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Author : Mark Phillip Yablonka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780182202492
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Tears Across the Mekong written by Mark Phillip Yablonka and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elaine Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732499461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Across the Mekong River written by Elaine Russell and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong family escaped from Laos after the Communist takeover. The story follows the Lees from a squalid refugee camp in Thailand to a new life in Minnesota and eventually California. Family members struggle to survive in a strange foreign land, haunted by the scars of war and loss of family. Across the Mekong River paints a vivid picture of the Hmong immigrant experience, exploring family love, sacrifice, and the resiliency of the human spirit to overcome tragic circumstances.
Author : Yer J. Lo
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161897906X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The Crying River written by Yer J. Lo and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yer believed that her life would be peaceful and wonderful forever; that she would always be surrounded by family and friends in a small village. When the Secret War ended, American troops deserted her people and a sudden oppression from the Communists forced Yer and her family to flee into the jungle. There, they faced many hardships and must risk crossing a deadly river for a chance at freedom. Based on actual events, this stunning book stresses the importance of family. Yer's mother is the strength and glue that holds everyone together, showing unending courage and faith despite illness, starvation, exhaustion and fear of enemy detection. "The Crying River is an incredible story. Yer shows what it was like to be a Hmong living in Laos after the Secret War, describing the hardships and sacrifices so candidly that I cried. It's one thing to hear history in terms of the facts and dates, but reliving it through a young girl's eyes makes it come alive like nothing else can. This story is one that deserves to be read, not just to learn about one girl's childhood journey, but also to hear the voices of the Hmong, whose similar stories might never be told." -
Author : Milton Osborne
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196098
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Mekong written by Milton Osborne and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “remarkable” history of the great river of Southeast Asia (Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain). The Mekong River runs over nearly three thousand miles, beginning in the mountains of Tibet and flowing through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam before emptying into the China Sea. Its waters are the lifeblood of Southeast Asia, and first begot civilization on the fertile banks of its delta region at Oc Eo nearly two millennia ago. This is the story of the peoples and cultures of the great river, from these obscure beginnings to the emergence of today’s independent nations. Drawing on research gathered over forty years, Milton Osborne traces the Mekong’s dramatic history through the rise and fall of civilizations and the era of colonization and exploration. He details the struggle for liberation during a twentieth century in which Southeast Asia has seen almost constant conflict, including two world wars, the Indochina War, the Vietnam War, and its bloody aftermath—and explores the prospects for peace and prosperity as the region enters a new millennium. Along the way, he brings to life those who witnessed and shaped events along the river, including Chou Ta-kuan, the thirteenth-century Chinese envoy who recorded the glory of Angkor Wat, the capital of the Khmer Empire; the Iberian mercenaries Blas Ruiz and Diego Veloso, whose involvement in the intrigues of Cambodia’s royal family shook Southeast Asia’s politics in the sixteenth century; and the revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh, whose campaigns to liberate Vietnam from the French and unify the nation under communism changed the course of history. “[A] pathbreaking, ecologically informed chronicle . . . A pulsating journey through the heart of Southeast Asia.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Dee Ratsapho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692627730
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Freedom Across the Mekong written by Dee Ratsapho and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With communist forces poised to overtake her home country of Laos, and her father already sent off to die in the work camps, six-year-old Dee, her mother, and her siblings begin the unthinkable act of escaping the only place they know and love.Then after a chance meeting with an American priest, Dee's mother makes the difficult decision to relocate them all to America - a distant land they had only herd about.What follows is the heart-wrenching story of family bonds, hope and survival. It's a story of courage, racism, and abandoned personal and cultural identity. It's the story of a young woman trying to come to terms with who she is in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. And it's the story of a shocking and unlikely reunion that would change everything.
Author : Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566892627
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Latehomecomer written by Kao Kalia Yang and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard. Beginning in the 1970s, as the Hmong were being massacred for their collaboration with the United States during the Vietnam War, Yang recounts the harrowing story of her family’s captivity, the daring rescue undertaken by her father and uncles, and their narrow escape into Thailand where Yang was born in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp. When she was six years old, Yang’s family immigrated to America, and she evocatively captures the challenges of adapting to a new place and a new language. Through her words, the dreams, wisdom, and traditions passed down from her grandmother and shared by an entire community have finally found a voice. Together with her sister, Kao Kalia Yang is the founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang has recently screened The Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees. Visit her website at www.kaokaliayang.com.
Author : Ngo The Vinh
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450239374
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Mekong—The Occluding River written by Ngo The Vinh and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travelogue, part history, and part environmental treatise, Mekong The Occluding River is above all else an urgent warning that factors such as pollution, ecological devastation, and the depletion of natural resources are threatening the very existence of the Mekong River. Author Ngo The Vinh combines his vivid travel notes and collection of photographs with a meticulously researched history of the environmental degradation of the Mekong River. Translated from Vietnamese, the best-selling treatise outlines the myriad threats facing the river today. From oil shipments feeding the industrial cities of southwestern China to gigantic hydroelectric dams known as the Mekong Cascades in Yunnan province, China is the worst environmental offender, though the other nations along Mekongs banks behave no better. From Thailand to Laos to Vietnam, hydroelectric dams that threaten the Mekong and its inhabitants are being built at an alarming rate. To save the Mekong, Ngo The Vinh calls upon all the nations that benefit from its life-giving water to observe the Spirit of the Mekong in the implementation of all future development projects. To achieve this end, there must be a concerted and sustained commitment to cooperation and sustainability. At this critical cross-roads, we should remind ourselves of the mantra from Sea World San Diego: Extinction is forever. Endangered means we still have time.
Author : Milton Osborne
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741764610
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Mekong written by Milton Osborne and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mekong is one of the world's great rivers, and by far the largest in Southeast Asia. Empires have risen and fallen in the lands through which the Mekong flows and it has been linked to remarkable adventure and exploration as well as war and massacre. Now that Indochina is at peace, new dangers threaten the river's future. For more than forty years Milton Osborne has been fascinated by the Mekong and its history. He has lived beside it, travelled on it and written an acclaimed account of its exploration in the nineteenth century. Here he recounts the history of the river from its earliest times to the present, a history full of the stories of remarkable men-Spanish and Portuguese freebooters and missionaries who briefly held the fate of Cambodia in their hands; French explorers who were recognised in the nineteenth century as the equal of Burton and Livingstone, but are now largely forgotten even in France; a martyred Cambodian monsignor and an Australian-educated Vietnamese reflecting on communist rule. In the present century the Mekong has been at the heart of two wars, while one of the lands along its course, Cambodia, witnessed the terrible tyranny of the Pol Pot regime. While the author's own original research has shaped his writing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book is a masterly distillation of the river's history from the earliest times to the present. A new chapter brings this edition up to date on recent developments in the region.
Author : Laura Manivong
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061661775
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Escaping the Tiger written by Laura Manivong and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're so skinny people call you Skeleton Boy, how do you find strength for the fight of your life? Vonlai knows that soldiers who guard the Mekong River shoot at anything that moves, but in oppressive Communist Laos, there's nothing left for him, his spirited sister, Dalah, and his desperate parents. Their only hope is a refugee camp in Thailand—on the other side of the river. When they reach the camp, their struggles are far from over. Na Pho is a forgotten place where life consists of squalid huts, stifling heat, and rationed food. Still, Vonlai tries to carry on as if everything is normal. He pays attention in school, a dusty barrack overcrowded with kids too hungry to learn. And, to forget his empty stomach, he plays soccer in a field full of rocks. But when someone inside the camp threatens his family, Vonlai calls on a forbidden skill to protect their future—a future he's sure is full of promise, if only they can make it out of Na Pho alive. In her compelling debut, Laura Manivong has written an evocative story that is vividly real, strongly affecting, and, at its heart, about hope that resonates in even the darkest moments.
Author : Herbert Warington Smyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam written by Herbert Warington Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Alan Johnson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012358
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Mekong Dreaming written by Andrew Alan Johnson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mekong River has undergone vast infrastructural changes in recent years, including the construction of dams across its main stream. These projects, along with the introduction of new fish species, changing political fortunes, and international migrant labor, have all made a profound impact upon the lives of those residing on the great river. It also impacts how they dream. In Mekong Dreaming, Andrew Alan Johnson explores the changing relationship between the river and the residents of Ban Beuk, a village on the Thailand-Laos border, by focusing on the effect that construction has had on human and inhuman elements of the villagers' world. Johnson shows how inhabitants come to terms with the profound impact that remote, intangible, and yet powerful forces—from global markets and remote bureaucrats to ghosts, spirits, and gods—have on their livelihoods. Through dreams, migration, new religious practices, and new ways of dwelling on a changed river, inhabitants struggle to understand and affect the distant, the inassimilable, and the occult, which offer both sources of power and potential disaster.
Author : Alexander Dent
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391090
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book River of Tears written by Alexander Dent and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A revival of folkloric rural music called música caipira, heralded as música sertaneja’s ancestor, also took shape. And all the while, large numbers of Brazilians in the central-south were moving to cities, using music to support the claim that their Brazil was first and foremost a rural nation. Since 1998, Alexander Sebastian Dent has analyzed rural music in the state of São Paulo, interviewing and spending time with listeners, musicians, songwriters, journalists, record-company owners, and radio hosts. Dent not only describes the production and reception of this music, he also explains why the genre experienced such tremendous growth as Brazil transitioned from an era of dictatorship to a period of intense neoliberal reform. Dent argues that rural genres reflect a widespread anxiety that change has been too radical and has come too fast. In defining their music as rural, Brazil’s country musicians—whose work circulates largely in cities—are criticizing an increasingly inescapable urban life characterized by suppressed emotions and an inattentiveness to the past. Their performances evoke a river of tears flowing through a landscape of loss—of love, of life in the countryside, and of man’s connections to the natural world.
Author : Edward Gargan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780375705595
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The River's Tale written by Edward Gargan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other’s presence. Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and reshaped by a universal sea, was re-forming itself, or was being remolded, was expanding its horizons or sinking under the rising waters of a cultural global warming. It was a journey between worlds, worlds fragiley conjoined by a river both ominous and luminescent, muscular and bosomy, harsh and sensuous. From windswept plateaus to the South China Sea, the Mekong flows for three thousand miles, snaking its way through Southeast Asia. Long fascinated with this part of the world, former New York Times correspondent Edward Gargan embarked on an ambitious exploration of the Mekong and those living within its watershed. The River’s Tale is a rare and profound book that delivers more than a correspondent’s account of a place. It is a seminal examination of the Mekong and its people, a testament to the their struggles, their defeats and their victories.
Author : Brian Eyler
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 178360722X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Last Days of the Mighty Mekong written by Brian Eyler and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its basin is home to more than 70 million people and has for centuries been one of the world's richest agricultural areas and a biodynamic wonder. Today, however, it is undergoing profound changes. Development policies, led by a rising China in particular, aim to interconnect the region and urbanize the inhabitants. And a series of dams will harness the river's energy, while also stymieing its natural cycles and cutting off food supplies for swathes of the population. In Last Days of the Mighty Mekong, Brian Eyler travels from the river's headwaters in China to its delta in southern Vietnam to explore its modern evolution. Along the way he meets the region’s diverse peoples, from villagers to community leaders, politicians to policy makers. Through conversations with them he reveals the urgent struggle to save the Mekong and its unique ecosystem.
Author : Wasana Wongsurawat
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295746262
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Crown and the Capitalists written by Wasana Wongsurawat and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand—or Siam, as it was formerly known—has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography has placed progress—or lack thereof—toward Western-style liberal democracy at the center of Thailand’s narrative, but that view underestimates the importance of the colonial context. In particular, a long-standing relationship with China and the existence of a large and important Chinese diaspora within Thailand have shaped development at every stage. As the emerging nation struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs were neither a colonial force against whom Thainess was identified, nor had they been able to fully assimilate into Thai society. Wasana Wongsurawat demonstrates that the Kingdom of Thailand’s transformation into a modern nation-state required the creation of a national identity that justified not only the hegemonic rule of monarchy but also the involvement of the ethnic Chinese entrepreneurial class upon whom it depended. Her revisionist view traces the evolution of this codependent relationship through the twentieth century, as Thailand struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, found itself an ally of Japan in World War II, and reconsidered its relationship with China in the postwar era.
Author : Stan "Sesser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571430700
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Life Along the Mekong : Asia's River People from China to Vietnam written by Stan "Sesser and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mekong river flows from the remote headwaters of China through Laos, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to spill out into the South China Sea. This book journeys from hidden tribes to cities about to be buried under new reservoirs, to cut a time line through this Asian region.
Author : Mary Albanese
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0956832288
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (568 download)
Download or read book THE GIRL WITH TEN NAMES written by Mary Albanese and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Chua Lee, a plucky eight-year-old girl who in 1979 was forced to flee war-torn Laos. Escaping into the jungle with her family, she walked across her country dodging gunfire, landmines, and a deadly river crossing to make her way to freedom. Now she tells her incredible story. It is a story of courage and determination and a family's love that burned so bright that it guided them through a dangerous time.
