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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Kim Hà papers
Creator:
Kim Hà
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.003
Physical Description:
0.8 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1983-1999
Abstract: Collection comprises the holograph
manuscript of
Qua Con Bao Du (English translation published as
Stormy
Escape
) by Kim Hà, correspondence and newspaper articles relating to the book,
other articles written by Hà and others on the subject of Vietnamese land refugees, audio
recordings of her interviews with eight Vietnamese land refugees, and monographs geared
towards Vietnamese Catholics who want to live devout lives. Materials are in Vietnamese and
English.
Language of Material:
Vietnamese .
Collection is open for research. Access to original audio cassettes is restricted; copies
are made for researcher use.
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.
Kim Hà Papers. MS-SEA003. Southeast Asian Archive, 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.
Donated by Kim Hà in 1987 and 1992. Correspondence added by Anne Frank.
Preliminary processing by Anne Frank in 1992. Processing completed by Howie Phan in 2000.
Guide edited by William Landis in 2001. Addition processed by Zoe MacLeod and Audra Eagle
Yun in 2012.
Kim Hà is the pen name of Pham Thi Kim Nhung, who was born in 1950 in Hai Duong, North
Vietnam. In 1955 she moved with her family to Saigon, South Vietnam. She was a student at
the University of Saigon, where she completed a degree in Education in 1973, and at the
National University of Social Work, where she completed a degree in 1975. Following the fall
of Saigon in April 1975, Hà and her family made several unsuccessful attempts after 1975 to
escape by boat to the United States, resulting in the jailing of her husband in Vietnam and
the loss of her job as a teacher.
In 1980, with her husband and three children, Hà made another attempt to escape from
Vietnam on foot through Cambodia. After a harrowing two-week trek they arrived at a refugee
camp in Thailand on 10 April 1980. The family came to the United States in October 1980 and
has lived in Orange County, California. Hà earned an associates degree in Business
Administration from Coastline College in 1983. As of 2001 she works for State Compensation
Insurance Fund and is a community activist. Her publications include
Report on the
Vietnamese Land Refugees
(SOS Boat Committee, 1983) and
Qua
Con Bao Du
(English translation published as
Stormy
Escape
) (McFarland Publishers, 1996).
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Collection comprises the holograph manuscript of
Qua Con Bao
Du
(English translation published as
Stormy Escape)
by Kim Hà, correspondence and newspaper articles relating to the book, other articles
written by Hà and others on the subject of Vietnamese land refugees, audio recordings of her
interviews with eight Vietnamese land refugees, and monographs geared towards Vietnamese
Catholics who want to live devout lives. Materials are in Vietnamese and English.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by form of material.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Refugee camps -- Thailand -- History -- Sources
Vietnamese Americans -- California -- Orange County -- History --
Sources
Political refugees -- Vietnam -- Archives
Political refugees -- Vietnam -- Interviews.
Sound recordings.
Photographic prints
Vietnamese American women -- California -- Orange County.
Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 1975- -- History --
Sources
Kim Hà -- Archives