"An oral history biography of Pao Yang, one of several dozen Hmong fighter pilots secretly trained by the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Recounts his capture, escape, and migration to the United States and challenges dominant paradigms of Asian American history …
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"During its secret war in Laos (1961-1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refug…
"During its secret war in Laos (1961-1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refug…
"During its secret war in Laos (1961-1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refug…
"Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees who migrated to the United States following the secret war in Laos (1961-1975) to theorize "history on the run" as a framework for understanding refugee histories, in particular those of the Hmong."--
Textbooks and general histories of modern China agree that the so-called Miao rebellion constituted one of the major rebellions of the nineteenth century. It lasted for twenty years-caused devastation of such severity that its effects were still obvious to travelers in Guizhou p…