Overview

The Vietnamese Australians: Motherland Fatherland gives the readers an insight into Minh Hien and her family's journeys to Australia and Minh Hien and her husband's educational and teaching journeys, inspired by Baha'i and Buddhist teachings. It recounts the Vietnamese cultural activities, people, and places that have featured in Minh Hien's life. It also shows how the Vietnamese Australians celebrate peace through golf and the specific cultural symbolisms of the Vietnamese traditional dresses with embroideries and their associated colours. It documents for posterity what it was like to grow up during the war, to leave motherland in dangerous journeys to Australia in pursuit of higher education and then return to fatherland to assist others in their educational quest and to celebrate peace. The stories are told through numerous colourful photographs.

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""The book reflects on a period that was on the verge of disappearing forever: a time when people still lived modest and simple lives, surrounded by traditional customs, old markets, family restaurants, small houses, ageing buildings, quiet roads, and older forms of transport before modernisation swept much of it away. Nowadays, Việt Nam resembles many modern tourist destinations, with large buildings, new highways, heavy traffic, and an ever-growing variety of vehicles. Vietnamese food has also changed as ingredients are increasingly sourced from commercial suppliers and dishes are often adapted to suit international tastes. However, certain Vietnamese qualities remain unchanged through time: hospitality, calmness, politeness, tolerance and resilience."" Farshid Anvari

Author Information

Hien Minh Thi Tran (Minh Hien) is an educator, a researcher and the author of My Mother (shortlisted for the 2024 Furphy Literary Award), The Vietnamese Australians series and My Heritage: Vietnam fatherland motherland. She is the recipient of multiple National manuscript development programs: the 2023 Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) Publishable, the 2022 QWC Publishable (long-listed), the 2021 Fellowship and Access Manuscript Development initiative through the QWC, the 2019 Hardcopy initiative through the ACT Writers Centre, the 2006 Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Mentorship. She is featured in the 2008 Who's Who in Tasmania. She has worked as an engineer, an IT consultant, a systems accountant, a systems manager and a family business manager and owner. While working, she studied for university qualifications in the fields of Engineering, Accounting, Commerce, Management, Arts, and Education and completed a qualification as a professional member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (CPA). She holds a Master of Education, a Master of Higher Education, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing, a Master of Commerce, a Master of Engineering Science, a Graduate Diploma in Management, a Graduate Conversion Course qualification in Accounting and a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours from Australian universities in NSW, VIC, QLD and TAS. She is currently studying for a Doctor of Education at the University of New South Wales.

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