...Louisa Schein; Va-Megn Thoj; Bee Vang; Ly Chong Thong Jalao Clint Eastwood's feature film Gran Torino (2008) represents an ongoing site of cultural struggle from the perspective of Hmong Americans, not only because of issues around the portrayal of Hmong culture and society, but also because...

... of Southeast Asian “others” and its consequences, Louisa Schein and Va- Megn Thoj with Bee Vang and Ly Chong Thong Jalao have collaboratively writ- ten “Beyond Gran Torino’s Guns: Hmong Cultural Warriors Performing Genders” as a critique...

...) and from the chancellor of University of California, Berkeley. Bee Vang played the lead role of Thao Vang Lor opposite Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino He produced the YouTube spoof “Thao Does Walt” and continues to act and pursue...

... US$800 million).57 Although Ciji’s moral certainty had led to support from both the govern- ment and society, it has been quite another thing for morality to work in tandem with democracy. During the same years that Ciji increased in gran...

... archive imperative advances a decolonizing potentiality of the archives by his tactic of “reading along the archival grain.” Ann Stoler writes, “Reading along the archival grain draws our attention to the archive’s gran- ular rather than seamless...

... during recent years. The narrative presents a patchwork collage of fact and memory about the veterans’ village in which its narrator grew up and ranges in an artfully disordered style over the gran- deur and loneliness of exile, daily life...

... of a “France of Asia.” As Gwen- dolyn Wright asserted, “In Indochina even more than in metropolitan France, the instability and weakness of political authority encouraged gran- diose and vain acts of assertiveness. Civic architecture tried to convey...