eBooks - Biographies - General - Lucy Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem - A Dragon Child: Reflections of a Daughter of Annam in America
A Dragon Child: Reflections of a Daughter of Annam in America eBook
by Lucy Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem
|
Platforms
Windows Vista / XP / 2000, Mac OS X, Sony Reader Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $6.00
|
A Dragon Child: Reflections of a Daughter of Annam in America Summary
|
A Dragon Child: Reflections of a Daughter of Annam in America is the story of a Vietnamese Catholic raised within the structure of the French colonial system. Her upbringing was somewhat privileged as the daughter of a provincial administrator in the central highlands of Vietnam. As a child, and later as a young woman, she embraced French culture and aspired to French ideals. She was educated at a French boarding school for the children of the elite. Subsequently she received a degree in French teaching from the University of Saigon and became a lycee teacher and administrator. In 1975, she left on one of the last military planes accompanied by her four children and entered a new life as a refugee in the U.S. She ultimately resettled in Western Massachusetts. She then went back to school and obtained her Ph.D. in Francophone literature. After seeing to her children |
|
|
eBooks - Titles - Authors - Biographies - General - Lucy Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem - A Dragon Child: Reflections of a Daughter of Annam in America