Institute of Vietnamese Studies, established in Garden Grove, California, on February 26, 2000, Professor Nguyen had issued the first volume of his autobiography: From the city inside the Red River: A cultural memoir of mid-century Vietnam (published by McFarland Co. in Jefferson, North Carolina, in 1999). The late Professor Nguyen Dinh-Hoa passed away in December 2000 in Mountain View, California.



Eric Hyer

Eric Hyer is an associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University where he teachers courses on the international relations of East Asia and China. Dr. Eric Hyer received a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1990. His research focuses on China’s foreign relations, especially China’s relations with its neighbors. He has conducted field research on China’s boundaries in Russia, Vietnam, Mongolia, and along China’s border with Central Asia. In the early 1970s, he was a student in Taiwan studying Chinese and then served as a missionary of the LDS Church in Taiwan. In 1980, he went to Beijing to continue his study of Chinese. He has traveled in Tibet, and twice traversed the Karakorum Highway between western China and Pakistan. He has traveled extensively within China and was a visiting scholar at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, . His most recent trip to the region was in late August and early September of 2001; he left the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on September 3 to return to the United States.



Frank Trinh

Frank Nhat Trinh is a language teacher with an MA (Hons) and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Macquarie University in Sydney. He taught English in Vietnam and Vietnamese in Australia for the period of 30 years. His teaching experience is enhanced by his work as a translator/broadcaster with the BBC World Service in London in the early 1980s. His contributions to languages include his training and assessment of Vietnamese community translators and interpreters at the University of Western Sydney and the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) in Canberra. His views on the search for translation equivalence between English and Vietnamese were expressed in the American Vietnamese-language 21st Century Magazine and on Australian SBS Radio Vietnamese broadcasts. His published report, “The Making of a Court Interpreter”, in l985 on a well-publicized murder case at the Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia, was well-received by his students and colleagues. His writings featuring articles on light-hearted topics and his translations of short stories by Nhat Tien and Nguyen Huy Thiep were recently carried on various international Webpages. Dr. Frank Trinh’s future projects include a bilingual dictionary for Vietnamese professional translators and interpreters.



Hoa Nguyen
http://home.jps.net/~nada/nguyen.htm

Hoa Nguyen lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, poet Dale Smith, and their son. Together they publish Skanky Possum, a small poetry journal and book imprint. Nguyen also teaches creative writing, leads online workshops, and in 2002 published Your Ancient See Through, a collection of her poems with drawings by Philip Trussell.



Jana McBurney-Lin

Jana McBurney-Lin has been freelance writing for the past 16 years for magazines and newspapers all over the world. She lived in Japan for six years and Singapore for seven. While inSingapore, she was invited to present a paper at the First Women\'s Conference of Vietnam--and it was then she had a chance to visit Halong Bay.



Jason Gibbs

Jason Gibbs received a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Pittsburgh and works as a librarian in San Francisco. Jason first traveled to Vietnam in 1993, and has been researching modern Vietnamese song and the influence of Western music on Vietnamese music. He has published articles on contemporary Vietnamese music in Experimental Musical Instruments, Asian Music, Nhac Viet, Am Nhac, Van hoa Nghe thuat, Van, and on the Things Asian website. A list of his writings may be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~minhnghia/jgwritings.html

Jeffrey Barlow

Jeffrey Barlow holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a specialist in the history of the Sino-Vietnamese frontier region and the author of four books and numerous articles published in the U.S., Taiwan, India, China, and Singapore. He has lived in East Asia for more than six years. He has received two Fulbright grants for study in Taiwan and is a frequent traveler to China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan. He holds the Matsushita Chair of Asian Studies at Pacific University. He is the editor of the Journal of the American Association of History and Computing and the President of the Association of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC). He is also the Faculty Coordinator of the Berglund Center for Internet Studies (BCIS).

John Balaban

John Balaban is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of American Poets\' Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and two nominations for the National Book Award. His Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems won the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In addition to writing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, he is a translator of Vietnamese poetry, and a past president of the American Literary Translators Association. His books on Vietnam include Ca Dao Vietnam: A Bilingual Anthology of Vietnamese Folk Poetry, Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew (with the photographer, Geoffrey Clifford), Remembering Heaven\'s Face, a memoir, and Vietnam: A Traveler\'s Literary Companion (co-edited with Nguyen Qui Duc), and his acclaimed Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. Balaban is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He is the National Artist for the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

John Kleinen

John Kleinen holds a Ph.D. in social sciences from the University of Amsterdam. He is a fellow of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), and based at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Currently, he is a SSRC visiting professor at the National Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi.

Main publications "Facing the Future Reviving the Past. A Study of Social Change in a Northern Vietnamese Village" (1999). Other publications are country-studies of Cambodia (1989), Vietnam (1993), Vietnamese Society in Transition (2001) and contributions to books and articles about colonial ethnography, religious practice, visual anthropology and fiction and cinema of the Vietnam War.



Kenneth Champeon

Kenneth Champeon is an American writer based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He spent six months in Bombay and has lived in Thailand for over three years. He contributes regularly to ThingsAsian and writes reviews of Asian literature for BookPage. Visit his web page at http://kenneth.champeon.com or email him at

Kevin Keith Allen

Kevin Keith Allen was born Nguyen Duc Minh on December 5, 1973 in Gia Dinh, Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and American father, who remain unknown to him. In late November 1974, he was adopted by a couple from Rochester, NY. He has two younger sisters. His childhood was filled with average grades, nosebleeds, band practice and a couple of dogs. Books always held a special place in his life, but it wasn’t until he was 18 that he tried his hand at the written word. He can now be found enjoying the view in Seattle, Washington.

Ky-Phong Nguyen

Ky-Phong Nguyen is the author of Nguoi My va Chien Tranh Viet Nam, a Vietnam bibliography (Library of Congress, TXU-454-138) published in the year of 2000. He currently lives in Virginia.

Lam Thi My Da

Lam Thi My Da was born in 1949, in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam. She now lives in Hue. She graduated from the Writers' College in Vietnam and also studied literature at Gorky University, Russia. With Xuan Quynh, Phem Tien Duat and Anh Tho, she is among the group of important poets who began their careers during the American War and who have gone on to create the foundations of post-war poetry. She has published many books in Vietnam, including Dedicated to a Dream in 1998 and The Adventure of the Phoenix also in 1998.

Li Tana

Li Tana, senior fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University. Her major publications:

  • Nguyen Cochichina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Southeast Asian Program, Cornell University, 1998.
  • Southern Vietnam under the Nguyen, ed. Li Tana & Anthony Reid, Data Paper Series: Sources for the economic history of Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore/ECHOSEA, Australian National University, Singapore, 1993, (reprinted 1995).
  • Peasants on the Move: A Study of Rural-to-Urban Migration in the Hanoi Region, by Li Tana, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1996.
  • Dang Trong: Lich su kinh te xa hoi duoi thoi cac chua Nguyen, the ky XVII-XVIII, Vietnamese edition of Li's PhD thesis "The Inner Region", translated by Nguyen Van Hue, City Council of Hue, Vietnam, 1997, 155pp.
  • Second Vietnamese edition of "The Inner Region": Xu Dang Trong: Lich su kinh te-xa hoi Viet Nam the ky 17 va 18, translated by Nguyen Nghi, Institute of Social Sciences of Hochiminh City, Vietnam, Youth Press, Hochiminh City, 1999, 248pp.
  • Chinese Epigraphic Materials in Hochiminh City, ed.by Li Tana and Nguyen Cam Thuy, introduced and annotated by Li Tana, Press of Social Sciences, Hanoi, 1999, 529pp.


Linh Dinh

Linh Dinh is the author of a collection of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and three chapbooks of poems, Drunkard Boxing (Singing Horse Press 1998), ?A Small Triumph Over Lassitude? (Leroy Press 2001), and ?A Glass of Water? (Skanky Possum Press 2001).

Mark Alves
www.geocities.com/malves98
Dr. Mark Alves currently teaches at Montgomery College, Maryland. His publications include:
  • [Forthcoming]"Distributional Properties of Mon-Khmer Causative Verbs" in Mon-Khmer Studies: A Journal of Southeast Asian Languages 31.
  • [Forthcoming]"Notes on Thanh Chuong Vietnamese in Nghe An Province" in Papers from the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. University of Malaysia.
  • [Forthcoming]"Ruc and Other Minor Vietic Languages: Linguistic Strands between Vietnamese and the Rest of the Mon-Khmer Language Family" in Papers from the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society," University of Illinois.
  • 2001 "What's so Chinese about Vietnamese" in Papers from the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. University of California, Berkeley.
  • 1998 "Passive Voice or Affective Verbs in Vietnamese" in The Life of Language, the Language of Life: Selected Papers from the First College-Wide Conference for Students in Languages Linguistics, and Literature. Honolulu: Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center.
  • 1997 "Problems with Western Linguistic Analyses of Southeast Asian Languages" in Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies: The Journal of the Southeast Asian Studies Student Association, Vo1. 1. Honolulu, HI: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii.
  • 1996 "The Vietnamese Linguistic Belt Buckle: An Example of Sprachbund in Southeast Asia" in Linguistics and Language Teaching: Proceedings, Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii.
  • 1995 "Tonal Features and the Development of Vietnamese Tones" in Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 27, University of Hawaii.
  • 1995 Editor of "Papers from the Third Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1993," Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies.


Mark Lim Shan-Loong

Mr. Mark Lim Shan-Loong is an Honours Year student from the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. His academic interests are centred in the fields of international relations and political history, with emphasis on Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia and East Asia.His works can be found at http://members.tripod.com/~marklsl/Writings/write.htm. Mr. Mark Lim Shan-Loong can be contacted at



Martha Collins

Martha Collins is an American poet and translator who has had a long association with Vietnam. She is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which, Some T'hings Words Can Do, was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 1998. She is the co-translator, with the author, of Nguyen Quang Thieu's The Women Carry River Water, which was published in 1997 by University of Massachusetts Press and won an award from the American Literary Translators Association. She is Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College.

Mong-Lan

Mong-Lan is a visual artist, poet and writer. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, she immigrated to America at the age of five with her family after the war in 1975. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she received the Graduate School Fellowship and the Dean's Master of Fine Arts Fellowship. She has taught English as a second language in San Francisco and Portland, and has taught poetry, English composition, and business writing at the University of Arizona. While still in high school, she received scholarships for three years to attend the Glassell School of Art in Houston. Her paintings and photographs have been exhibited in galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Capitol House in Washington D.C. as well as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Mong-Lan's poems have appeared in such literary journals as The Kenyon Review, The North American Review, New American Writing, and have been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIV; Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women (Beacon Press); Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose (Asian American Writer's Workshop); and From Both Sides Now: The Vietnam War and It's Aftermath in Poetry (Scribner). Her first book of poems, Song of the Cicadas, won the 2000 Juniper Prize and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press.

My-Van Tran

Dr. MY-VAN TRAN is Associate Professor and Coordinator, Asian Studies, School of International Studies at The University of South Australia; Director, Board of SBS; Member of National Multicultural Advisory Council (Canberra).



Nha-Trang Cong Huyen Ton Nu

An independent scholar-writer specialized in Vietnamese folklore and literature, Dr. Nha Trang has taught and lectured in Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, and the USA. Among her publications is THE MOON OF HOA BINH, a two-volume novel set in Vietnam and Japan, which she co-authored with her husband William L. Pensinger.For additional information on a CV, please visit: http://www.geocities.com/chtn_nhatrang/

Peter Zinoman

Peter Zinoman is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of California, Berkeley. A writer, editor, and translator in addition to being a scholar, his research interests include the cultural, social, and political history of Vietnam, as well as the history of twentieth-century Vietnamese literature. He is also the author of The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, .



Phuong Tran

Phuong Tran produces for The Osgood Files on CBS Radio in New York City. Born in the US in 1975, she attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. During her graduate fellowship, she worked on a part-memoir manuscript. She continues to freelance for different media and will return to Vietnam spring 2003 to work on a Discovery International documentary on wedding traditions around the world.

Thanh-Phuong Nguyen

Thanh-Phuong Nguyen is currently a PhD candidate in Finance at the University of Oklahoma

Thanh-Thanh

Real name: Nhuan Xuan Le Pen names: Thanh-Thanh, Kieu-Ngoc, Nguyet-Cam, Nguoi Tho, Tu Ngong, Le ChanNhan, POETfromVIETNAM, etc. Works: Many collections of poems published by Xay Dung which he leads and which was recognized as one of the main branches of the Vietnamese Cultural Tree at the unique pre-1975 National Cultural Festival in Saigon (capital of the former Republic of Vietnam) in the '50s. In the USA: Ve Vung Chien-Tuyen (Back to the Front Line), memoirs, Van Nghe, 1996. Con Ac-Mong (The Nightmare), poems, The- Gioi Moi and Xay-Dung, 1998. Canh-Sat-Hoa, Quoc-Sach Yeu-Tu cua Viet-Nam Cong-Hoa (The Police Plan, a prematurely-died national policy of the Republic of Vietnam), memoirs, Xay-Dung, 2002.

Thi Dang

Thi Dang, nickname is Chuso, was born in Saigon, Vietnam and came to the United States when he was 22. Now, an engineer from Intel Corp., Dang enjoyed taking pictures of anything and everything as a way to channel his creativity needs. Dang is currently living in Washington state.

Thuy Dinh

Thuy Dinh is a writer and attorney from Washington D.C. Ms. Dinh graduated cum laude with a B.A. in English and French literature from the University of Virginia (1984). She also received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law (1987). She is co-translator, with Martha Collins, of Lam Thi My Da\'s poetry in the upcoming poetry anthology Six Vietnamese Poets, published by Curbstone Press in 2001.

Thuy-Le Vuong

Thuy-Le Vuong, Ph.D in Nutrition from University of California, Davis with a minor in Epidemiology and a designed emphasis in International Nutrition. Her research interests center on influences of culture on diet; methods of assessing nutrient adequacy and nutrient bioavailability; the use of fuzzy logic and computerized decision making systems in nutritional applications; dietary assessment methodology and food composition databases. Current research focuses on the effects of dietary changes and antioxidant nutrient status of Vietnamese immigrants in Northern California.
She is currently involved in the following research projects: 1) Bioavailability of plant beta-carotene, and the use of indigenous plants and traditional cooking techniques to improve vitamin A deficiency of children in rural areas of Viet-Nam; 2) The impacts of agricultural diversification on food security of children in selected areas of northern Viet-Nam.
Selected Publications:
Vuong L., Nguyen H., Keen C, Grivetti L. Dietary Habits, Consumption Patterns and the Problem of Goiter: A study in Hai-Hung, Northern Vietnam. The FASEB Journal, p.A165, Abstract 180-224, 1995.
Grivetti L., Bui L., Vuong L. Nutrition in Vietnam: Historical Topics and Contemporary Research Opportunities. International Child Health: A Digest of Current Information. Vol. VI, No.1, 1995.

Truc Huy
http://www.geocities.com/truc_huy

Truc Huy (pseudonym of Nguyen Dinh Tham) was graduated from University of Saigon. He left Vietnam in April 1975 and currently lives in Canada with his family. He is the author of "Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature: A Preliminary Bibliography", published by Cornell University Press, 1992.



Trung-Phap Dam

Dr. Phap Dam, currently teaches linguistics and directs the undergraduate and graduate programs in Bilingual and ESL Education at Texas Woman's University.

Truong Dinh
http://TruongDinh.cjb.net
Truong Dinh was born in Saigon - capital of South Vietnam. He came to England in 1980. Graduated in 1995 at Nene University College. Currently living with his family in Northampton, United Kingdom. His complete work includes lyrical poetry, zen poetry, translated poetry, translated lyrics, and spiritual artwork. Some of his work have been published worldwide on the Internet and in print.

Uyen Nicole Duong

Uyen Nicole Duong or Duong Nhu Nguyen, was born in Hoi An Quang Nam, brought up in Hue and Saigon (former capital of South Vietnam). Uyen Nicole Duong received her B.S. in Journalism/ Communication from Southern Illinois University, J.D. from University of Houston (Texas), and LLM from Harvard Law School (Cambridge MA). She is believed to be the first Vietnamese Municipal Judge in the United States (Serving in Texas: Associate Municipal Judge, City of Houston, and Magistrate for State of Texas; honoured by the American Bar Association at "Minority Women in the Judiciary" conference -- NYC, 1992). Practicing law but she sees herself primarily as a writer, and writes in two languages: Vietnamese and English. Her pieces in Vietnamese appeared in numerous literary magazines, her English's in SongVan Magazine, and Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal. Duong Nhu Nguyen's first book, 'Mui huong que' - a collection of short stories, was published by Van Nghe Publisher in 1999. Her short story "The young woman who practiced singing" won two awards, one of which was the Stuart Miller Writing Award organised by District of Columbia Bar Association (1998). The short story "The Ghost of Ha Tay" was a finalist selection for the Columbine Award of the Moondance Film Festival 2001. Duong Nhu Nguyen also wrote articles, critiques. Her article "Gender issues in Vietnam – The Vietnamese Woman: Warrior and Poet" appeared in the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, University of Washington, College of Law, March 2001.

Publications:

  • Mui huong que (short story collection. CA: Van Nghe Publisher, 1999)
  • Gender issues in Vietnam – The Vietnamese Woman: Warrior and Poet (Article. University of Washington, College of Law: Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal March 2001).
  • The woman who practiced singing (short story. Songvan Magazine, 1998)
  • The Ghost of Ha Tay (short story. Wordbridge Magazine, 2002)


Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung
http://ling.uta.edu/~taiffalo
Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung is currently a Ph.D candidate in the linguistics program at the University of Texas at Arlington. His area of study is sociolinguistics, and major research interests are literacy and orthography, and language reform and planning in the Hanji sphere, including Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and China.

Xiaorong Han

Dr. Xiaorong Han teaches at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu. His research interests include: Peasants and Ethnic Minorities, Modern China and Southeast Asia; Nationalist and Communist Movements, Modern East and Southeast Asia; Sino-Vietnamese Relations: Past and Present; General and Comparative History, East and Southeast Asia.

Xuan Duong

Xuan Duong is a founder of INTEGRATION, the Magazine for Multicultural & Vietnamese Issues, published in Australia, email: . Not Like Those! is published in Hey, I Got A Racist Flu!, a book of poems written by the author, mostly about the experiences from students of Vietnamese origin of being discriminated against or bullied on the basis of race and cultural differences.

Xuan Voi Nguyen

Xuan Voi Nguyen




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