{"id":582,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/thuong-vuong-riddick\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:12:25","slug":"vuong_riddick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/vuong_riddick\/","title":{"rendered":"Thuong Vuong-Riddick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thuong Vuong-Riddick was born in Hano\u00ef, Vietnam. She obtained a B.A. in Sa\u00efgon prior to emigrating to Paris in 1962. In France, she obtained a second B.A., an M.A. and a doctorate. In 1969 she emigrated to to Canada where she taught literature at the University of Montreal and at McGill University. Vuong-Riddick moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1981 where she taught at the University of Victoria until 1989. She now resides in Delta, B.C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Poetry<\/h3>\n

Two Shores: Poems = Deux Rives: Po\u00e8mes<\/h3>\n

Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 1995.
\nPS8593 .U56 T86 1995<\/a><\/p>\n

Dual language edition. Poems written in English and then recreated by the author in French.<\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

In Two Shores<\/span><\/em>, …, Vuong-Riddick describes life in Vietnam under the Japanese, the Chinese, the Vietminh, the French and the Americans. She also tells of her struggle to create a new reality for herself in the West.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Non-fiction (Memoir)<\/h3>\n

The Evergreen Country: A Memoir of Vietnam<\/h3>\n

Regina: Hagios Press, 2007.
\nDS556.93 .V865 A3 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)<\/h4>\n

The Evergreen Country: A Memoir of Vietnam<\/em> is a startling and beautiful memoir by Vancouver’s Thuong Vuong-Riddick. We learn of how her Chinese family must struggle to overcome difficulties during the rise of the Viet Cong in Northern Vietnam and their eventual journey to Southern Vietnam where war would soon follow them. This memoir tells the little known story of how Chinese born families struggled to maintain their dignity and their lives while being persecuted by rapidly changing political forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h3>\n

Truong, Mireille Mai. “Lieu humain \/ Lieu personne chez deux \u00e9crivaines Canado-vietnamiennes, Thuong Vuong-Riddick et Kim Th\u00fay.” In Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere: Place and Space<\/em>, edited by Ruth Panofsky and Kathleen Kellett. Edomonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015, 249-261.
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Links<\/h3>\n

Publisher Hagios Press<\/p>\n

Publisher Ronsdale Press <\/a><\/p>\n

Interview<\/a> with Cathi Atmadjaja of the Vancouver Observer<\/em> 27 April 2010<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thuong Vuong-Riddick was born in Hano\u00ef, Vietnam. She obtained a B.A. in Sa\u00efgon prior to emigrating to Paris in 1962. In France, she obtained a second B.A., an M.A. and a doctorate. In 1969 she emigrated to to Canada where … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-582","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18649,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/582\/revisions\/18649"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}