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Anvi Hoang
Episode 3032 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a conversation with Andy Pham, a good friend of this podcast and writer Anvi Hoang. Anvi was born and raised in Vietnam, Twenty Five years ago she came to this country to continue her graduate education in Indiana.
In this episode she will describe the experience of the Vietnamese people after the end of the American Vietnam War fifty years ago. Anvi is in a good position to talk about the subject because she has a great deal of experience in both Vietnam and the U. S. especially since she has become a naturalized citizen of this country.
She described the hardships faced by the Vietnamese people during the ten years after the fall of Saigon. Starvation and extreme poverty was widespread in those years because the government was attempting to put communism into practice to pay homage to the Chicoms and the USSR who were there benefactors in the War.
Anvi describes how the Vietnamese trashed their communist economic system in the late 1980’s, converted to a capitalistic type and now everyone is better off and mostly rich.
During the conversation Anve also talked about the book Water Mark and her contribution to it.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of its publication, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and Texas Tech University Press are proud to release a newly updated version of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, the seminal anthology of Vietnamese American literature. Contextualized by a new foreword from Isabelle Thuy Pelaud and seasoned with new voices, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, 25th Anniversary Edition takes its place as a generational work of eclectic and essential voices.
Listen to Episode 3032 and discover more about Anvi Hoang’s very interesting discussion of life in Vietnam after the American Vietnam War.
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