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Cau Kieu Collective: Vietnam and Palestine
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) established diplomatic ties with the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLO) in 1968, making it one of the first countries to do so.
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A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
A poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” with verse biography on the poet’s mother, Diệp Anh Nguyễn, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe.
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Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es)
Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this literature retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, and violence-and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war.
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Death and Suffering at First Hand: Youth Shock Brigades during the Vietnam War
This visual article aims to comprehend the physical suffering that occurs when bodies face the experiences of war and death, or the ‘decay of bodies,’ as we call it, in pvisual articular on the Hồ Chí Minh Trail.
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First They Killed My Father
Five-year-old Luong Ung is the second youngest child in a large and prosperous family, and she lives a happy life in Phnom Penh.
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