Yearly Archives: 2012
Vietnamese Plays in Seattle and L.A.: Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam and Year of the Rabbit
If you're in Seattle or Los Angeles, be sure to catch these plays dealing with Viet Nam or the Vietnamese.In Seattle, the Allen Theatre...
Andrew Lam’s Three Collections
Christina Vo revisits Andrew Lam's two previous memoir essay collections, Perfume Dreams and East Eats West, and previews his forthcoming fiction collection, Birds of Paradise Lost. After discussing Lam's...
Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
Recently, there's been a wave of new critical work on Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic film, literature, and refugee/immigrant experience. Here is a preview of...
Alien: Hoangmai Pham’s Memoir, continued
Another sneak preview! Earlier, diaCRITICS posted the first chapterlet from Hoangmai Pham's work-in-progress memoir Keeper of Stories. Here, we're happy to be able to...
Hear, Say: Hoangmai Pham’s Memoir, continued
A sneak preview! Writer Hoangmai Pham gives diaCRITICS reader an opportunity to read two more chapterlet drafts from her work-in-progress memoir Keeper of Stories. ...
What Happened in August 2012: Some News and Events
What happened in August 2012: news and events relating to Vietnamese in Vietnam and around the world.Welcome back everyone from summer vacation! Special thanks...
‘Hinterlands’ Opening in The Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco
This month, The Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco is featuring its first artistic exchange involving four artists born, raised, or based in Viet Nam,...
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Aimee Phan on ‘Reeducation’ — An Interview with Sunny Woan
This author interview with Aimee Phan, conducted by Sunny Woan, first appeared in Kartika Review's 13th issue, in Summer 2012. Woan observes, "After the critical...
Pham Kieu Phuc’s Philosophies on Furniture Design and Life
“The best way to predict the future is to design it,” wrote Buckminster Fuller. A self-taught designer in Hanoi definitely embodies this adage. Here Christina...