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This poignant collection of oral histories tells the stories of nine Laotians, four Cambodians and nine Vietnamese: what their lives were like before 1975, what happened after the Communist takeover that made them decide to flee their native countries, and how they escaped.The storytellers (housewife, Amerasian child, schoolteacher, government clerk, military officer, security agent, Buddhist monk, artist) create a broad and moving picture of the new realities of contemporary Indochina.
A Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, Joanna Catherine Scott is also a novelist and a prizewinning poet. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Table of ContentsPreface Vietnam-Land of the Boat PeopleIn Favor of FreedomNguyen van Lau Saved by the Esso CompanyReverence Tam Minh My Father Called Me FreddyFreddy Nguyen The Hope of Ho Chi Minh Is FallenMr. Le Finally It Was All aName withheld They Came to Rob and KillThich nu grac Huong Americans Missing in ActionMr. Champamay Even the Lampposts Nguyen Thi Yen Nga It Is Lost, My CountryTran van Xinh Cambodia-Land of the Killing FieldsAll the People of Khmer Were Very TroubledVen Yem My Mother, My SisterThe Story of Samol Him They Liked Only the Stupid PeopleHim Mao The Snake Who Became a RefugeeTold by Lucy These Vietnamese Are No Better Than PolHeng Houn The Eyes That WatchedAdeach Pok Weep for My ChildrenTold by Nina Laos -Land of the Seminar CampsNot So Wonderful Was That TimeKhamsamong Somvong Their Words Hide All That IsSoukan Vignauong For Ten Years He HadBounsy and Samly Khamphouy Hidden to the People of the WorldKhoun Phauorabouth Keep Them Until TheyBoukeo Bounnam The News CollectorName withheld Nobody Can Speak Against ThemSaeng Praseuth and Sisouphanh Ravisong The Jail of Keng KanhVanhthong Mountry The Hell of KaisoneName withheld MapsIndochina Viengxay Area Seminar Camps Sketch showing location of Keng Kanh jail Location of Sepone area helicopter wreck (Laos) Appendix: Viengxay Area SeminaristsCamp 03 Camp 04 Camp 05 Camp 06 Index
“recommended for most libraries”—Library Journal; “a perspective which is totally new...informative...original historical research”—VOYA.
