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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.
There are eleven chapters in the book. The history of the Hmong people is discussed in Chapters 1 through 3. The traditional culture of the Hmong, the 19th Century migration of Hmong into Southeast Asia, and the opium-producing role of the Hmong and that effect on global politics and international trade are all chronicled in Chapters 4 through 6.
Histoire des Miao ("History of the Miao") is a 1924 ethnographic book of the Hmong people by François Marie Savina, published by the Société des Missions-Etrangères de Paris. [1] As of 2006, of Savina's writings, it is the most well-known and the most often cited. [2] The book includes Savina's theories and views of the Hmong.
Lee's teaching and research focus on Hmong in Asia and Hmong Americans through a global and postcolonial lens. [14] [1] Aline Lo in Lateral says that Mai Na Lee's work has steered the fields of Hmong American and Asian American scholarship away from "[making] Hmong people primitive objects to be classified and explained away."
Afterland: Poems is a 2017 debut poetry collection by Hmong American poet Mai Der Vang. [1] It was published by Graywolf Press after Vang won the Walt Whitman Award in 2016, which included publication as a prize. Vang's manuscript had been chosen by Carolyn Forché. [2] The book later went on to be a finalist for the National Book Award for ...
“If history isn’t documented, then it’s forgotten,” a librarian involved in creating Fresno State’s Hmong history repository said. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by ...
Evers has signed other bills acknowledging the Hmong population in the state, including one that made May 14 Hmong-Lao Veterans Day in Wisconsin, the news release said.
It is, generally, from the 9th month to the 11 month of the Chinese Lunar calendar that Miao, Hmong people in China celebrate the new year. Often, it lasted between five and fifteen days. In the Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Burma, Hmong people celebrate it between October and November. It depends on their crops.