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Laotians in the San Francisco Bay Area

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738595861
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Laotians in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 19th and up to the mid-20th centuries, immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, India, and the Philippines came to America through San Francisco. The end of the decades-long Vietnam War changed the modern Asian American demographics of the city, this time with refugees coming from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The San Francisco Bay Area remains a hub for Laotian American culture, history, and community resources, and it has been a center for Laotian American advancement since the early 1980s. After calling the United States home for more than 30 years and battling the scars of war, a new Laotian American society is seeking meaning from its past while moving forward with hopes of a better future as Americans.

LAOTIANS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531664701
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book LAOTIANS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spies on the Mekong

Author : Ken Conboy
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636240208
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Spies on the Mekong written by Ken Conboy and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agencys biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advisors and support personnel trained and led guerrilla formations across the mountainous Laotian countryside, as well as running smaller road-watch and agent teams that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Chinese frontier. Added to this number were hundreds of contract personnel providing covert aviation services. It was dangerous work. On the Memorial Wall at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, nine stars are dedicated to officers who perished in Laos. On top of this are more than one hundred from propriety airlines killed in aviation mishaps between 1961 and 1973. Combined, this grim casualty figure is orders of magnitude larger than any other CIA paramilitary operation. But for the Foreign Intelligence officers at Langley, Laos was more than a paramilitary battleground. Because of its geographic location as a buffer state, as well as its trifurcated political structure, Laos was a unique Cold War melting pot. All three of the Lao political factions, including the communist Pathet Lao, had representation in Vientiane. The Soviet Union had an extremely active embassy in the capital, while the Peoples Republic of Chinathough in the throes of the Cultural Revolutionhad multiple diplomatic outposts across the kingdom. So, too, did both North and South Vietnam. All of this made Laos fertile ground for clandestine operations. This book comprehensively details the cloak-and-dagger side of the war in Laos for the first time, from agent recruitments to servicing dead-drops in Vientiane.

The Acculturation and Assimilation of Laotians Refugees in San Diego, California

Author : Pajaree Yenbutara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Acculturation and Assimilation of Laotians Refugees in San Diego, California written by Pajaree Yenbutara and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unemployed Lao Refugees in San Francisco

Author : Michael Stroud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Unemployed Lao Refugees in San Francisco written by Michael Stroud and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Immigrants

Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402247028
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Immigrants written by Howard Fast and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A most wonderful book...there hasn't been a novel in years that can do a job on readers' emotions that the last fifty pages of The Immigrants does."—Los Angeles Times The first book in bestselling author Howard Fast's beloved family saga, The Immigrants is a transcendent work of historical fiction. In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the family saga of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Quick to ascend from the tragic depths of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes the head of a powerful shipping empire and establishes himself among the city's cultural elite. But when he finds himself caught in a loveless marriage to the daughter of San Francisco's richest family, a scandalous love affair threatens to destroy the empire Dan has built for himself. The first novel of a compelling family saga, The Immigrants is fast-paced, emotional historical fiction that captures the wide range of relationships across Immigrant America during the tumultuous defining events of the early twentieth century. NOW A MOTION PICTURE

I Became the Boat People

Author : Don Lao
Publisher : Abbott Press
ISBN 13 : 1458213064
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book I Became the Boat People written by Don Lao and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War featured political upheavals, battle tactics, and lots of publicity. But underneath all that were everyday people whose lives were forever altered by three decades of fighting. In this memoir, author Don Lao looks back at what the people of Vietnam went through with this account of how his family went from living an honest and simple life to losing everything in a harrowing war that engulfed Southeast Asia. Lao lived an idyllic childhood with his parents, eight brothers, and four sisters, but he was eventually swept into the South Vietnamese Army. Although he was born in Vietnam, he was Chinese in heritageand so he was always treated like a foreigner, even when he was fighting the communists. When Saigon fell, he sought a better life, leading him to a cargo ship along with other refugees who became known as the boat people. Their path to America was the first step in finding better lives and reconnecting with loved ones. Their tenacity and resiliency earned them the ultimate freedom as Americans living the American dream.

From Broken Jar Mountain, Laos to San Francisco.

Author : Chaylium Saechao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985918903
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book From Broken Jar Mountain, Laos to San Francisco. written by Chaylium Saechao and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-29 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Vietnam War irrevocably altered traditional culture, Ms. Chaylium Saechao was a child growing up in a remote highland minority village in northern Laos. As a young child, her parents taught her the importance of perseverance, kindness, and hard work. These values helped her cope with the trials and dislocations she would later encountered as a refugee in Laos, Thailand, and later in the United States. Here she recounts the story of a closely-knit family who relied on one another for survival. This memoir is dedicated to her children and grandchildren and to all of us interested in the story of a Iu Mien woman who bravely confronts many challenges in life.

The Tao of San Francisco

Author : Lao Tzu
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781973543367
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book The Tao of San Francisco written by Lao Tzu and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few volumes would describe Ed Lee as accurately as this classic work. Please enjoy this special edition of my translation of The Tao of San Francsico.

Lao Hill Tribes

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lao Hill Tribes written by Stephen Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their highly distinctive cultures and ethnic diversity, very little is known about Laos's hill tribes. In this book, Stephen Mansfield offers an in-depth examination of these little-studied tribes and their fragile micro-cultures.

Hawker Fare

Author : James Syhabout
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062656104
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Hawker Fare written by James Syhabout and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From chef James Syhabout of two–Michelin-star restaurant Commis, an Asian-American cookbook like no other—simple recipes for cooking home-style Thai and Lao dishes James Syhabout’s hugely popular Hawker Fare restaurant in San Francisco is the product of his unique family history and diverse career experience. Born into two distinct but related Asian cultures—from his mother’s ancestral village in Isan, Thailand’s northeast region, and his father’s home in Pakse, Laos—he and his family landed in Oakland in 1981 in a community of other refugees from the Vietnam War. Syhabout at first turned away from the food of his heritage to work in Europe and become a classically trained chef. After the success of Commis, his fine dining restaurant and the only Michelin-starred eatery in Oakland, Syhabout realized something was missing—and that something was Hawker Fare, and cooking the food of his childhood. The Hawker Fare cookbook immortalizes these widely beloved dishes, which are inspired by the open-air “hawker” markets of Thailand and Laos as well as the fine-dining sensibilities of James’s career beginnings. Each chapter opens with stories from Syhabout’s roving career, starting with his mother’s work as a line cook in Oakland, and moving into the turning point of his culinary life, including his travels as an adult in his parents’ homelands. From building a pantry with sauces and oils, to making staples like sticky rice and padaek, to Syhabout’s recipe for instant ramen noodles with poached egg, Hawker Fare explores the many dimensions of this singular chef’s cooking and ethos on ingredients, family, and eating well. This cookbook offers a new definition of what it means to be making food in America, in the full and vibrant colors of Thailand, Laos, and California.

Love Began in Laos

Author : Penelope Khounta
Publisher : Pbk Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692927298
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Love Began in Laos written by Penelope Khounta and published by Pbk Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a story to tell. This is mine. I went from a sheltered childhood, growing up in 1940s/1950s middle-class America, to traveling to Thailand & Laos, falling in love with Laos & marrying a Lao man. With no one to answer my questions, I jumped in. I lived in a jungle of ignorance, misunderstanding, & confusion. I am surprised I survived.

The Rough Guide to Laos

Author : Jeff Cranmer
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781858289052
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Laos written by Jeff Cranmer and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ROUGH GUIDE TO LAOS is the most comprehensive handbook to one of Southeast Asia's least-known destinations. Features include: Detailed coverage of all the sights, from the Buddhist temples of Louang Phabang to the French colonial architecture of Vientiane. Up-to the-minute listings of the best places to eat and stay. Practical guidance on exploring the remote northern hill villages, navigating the Mekong River and elephant-back trekking in the jungle. Lively and informed accounts of Laos's history, culture, ethnic minorities and wildlife. Full-colour photos and more than 30 maps.

Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching

Author : Livia Kohn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438409486
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching written by Livia Kohn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-03-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching presents a coherent collection of materials on the ancient Chinese classic and its author, describing traditional and modern Western interpretations. Written and edited by recognized international specialists in the field, this book brings Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching together to present current scholarship on their history and interpretation. Contributors include William H. Baxter, Alan K.L. Chan, A.C. Graham, Julia M. Hardy, Yoshiko Kamitsuka, Livia Kohn, Michael LaFargue, Julian Pas, Isabelle Robinet, Benjamin Schwartz, and Liu Xiaogan. Divided into four parts, the book provides a wealth of information on the influential Chinese classic. Part One, "Ancient Myths," discusses who Lao-tzu was, how he developed into a god of religious Taoism, and how his divinity was represented in medieval Chinese sculpture. Part Two, "Chinese Interpretations," discusses the role of the text in traditional China, studying the major commentaries by Wang Pi and He-shang-kung, looking at about thirty commentaries and their philological and doctrinal interpretations and examining the ritual uses the text found in medieval Taoism. Part Three, "Modern Readings," contains a critical discussion of the Tao-te-ching's reception in the West, a general analysis of its major doctrines, and a contemporary Chinese vision of its possible relevance for life today. Part Four, "Critical Methods," presents recent findings on the Tao-te-ching's linguistic structure and probable date, a historical, hermeneutic enquiry into its original meaning, and an evaluative guide to seventeen major English translations.

Changing Lives in Laos

Author : Vanina Bouté
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 981472226X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Changing Lives in Laos written by Vanina Bouté and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in the character of the political regime in Laos after 2000, a massive influx of foreign investment, and disruptions to rural life arising from improved communications and new forms of mobility within and across the borders have produced a major transformation. Alongside these changes, a group of young scholars carried out studies that document the rise of a new social, cultural and economic order. The contributions to this volume draw on original fieldwork materials and unpublished sources, and provide fresh analyses of topics ranging from the structures of power to the politics of territoriality and new forms of sociability in emerging urban spaces.

United States Aid Operations in Laos

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book United States Aid Operations in Laos written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive study of the U.S. aid program for the southeast Asian Kingdom of Laos and the start of the hearing to discuss it further.

A Thousand Wings

Author : T. C. Huo
Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Wings written by T. C. Huo and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of a homosexual affair, a Laotian cook tells his refugee story, interspersed with recipes. He is Fong Mun, who survived the Vietnam War to find refuge first in a Thai camp, then in San Francisco, where he became a caterer and cookbook author.