The Vietnamese Australians - Tran, Hien Minh Thi
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The Vietnamese Australians: Culture, History, Entertainment, Food gives the readers an unforgettable insight into daily life and into the strong web of relationships that form the framework of one Vietnamese Australian family's story and their inherent strength. It documents for posterity what it was like to grow up during the wars and to leave our motherland in dangerous journeys to Australia. It presents a brief history of the Vietnamese Australians' culture, entertainment and food and the positive influences of the Vietnamese culture and customs on people in Australia over five decades. It…mehr

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The Vietnamese Australians: Culture, History, Entertainment, Food gives the readers an unforgettable insight into daily life and into the strong web of relationships that form the framework of one Vietnamese Australian family's story and their inherent strength. It documents for posterity what it was like to grow up during the wars and to leave our motherland in dangerous journeys to Australia. It presents a brief history of the Vietnamese Australians' culture, entertainment and food and the positive influences of the Vietnamese culture and customs on people in Australia over five decades. It recounts the events and persons that have featured in Minh Hien's and her parents' lives, illustrated with colourful photos. Readers will also gain knowledge of Vietnamese cultural symbols and the symbolic meanings of many Vietnamese New Year Tet dishes.This book tells a heart-warming story of Minh Hien and her parents and their close associations. The book provides a brief history of Viet Nam and ample materials on Vietnamese culture, heritage, entertainments and food and the war in which the Australians became heavily involved. Also lighter topics of embroidery and dresses are covered with photographs of beautiful ao dai, the traditional costume for Vietnamese women. and the Vietnamese food, presented along with elucidation of their salient features, cultural symbols and their symbolic meanings.It is released on 21 September 2024 to celebrate the International Day of Peace.
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Minh Hi¿n is an educator, a researcher and the author of The Vietnamese Australians: Traditions, Education, Tenacity and My Heritage: Vietnam fatherland motherland. She was selected to participate in the 2023 Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) short-listed Publishable program and was long-listed in the QWC Publishable program in 2022, the 2021 Fellowship & Access Manuscript Development initiative through the QWC, the 2019 Hardcopy National Professional Development Program initiative through the ACT Writers Centre to write her memoir. In 2006, she was awarded an Australian Society of Authors Mentorship and was mentored by Judith Lukin-Amundsen while completing a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. She has worked as an engineer, an IT consultant, a systems accountant, a systems manager and a family business manager and owner. While working, she studied for university qualifications in the fields of Engineering, Accounting, Commerce, Management, Arts, and Education and completed a qualification as a professional member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (CPA). She holds a Master of Education, a Master of Higher Education, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing, a Master of Commerce, a Master of Engineering Science, a Graduate Diploma in Management, a Graduate Conversion Course qualification in Accounting and a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours, from universities in NSW, VIC, QLD and TAS. She is featured in the 2008 Who's Who in Tasmania.