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Title: Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat: The Hmong and America's Secret War in Laos by Keith Quincy ISBN: 0-910055-60-2 Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Inaccurate and biased, not a major addition.
Comment: From the first pages inaccuracies plague this rather hollywoodesque book. Not much more to say. It is sad to see so many pages to bring so little new information on a subject that deserves better, more objective work. Others have written shorter, less amibitious, more informative stories. Hmong history as a part of the Lao and the Indochinese peninsula history can only benefit from serious research. And too bad if it does not fit the fantasies of some.
Rating: 5
Summary: After the fighting stops, the devastations of war continue
Comment: In Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat: The Hmong & America's Secret War In Laos, Keith Quincey reveals the American military's involvement in Southeast Asia in what came to be called the Laotian "secret war" and its tragic consequences for the America's allies, the Hmong people and their culture. By the early 1980s, the entire Hmong society had fled out of Laos and into Thailand and the United States, making them a people in exile from their ancestral homeland. Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat is a seminal work explaining how and why this terrible outcome came about, and is a chilling reminder that even after the fighting stops, the devastations of war continue on. Also available in a hardcover edition ..., Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat is highly recommended reading for students of Hmong history, the Vietnamese conflict, and American foreign policy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hmong History best be presented by Hmong Intellecuals !
Comment: I rate this book a five stars. One for Quincy's interest in Hmong by putting out his time and effort, two for another volume added to the Hmong Historical Record, yet still just another presentation through an outsider point of perspective. And the last three I reserved for my Hmong intellectual brothers and sisters to take up the book and begin analyzing the fact that No one, no matter how competent they are, are not going to accurately write a Hmong History and handed to the world bypassing the very blood connecting our veins to that of our ancestors which upon millennia had etched our place on the human existence!
I poured over Quincy's work twice in the span of one month making sure I had one week's break time from his presentation to digest everything. Though Quincy had obviously put his Political Science mind to good use, most inside - very intimated Hmong information best left be authored by Hmong Intellectuals through whose blood run the very life of Hmong civilization. It's so ironic that Hmong History had to be presented to the world without choice, on a western platter. Western and Asian sources alike, up to now had dissected Hmong History without even experience a lifetime's worth of understanding Hmong's unique make up. Most of them did not even care for correct Hmong name and spelling, let alone a unique philosophical mind that even rival that of other Asian race. I found it unrealistic that every single author had managed to add to the myth that Hmong are nothing less than civilized???
Quincy like Hamilton and many others before them painted a Hmong picture by merely observing and researching and not through LIVING. Take the Chinese sources for example, how could one assume that it is accurate to cite when they had only two things in mind. One, to assimilate or exterminate Hmong at any cost and two, to record only their emperor's ambitious achievement? Notice that I have not even mentioned the so ever prevalent racist attitudes toward Hmong that Quincy so intimately pointed out in his book, that even an uneducated Laotian deemed a Hmong not worthy of a human life by refusing to take order from...
Overall Quincy had still more to educate about Hmong and its civilization issues, if he ever will work on another Hmong projects in the future. However I assured you, Mr. Quincy, that you are certainly being appreciated for your work. I personally applaud you for showing the intellectual Hmong, the way........
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Title: Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992 by Jane Hamilton-Merritt ISBN: 0253207568 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hmong Means Free: Life Laos and America (Asian American History and Culture) by Sucheng Chan ISBN: 1566391636 Publisher: Temple University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans by Mai Neng Moua ISBN: 0873514378 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Dia's Story Cloth by Dia Cha, Chiie Thao Cha, Nhia Thao Cha ISBN: 1880000636 Publisher: Lee & Low Books Pub. Date: 08 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Tangled Threads : A Hmong Girl's Story by Pegi Deitz Shea ISBN: 0618247483 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 22 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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