Archive for December, 2008
Anh Cao elected to Congress.
In a year of political firsts, I was interested to see that Anh Cao has broken another barrier by becoming the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress. He ran as a Republican in Louisiana, unseating William J. Jefferson, a nine-term Rep-D who was dogged by scandal this year. Apparently, Jefferson was “charged with money laundering and [...]
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Tags: firsts, politics, vietnamese
I’m excited about the Chinese- and Taiwanese-Americans who Barack Obama has appointed to his administration.
He just chose Dr. Steven Chu as his Secretary of Energy, and earlier he picked Christopher Lu as White House cabinet secretary.
Lu was born in New Jersey after his parents moved to the States from Taiwain. He met Obama [...]
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Tags: chinese, obama, politics, taiwanese
One to watch: Nam Le.
I’ve been meaning to pick up Nam Le’s book of stories after reading about him in the NY Times. He’s a young writer of Vietnamese origin who attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop after a short career as a lawyer in Australia, and this first story collection shows off his ability to write about cultures other [...]
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Tags: books, vietnamese, writers
