Sucheng Chan

Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees that describes their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. It reflects on the homes left behind and chronicles the difficulties of forging a new identity.

Produktdetails

• Asian American History & Cultu
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 267
• Erscheinungstermin: April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781566391634
• ISBN-10: 1566391636
• Artikelnr.: 21827091

Autorenporträt

Sucheng Chan, Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is general editor of Temple's Asian American History and Culture Series.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Illustrations 
Preface 
Acknowledgements 
Personal and Place Names 
Introduction: The Hmong Experience in Asia and the United States 
1. The Xiong Family of Goleta 
2. The Xiong Family of Lompoc 
3. The Fang Family of San Diego 
4. The Tcha Family of Fresno 
5. The Maua Family of Sanger 
Notes to the Introduction 
Selected Bibliography 
Notes on the Editor and Transcribers/Translators