The Vietnamese Australians: Traditions, Education, Tenacity - Hien Minh Thi Tran
The Vietnamese Australians: Traditions, Education, Tenacity - Hien Minh Thi Tran Book
The Vietnamese Australians: Traditions, Education, Tenacity is the first book of The Vietnamese Australians series. This inaugural edition contains a collection of poems and short stories written by Minh Hien about Vietnamese traditions and about herself as a seventeen-year-old Vietnamese girl who risked her life in a small fishing boat to pursue education and thirty-eight years later while undergoing treatment for breast cancer successfully stood up for her rights against a giant public employer. It recounts the cultural activities, events, people and places that have featured in her life, illustrated with colourful photographs and paintings. It shows the influence of Vietnamese culture, historical and mythological figures, language and poetry on her actions and decisions.
P>About the Author: Hien Minh Thi Tran (Minh Hien) is an educator, a researcher and the author of My Heritage: Vietnam fatherland motherland. She was selected to participate in the 2022 Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) long-listed Publishable program, the 2021 Fellowship & Access Manuscript Development initiative through the QWC, the 2019 Hardcopy National Professional Development Program to write her memoir. She has worked as an engineer, an IT consultant, a systems accountant and a systems manager. While working, she studied for eight qualifications in the fields of Engineering, Accounting, Commerce, Management, Arts, Education and completed a qualification as a professional member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants. She holds 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 in Accounting and a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours, all from Australian universities. She is featured in the 2008 Whos Who in Tasmania. She has presented academic papers at international conferences and published research papers in international journals in the fields of education, engineering, computing, accounting and management since 1989.Dr Farshid Anvari is a researcher, an engineer and an educational consultant. He has travelled regularly to Vit Nam to learn about Vietnamese culture and to present research papers at international conferences held in Si Gn, Nha Trang, Tam K and Hu. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Philosophy in Computing, a Graduate Diploma of Information Technology, a Graduate Diploma of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a co-inventor of Healthy Me, an online research platform to support consumer health decision making. He is the photographer of almost all pictures in this book. Minh Hin and Farshid love to capture the beauty and happiness of life experiences through books.Ellyse Tran is a young artist. She started painting at the age of five. Her debut book, Growing Up with Papa, an expression of love and feelings for family, friends, animals, flowers and nature through paintings over a seven year period was published during the COVID-19 Pandemic to celebrate World Kindness Day. Her art work was on the cover page of the Chester Hill High Schools Year Ten 2022 Assessment Handbook.(BK-9780994602893)
| SKU | BK-9780994602893 |
| Barcode # | 9780994602893 |
| Brand | Minh Hien Pty Ltd |
| Artist / Author | Hien Minh Thi Tran |
| Shipping Weight | 0.6700kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.220m |
| Shipping Height | 0.010m |
| Shipping Length | 0.280m |
| Type | Hardcover |
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