Viet Kieu Resources
From: Stephen Denney <sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: vsg@u.washington.edu
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 6:34 PM
I am writing a paper on Vietnam library and electronic resources here at Berkeley and on internet. Our library here at Berkeley has quite an extensive and growing collection of books and serials from Vietnam. But we don't seem to have many books or other publications of overseas Vietnamese. I wonder if anyone here might know what is out there? I know there are some Vietnamese bookstores in the Bay Area, particularly San Jose, which I plan to visit. From past observation, I also know that many overseas Vietnamese serials and books are published on a shoestring budget. Anyway, I wonder particularly about memoirs and personal narratives, and also other works by overseas Vietnamese that might supplement our collection here as well as at other university libraries that are acquiring publications from Vietnam. Any comment would be appreciated.
- Steve Denney
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From: Hoang t. Dieu-Hien <dieuhien@u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Check out Nha xuat ban Xuan Thu
http://www.go2viet.com/display.asp?bar=1&display=producer&ProducerID=60&ProducerName=XUAN+THU+
There are a few others, but I don't have the information currently.
Are you looking for Vietnamese language publication specifically or all publications by overseas Vietnamese?
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From: Nguyen Qui Duc <DNguyen@kqed.org>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Attachments: winmail.dat
Dear Stephen,
Please contact Isabelle Pelaud and visit the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University. In 2001 we donated most of my father's Vietnamese-language books, which included a lot of memoirs, literary journals (Van, Van Hoc Nghe Thuat, Hop Luu), many are from Nha Xuat Ban Van Nghe - one of the major ones in the overseas community. Its website is not current, unfortunately: http://home.pacbell.net/vannghe/
I also donated half of my own collection before leaving the U.S., which included many such titles as well.
This might be a helpful introduction.
I am also wondering whether you are looking for Vietnamese language publication specifically or all publications by overseas Vietnamese? I can forward a selected bibliography with titles in English if you'd like.
Best wishes,
duc
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From: Stephen Denney <sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Thanks to Duc and Hoang for the helpful information. I was not aware of the center at SF State. What I had in mind were materials produced by overseas Vietnamese that might supplement Vietnam holdings at our library and other university libraries, whether the works are in Vietnamese or other languages.
- Steve Denney
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From: Judith Henchy <judithh@u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: Judith Henchy <judithh@u.washington.edu>, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Steve raises a good point. The major Southeast Asia collections at US research libraries have not focused so much on Vietnamese American resources in the past, often because such materials have been the responsibility of an Ethnic Studies librarian. This division of responsibilities, which also reflects the somewhat problematic administrative and structural relationships between the academic disciplines themselves, has disadvantaged these materials, which have been a priority for neither the Ethnic Studies librarian (whose focus has often been on Japanese and Chinese American studies), nor the Southeast Asian studies curator.
Here in Seattle we had tended to rely on collections of Vietnamese American materials purchased by the public library systems. Such public library collections have included subscriptions to local newspapers, but these libraries have neither the resources nor the incentive to preserve the materials for their archival value, and have thrown them out after a few months. We have been fortunate recently, (through the kind intervention of family members of the editors) to have been promised access to one local newspaper, Người Việt Tây Bắc for microfilming, but another, Phương Đông, is no longer extant, even at the publisher. Some local newspapers from various heritage communities have been filmed as part of the former NEH-funded National Newspaper Project, but many are not held in libraries at all.
I would love to see Nguyễn Quí Đức's list of resources, and am glad to know that some libraries have been focusing on these materials, with the assistance of kind donations of materials such as his.
Best
Judith
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From: Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong <nguyenvo@humnet.ucla.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Attachments: winmail.dat
Dear Stephen,
A. Frank runs (or Dan Tsang now?) the SEA Archive at UCI where many Vietnamese diasporic books, newspapers, and other papers are deposited. Tu Luc bookstore also has a website with titles for purchase. Van Nghe is another (although I have never tried them on the net). Various journals and newspapers are on the web as well and I can make some suggestions if you're interested.
best,
Huong
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From: Phan Chan <phan@fas.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: phan@fas.harvard.edu, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Stephen,
You can check out Van Khoa, 9200 Bolsa Ave., Ste 123, Westminster, CA 92683, tel: (714) 892-0801 and
Lang Van P.O. Box 218 Station "U", Toronto, Ontario MZ-5P, Canada or WWW.langvan.net, tel.: (905)309-8566 0r (647) 271-8010.
Chan Phan
Vietnamese Collection
Harvard Yenching Library
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