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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Tracing the ties that connect diasporic Vietnamese to each other and to their homeland<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439906798&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Transnationalizing Viet Nam</h1>
<H2>Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora</H2>
<h3>Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde</h3>
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</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Bridging Asian Studies and Asian American Studies, </I>Transnationalizing Viet Nam<I> is a rich and nuanced study of transnational linkages between Viet Nam and its diaspora in the United States. Through fascinating case studies of Vietnamese popular music productions, Internet virtual communities, diasporic art and community politics, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde provides a rare glimpse into how Vietnamese have connected their worlds and made meanings for themselves." </I><br>—<b>Yen Le Espiritu</b>, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego</I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Vietnamese diasporic relations affect—and are directly affected by—events in Viet Nam. In <i>Transnationalizing Viet Nam</i>, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding of this globalized community. Valverde draws on 250 interviews and almost two decades of research to show the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back at the homeland.
<P>Arguing that Vietnamese immigrant lives are inherently transnational, she shows how their acts form virtual communities via the Internet, organize social movements, exchange music and create art, find political representation, and even dissent. Valverde also exposes how generational, gender, class, and political tensions threaten to divide the ethnic community.
<P><i>Transnationalizing Viet Nam</i> paints a vivid picture of the complex political and personal allegiances that exist within Vietnamese America and shape the relations between this heterogeneous community and its country of origin.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><I>"</I>Transnationalizing Viet Nam<I> greatly broadens our understanding of diasporic networks, transnationalism, and the Vietnamese diaspora. Valverde uniquely documents, over two decades, the tentative relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those located in the homeland. She paints a vivid picture of the complex political landscape that influences diasporic members’ personal decisions and convincingly demonstrates that scholarship on ‘the immigrant experience’ and racial and/or ethnic identity must always take into account both the immigrants’ memories and present conceptions of both their ‘homeland’ and their homeland’s culture in relation to their perceptions of and actual experiences in the ‘host’ country."</I><br>—<b>Emily Noelle Ignacio</b>, author of <i>Building Diaspora</i>; past Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities; and Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, Tacoma
<p><i>"The book offers the first 'insider' perspective that grapples candidly with Vietnamese American community formations, particularly its anticommunist politics. It serves as an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in understanding the Vietnamese American community, but also offers a model that adeptly bridges Area Studies research with Asian American Studies through the framework of transnationalism.... [A]n important foundation for the study of Vietnamese diaspora."</i> <br>—<b><i>Amerasia</i></b>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Preface
<br>Acknowledgments
<br>1. Transnationalizing Viet Nam
<br>2. Popular Music: <i>Sounds of Home Resistance and Change</i>
<br>3. Social Transformations from Virtual Communities
<br>4. Defying and Redefining Vietnamese Diasporic Art and Media as Seen through Chau Huynh's Creations
<br>5. Whose Community Is It Anyway? <i>Overseas Vietnamese Negotiating Their Cultural and Political Identity: The Case of Vice-Mayor Madison Nguyen</i>
<br>6. Vietnamese Diaspora Revisited
<br>Notes
<br>References
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde</b> is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.</P>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/asian_amer.html" TARGET="_top">Asian American Studies</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/asian.html" TARGET="_top">Asian Studies</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/asam_history.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Asian American History and Culture</a></i>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Vő.
</p><p>The "standard" written histories of Asian immigrants to the United States have been imbued with Western cultural biases. As a critique and corrective to earlier work, <I>Asian American History and Culture</I>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Vő, aims to develop a history of Asian Americans that is compatible with their own experience, that treats Asian Americans as agents of historical change and as creators of a new culture. In addition, this series intends to focus on the groups that are flourishing in the contemporary U.S.—Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese—about whom little has been written as well as to add to the substantial work done on the Chinese and Japanese in this country.</p>
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