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Title: Hmong Means Free: Life Laos and America (Asian American History and Culture) by Sucheng Chan ISBN: 1-56639-163-6 Publisher: Temple University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hmong History
Comment: The stories in this book were true story for the Hmong. If you didn't know who are Hmong and where they came from. You better read this book. It is every a good book. After you read this book, you also get information from Hmong culture. The book talked about Hmong history from China, joined with CIA when the Vietnam War, how hard their lives and also how hard they had moved from country to country. The book also included story by each person. After I read the stories in this book, I felt very interesting and enjoying with.
Hmong Means Free, because Hmong was a group that didn't like to live by law control. For me, I understand that Hmong had joined the law when general Vang Pao become a Hmong leader. He was the first one that forced the Hmong to join with the law and had education with other foreign people.
Rating: 4
Summary: Cried and laughed all at once.
Comment: The author's intro was informative but lacks passion (some day, a Hmong author may be able to do a more passionate job on our plight).
The narratives were honest and sincere. There was no "sugar-coating"--I know! The narratives had a single common denominator: the sufferings of the human condition. Throughout the narration, I cried and laughed all at once. I cried: all the sufferings. I laughed: when one of the narratives failed the drivers' written test (in California) the first time because after she took the test, she didn't even realized it was in Spanish until her husband told her--she did not know Spanish.
The book gave me a sense of my history in a personal and down-to-earth way. The book is an excellent reference.
Rating: 5
Summary: Helping young Hmong Americans find and identity...
Comment: I work in the healthcare field and have seen quite a few young (teenage +) Hmong Americans struggling with their sense of value. In particular, a young girl who had been "Americanized" AKA taken from her family when she was young because of supposed abuse - a common practice not that long ago. She was depressed, living with a loving but very white family in which she felt inferior. Asian gang activities in our area made her feel embarrassed. This book put a spark back in her eyes. I found it wonderful and would highly recommend it.
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Title: Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans by Mai Neng Moua ISBN: 0873514378 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992 by Jane Hamilton-Merritt ISBN: 0253207568 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: I Begin My Life All over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience by Ghia Xiong ISBN: 0807072354 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat: The Hmong and America's Secret War in Laos by Keith Quincy ISBN: 0910055602 Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story by Pegi Deitz Shea ISBN: 0618247483 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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