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Where the wind leads : a refugee family's miraculous story of loss, rescue, and redemption / Vinh Chung with Tim Downs. by Chung, Vinh, 1975- W Publishing Group, [2014] Call #: 261.8328 C559w Subjects Chung, Vinh, 1975- -- Family.   Chung family.   Chinese -- Vietnam.   Ethnic conflict -- Vietnam.   Persecution -- Vietnam.   Boat people -- Vietnam.   Refugees -- United States -- Biography.   Chinese -- United States -- Biography.   Chinese Americans -- Biography.   United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Biography. ISBN:  9780849947568 (hc.) 0849947561 (hc.) Description:  xiii, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm. Summary:  "Vinh Chung was born in South Vietnam, just eight months after it fell to the communists in 1975. His family was wealthy, controlling a rice-milling empire worth millions; but within months of the communist takeover, the Chungs lost everything and were reduced to abject poverty. The new government's repression was especially severe on the Hoa, the ethnic Chinese population of Vietnam. The Hoa controlled much of the retail trade in South Vietnam and the communist government increasingly levied them with taxes, restrictions on trade, and confiscations of their businesses. In May 1978, the Hoa began to leave Vietnam in large numbers. Knowing that their children would have no future under the new government, the Chungs decided to flee the country in 1979, joining the legendary "boat people" and sailed into the South China Sea, despite knowing that an estimated two hundred thousand of their countrymen had already perished at the hands of brutal pirates and violent seas. This memoir follows Vinh Chung and his family on their desperate journey from post-war Vietnam, through pirate attacks on a lawless sea, to a miraculous rescue and a new home in the unlikely town of Fort Smith, Arkansas. There Vinh struggled against poverty, discrimination, and a bewildering language barrier -- yet still managed to graduate from Harvard Medical School. This is Vinh’s tribute to the courage and sacrifice of his parents, a testimony to his family's faith, and a reminder to people everywhere that the American dream, while still possible, carries with it a greater responsibility"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Other authors:  Downs, Tim. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 261.8328 C559w Adult books Adult Display 1 Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 261.8328 C559w Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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