This dissertation is an exploratory study of the relationship between the Vietnamese refugees' escape experience from their home country and their experience of conversion to and within Christianity. This study focuses on sixteen Vietnamese refugees who escaped Vietnam by boats,…
Throughout American history, people have come to the United States to escape intolerable conditions elsewhere and to seek a better life. After the collapse of the South Vietnamese government, hundreds of thousands of persons fled to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines…
Middle Chinese glottal stop Ying 影 [ʔ-] initials usually develop into zero initials with rare occasions of nasalization in modern day Sinitic languages and Sino-Vietnamese. Scholars such as Edwin Pullyblank (1984) and Jiang Jialu (2011) have briefly mentioned this development bu…