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The Vietnamese term bụi đời ("life of dust" or "dusty life") refers to vagrants in the city or, trẻ bụi đời to street children or juvenile gangs. From 1989, following a song in the musical Miss Saigon, "Bui-Doi" [1] [2] came to popularity in Western lingo, referring to Amerasian children left behind in Vietnam after the Vietnam War.
In Atlanta, Georgia, John now works for an aid organization whose mission is to connect Bui-Doi (from Vietnamese trẻ bụi đời "street children," meaning children conceived during the war) with their American fathers ("Bui Doi"). John tells Chris that Kim is still alive, which Chris is relieved to hear after years of having nightmares of ...
Shimakawa noted in the song "Bui-Doi" there is no mention of the Vietnamese mothers of these children who are portrayed as being the exclusive responsibility of their American fathers, which appears to suggest that to become American, the Vietnamese heritage of the "bui-doi" children must be suppressed as the musical seems to be arguing that a ...
Giải âm (chữ Hán: 解音) refers to Literary Vietnamese translations of texts originally written in Literary Chinese. [1] These translations encompass a wide spectrum, ranging from brief glosses that explain individual terms or phrases to comprehensive translations that adapt entire texts for a Vietnamese reader.
Bụi đời redirects here, even if the song is the "primary" use of "Bui doi", this article is not titled "Bui doi". Bui doi should redirect to the musical, or be a two-pages DAB , but there's no valid reason to disambiguate this page as "Bụi đời" is not a stylization of "Bui doi".
Dust of Life, also known in Vietnamese as Bui Doi, is a 2009 film by director Le-Van Kiet, who also wrote the screenplay. Plot Since ...
Thị (氏) is an archaic Sino-Vietnamese suffix meaning "clan; family; lineage; hereditary house" and attached to a woman's original family name, but now is used to simply indicate the female sex. For example, the name "Trần Thị Mai Loan" means "Mai Loan, a female person of the Trần family"; meanwhile, the name "Nguyễn Lê Thị An ...
By coincidence, "Pei" is also an Italian surname (of two syllables), whose meaning may derive from the pear or pear tree, or alternatively, represent an abbreviation of "Pietro" or "Pompeo." [ 3 ] Notable people