Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Processing History
Biography
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Collection Arrangement
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Do Dinh Tuan collection of Vietnamese periodicals
Creator:
Đõ, Đình Tuân
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.029
Physical Description:
1.2 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1975-1990
Abstract: The collection comprises periodicals
collected by Do Dinh Tuan and published outside of Vietnam in the Vietnamese language. Do
collected a broad spectrum of titles that document the concerns and interests of the
Vietnamese emigrant community following the collapse of South Vietnam in 1976. As a whole,
the periodicals reflect the challenges refugees faced as they built new lives for themselves
outside of Vietnam and their lingering concerns for the land and people they left
behind.
Language of Material:
Vietnamese .
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by
the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish,
please contact the Southeast Asian Archive Librarian.
Preferred Citation
Do Dinh Tuan collection of Vietnamese periodicals. MS-SEA029. Special Collections and
Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Do Dinh Tuan, 2004.
Processing History
Processed by Julia Stringfellow, 2005. Translation services provided by Nguyen Dat, 2005.
Processing was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. Finding aid
updated and encoded by Cyndi Shein, 2007. While the printed finding aid contains Vietnamese
language characters, the diacritics have been omitted from the characters in the electronic
version to facilitate online display and searching.
Biography
Since 1982, Do Dinh Tuan has owned and managed Van Khoa Books, a Vietnamese language
bookstore located in the Asian Gardens Mall in Westminster, California. The store sells
books on topics of interest to the Vietnamese American community, such as English as a
Second Language (ESL) books, English and Vietnamese dictionaries, books about the Vietnam
War, and translated novels.
Do came to the United States as a refugee in 1975 and subsequently worked in refugee
services and education. He founded and served as chairman of the Vietnamese Community of
Orange County, Inc., and has taught ESL classes at several community colleges throughout
Orange County. Prior to 1975, Do studied Vietnamese culture and linguistics at the
University of Saigon. He attended graduate school at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
where he received Masters of Arts degrees in linguistics and in English language and
literature. Do also did postgraduate work in English phonetics at London University from
1970 to 1971. He has also worked as a simultaneous translator for international conferences
and seminars.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The collection comprises periodicals collected by Do Dinh Tuan and published outside of
Vietnam in the Vietnamese language. Do collected a broad spectrum of titles that document
the concerns and interests of the Vietnamese emigrant community following the collapse of
South Vietnam in 1976. As a whole, the periodicals reflect the challenges refugees faced as
they built new lives for themselves outside of Vietnam and their lingering concerns for the
land and people they left behind. The periodicals address diverse topics such as
resettlement, human rights activities, religion, politics, cultural issues, and current
events. The periodicals were primarily published in California, but also include titles from
the greater United States and Canada, and a few titles from Australia and France.
Issues from earlier years focus on topics such as learning English, adjusting to a new host
country, and political opinions regarding the situation in Vietnam, while later years
include specialized periodicals devoted entirely to poetry, science, fitness, sports,
women's issues, and Christianity. Although the text of the majority of the periodicals is
exclusively in Vietnamese, bilingual advertisements appear throughout the periodicals and
trace the changing economy and lifestyles of the community. For example, early issues
contain ads for items that fulfill basics needs, such as Asian food markets and medical
services, while later years contain ads for real estate, music lessons, jewelry, and
cosmetic surgery.
Do often collected special issues of the periodicals, including those published for the New
Year (Tet) and those that commemorate the anniversaries of the publications. Although Do
generally collected one representative issue of a title for a given year, he occasionally
kept more than one issue of the same title from the same year.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged chronologically, then alphabetically by title.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Vietnamese -- Periodicals.
Periodicals -- 20th century.
Vietnamese Americans -- Archives
Vietnamese Americans -- Periodicals.
Refugees -- Vietnam -- Periodicals.
Refugees -- United States -- Periodicals.