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Beyond Self-Satire : Linh Dinh and Contemporary American Ethnic Fiction
No full textThe main concern of contemporary ethnic fiction in the United States has been the opposition between the ethnic group to which the author and/or characters belong and the mainstream American society. In the 1980s and 1990s, the decades which saw the rise of so many -- predominantly female -- writers from various minority backgrounds, ethnic literature tended to champion values and traditions of the writer\u27s own ethnicity and deprecate those of the mainstream society. This sometimes resulted in simplistic self-affirmation, a trap into which lesser writers tended to fall. Better writers, however, including Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese-American) and Sandra Cisneros (Chicano-American), managed to evade this trap by somehow relativizing their own viewpoint. Among newer writers appearing in the twenty-first century, the Vietnamese-American writer Linh Dinh presents an interesting case: Dinh satirizes his own background just as fiercely as mainstream American culture, and out of this double satire appears a paradoxical sense of celebration.論文Article
Nguyễn Thi Linh video oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation and donated to the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes video recordings of interviews with Vietnamese Americans native to or living in Texas. This interview forms part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation.Nguyễn Thi Linh was born in My Tho, where she studied at an all girls’ school. She is an only child. Her father fled to England after losing his brother due to war, leaving Linh with her mother and grandmother at around the age of four or five. She stayed with her maternal relatives while she studied in My Tho because she could not focus in Saigon. Her fondest memory from her childhood is picking the fresh fruit from her grandmother’s garden and eating them straight from the branch. After her career in My Tho, she moved to Saigon to be with her mother. She did not pursue a higher education after graduating in 1966. She tells of her childhood memories of war, such as being caught in the middle of guerilla warfare between Viet Cong and Cong Hoa forces. Nguyễn Thi Linh married in 1972 to her husband who was a Cong Hoa pilot; they went on to have two girls, the first born in 1972. After the Fall of Saigon in 1975, Linh converted to the Buddhist faith. Linh fled Vietnam with her children and sought temporary refuge in England to be with her father, while her husband fled to America and worked to sponsor Linh and their daughters to America. Linh and her daughters arrived to the United States in 1982. Shortly after reuniting with her husband in Houston, Texas, the two got a divorce in 1983, which Linh recalls to be the greatest challenge in her life. After Linh's divorce, an American sponsor helped her find housing and food. Linh then was able to work while going to school for accounting while raising her two daughters. She then worked as a social worker and eventually received funds to open her own office where she served as the director for 16 years. Nguyen Thi Linh enjoys music and poetry and used to write short stories in her free time. Linh retired in 2009 and has spent her time traveling around the world. She believes that understanding the Vietnamese language is crucial to understanding Vietnamese people and culture. Trinh proceeded to obtain a law degree when he graduated from law school in 1958. In the same year, he joined the army and was stationed at Ban Me Thuot until 1968. Trinh spoke of the differences between the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem versus that of President Nguyen Van Thieu; he recalls that Vietnam seemed more peaceful during the office of President Diem. During President Thieu's reign, both the Viet Cong and American forcers were more active, and the war became stronger. Trinh had worked with Americans during his time in the army, and he mentions that they were not only very helpful but were always willing to help. Trinh's brother was also in the South Vietnamese army. He and his son escaped by boat and went missing; to this day, they have not been found. Trinh is currently processing the sponsorship of his younger brother and sister. Five families of his younger siblings are already in America; one of Trinh's siter died while in Vietnam and another sister has too large of a family and cannot leave Vietnam
Random matrices and random boxes
No full textThis thesis concerns two questions on random structures: the semi-circular law for adjacency matrix of regular random graph and the piercing number for random boxes. Random matrices: We proved in full generality the semi-circular law for random d-regular graph model in the case d tends to infinity as n does. Our result complements the McKay law [19], which applied for the case d is an absolute constant. Random boxes. Take n random boxes with axis-parallel edges inside the unit cube [0; 1][superscript]d, the piercing number is the minimum number of points needed to pierce all boxes. Using hypergraph setting, we was able to prove a near sharp estimation for the piercing number. This thesis is based on two papers by the author [31] and [30] (joint work with Van Vu and Ke Wang).Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Linh V. Tra
Interview with Mai-Linh Hong
No full textMai-Linh Hong is a Vietnamese American woman, she was born in Vietnam and grew up near Washington D.C. Hong is an author, editor, and Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Merced. Prior to joining the Auntie Sewing Squad, she ran an Etsy shop and its proceeds went to anti-racist and feminist organizations. As an Auntie, she actively donates masks but is also currently co-editing the Auntie Sewing Squad’s new book.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/auntiesewing_interviews/1040/thumbnail.jp
Investigating diversity of botanic resource at Linh Thong commune, Dinh Hoa district, Thai Nguyen province
No full textLinh Thong is a commune located at the North of Dinh Hoa district, Thai Nguyen province. Local people of the commune are mainly rely on agriculture and forestry products. The areas of forest are mainly on rocky mountains. Our survey showed that there are 121 species belonging to 110 sub-branches, 65 families of 4 branches of high-developed vessel botany in Dinh Hoa forest. Of the total plant living forms, there are mainly trees, brushes, soft-stems and creepers. Among those, the trees and soft-stems are highest. Based on the use values, Plant species can be categorized to the following groups: giving wood, medicine and food (species giving fruit and wild vegetables), decoration, oil essence. At the present, the plant resource is over-exploited by inhabitants and it may result in the risk of exhausting, thus measurements of conservation of this resource are needed immediately
sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X231168481 - Supplemental material for Volatile Components and Biological Activities of <i>n</i>-Hexane Extract From Rhizomes of <i>Homalomena cochinchinensis</i>
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X231168481 for Volatile Components and Biological Activities of n-Hexane Extract From Rhizomes of Homalomena cochinchinensis by Linh Thuy Khanh Nguyen, Phu Quynh Dinh Nguyen, Nghia Ai Thi Doan, Chau Bao Hoai Nguyen, Tuan Quoc Doan, Linh Thuy Thi Tran, Hoai Thi Nguyen and Duc Viet Ho in Natural Product Communications</p
sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X231175263 - Supplemental material for Phytochemical Composition and Bioactivities of Essential Oils from Rhizomes of <i>Homalomena pendula</i> and <i>Homalomena cochinchinensis</i>
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X231175263 for Phytochemical Composition and Bioactivities of Essential Oils from Rhizomes of Homalomena pendula and Homalomena cochinchinensis by Linh Thuy Khanh Nguyen, Tuan Quoc Doan and
Phu Quynh Dinh Nguyen, Chau Bao Hoai Nguyen, Linh Thuy Thi Tran, Thi Van Anh Tran, Hoai Thi Nguyen, Duc Viet Ho in Natural Product Communications</p
THE ROLE OF DONORS IN VIETNAMESE DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
No full textAlthough it remains a one-party state, Vietnam has become one of the most popular host countries for multilateral and bilateral aid donors during the past decade. Vietnam¡¯s popularity is largely explained by the fact that it perceived as a good aid recipient, and it has often been identified as a ¡°best practice¡± example of how a government can manage external aid and own its development agenda. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the roots of Vietnam¡¯s strong ownership and to examine how the relations between the state and the donor community have influenced Vietnamese development planning. The first part of the paper highlights the uneven relation with the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s as an explanation for the present ambitions to avoid dependence on foreign partners. The second part outlines the institutional setup for development planning that was created to match the existing institutions for central planning during the 1990s. The third part discusses the ongoing changes in the role of the state and in the institutional setup for development planning. The process of change is illustrated using the Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy as an example. The paper concludes that donors have contributed both directly and indirectly to the changes in the Vietnamese model of economic planning, and that the donor community has to some extent taken on the roles played by civil society and a political opposition in parliamentary democracies.Vietnam; development planning; ODA
Heterogeneity in behavioural response to pricing policies in the transition from motorcycles to private cars in motorcycle-based societies
No full textPricing instruments are widely seen as an effective tool for reducing the travel demand for private vehicles. In contrast to developed countries, the design of pricing policies in certain developing countries is more challenging, owing to the mixed use of private cars and motorcycles. This study argues for the existence of a transitional group of motorcycle users who will switch to being car users. An investigation of the behavioural responses to a pricing policy from private car users and motorcycle users is implemented in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A propensity score-matching technique is used to identify the transitional group. The results regarding the mode choice models for various pricing policies show similar responses between the transitional motorcycle users and car users. Such characteristics of the transitional group imply that ignorance of travellers' heterogeneity may cause significant bias, especially when modelling pricing policies.This research was financed by the Special Research Fund of Hasselt University.
Financial support in data collection: Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies (HIDS)
Author contribution: The authors confirm contribution to the paper as follows: study concept and design: Hoang Thuy Linh, Nguyen Hoang Tung, Vu Anh Tuan, Muhammad Adnan, and Tom Bellemans; data preparation, analysis, and interpretation of results: Hoang Thuy Linh; draft manuscript preparation: Hoang Thuy Linh, Nguyen Hoang Tung, and Muhammad Adnan. All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript
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