Yearly Archives: 2022

French rap is a music where guys express their anger toward France and their institutions, but they will do it with Moliere’s language.

No one / is dancing, Thao.

Lynda Trang Đài’s provocative choreography was a middle finger to the status quo of Vietnamese music about love, loss, and missing the homeland.

“Má, why do you always listen to this sad, slow music? Can’t you listen to something fun?”

In Part Two of this two-part conversation, Rachel Min Park and Nguyễn An Lý continue their discussion of Nguyễn An Lý’s most recent translation, Thuận’s Chinatown. They talk about the way history figures within Chinatown and how literature might gesture towards more ethical renditions of history. They conclude with a broader conversation on the translation and publishing industry and how general readers might support translated literature as a whole.

DVAN is launching an Online Silent Auction to raise $10,000 towards DVAN’s "Championing Our Narratives" Campaign. 

On Trường Sa, time is frozen. The fight for sovereignty, like the struggle for many without a home, a land, a nation or a state, is burdensome and slow.

News from Vietnamese Abroad►Cambodia returns 92 Vietnamese tricked into working in scamming jobsNews from Việt Nam►Car accidents in Vietnam come from poor training►One in...

Translator and PhD Student Rachel Min Park speaks with Nguyễn An Lý about her most recent translation of Thuận’s Chinatown. In Part One of this two-part series, they discuss the general practice of translation, Chinatown’s formal elements, and the role of (translated) literature in interrogating notions of a homogeneous language, culture, and ethnic community.

Chinatown is humorous, critical, and surprisingly tender in its most powerful moments.