News From war refugee to founding Vietnamese studies: a woman's journey of reconciliation

Nguyen Thi Lien Hang, (2nd, L), meets with Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh (3rd, L) in New York, U.S, on May 15, 2022. Photo courtesy of Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Nguyen Thi Lien Hang, the first director of Vietnamese Studies at Columbia University in the U.S., wishes she can build bridges between the diaspora and Vietnam.

Hang left Saigon just before Reunification in 1975 as a five-month-old child. Her father, like many others working for South Vietnam government, decided his family with nine kids had to leave when the Northern Vietnamese army entered the city.

After transiting through several refugee camps in Guam and Hawaii, the family finally settled down in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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