This summer, I put together a short packet of background reading on Brandon Hoang’s The Crossbow of Destiny for K-12 educators, and I am sharing a slightly revised version of that material here. The young adult novel is about a mixed-race Vietnamese-American girl who returns to her village in Vietnam after years of absence, and […]
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Chúc các bạn một mùa Trung Thu vui vẻ! The holiday of Mid-Autumn Festival (Trung Thu, also known as Moon Festival in English) falls on the full moon of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which is said to be the brightest full moon of the year. The eighth lunar month
Wedding season is just around the corner in the US, and every wedding season makes me think of my own wedding years ago. I wanted my wedding to reflect Vietnamese tradition, but as a historian, I knew that there was no such thing as a single, timeless tradition and that practices change over time in
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