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  2. Bee Vang - Wikipedia

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    November 4, 1991 (age 32) Fresno, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Actor, activist. Years active. 2008–present. Bee Vang ( RPA: Npis Vaj, Pahawh: 𖬃𖬰𖬨𖬵 𖬖𖬰𖬜, Chinese-Mandarin: 王陛; born November 4, 1991) is an American actor and activist of Hmong descent. He is best known for starring in Clint Eastwood 's 2008 film Gran ...

  3. Gran Torino - Wikipedia

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    Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film. This was Eastwood's first starring role since 2004's Million Dollar Baby. The film features a large Hmong-American cast (the first time for an American mainstream film), [4] as well as one of Eastwood's younger sons, Scott.

  4. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Wikipedia

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    OCLC. 47352453. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.

  5. Hmong customs and culture - Wikipedia

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    The Flower Hmong are known for very brightly colored embroidered traditional costumes with beaded fringe. An important element of Hmong clothing and culture is the paj ntaub, (pronounced pun dow) a complex form of traditional textile art created using stitching, reverse-stitching, and reverse applique.

  6. Hmong people - Wikipedia

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    As of the 2010 census, 260,073 Hmong people reside in the United States, [103] the majority of whom live in California (91,224), then Minnesota (66,181), and Wisconsin (49,240), an increase from 186,310 in 2000. [104] 247,595 or 95.2% are Hmong alone, and the remaining 12,478 are mixed Hmong with some other ethnicity.

  7. Boat People (film) - Wikipedia

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    Boat People. (film) Boat People ( Chinese: 投奔怒海; pinyin: Tóubēn Nù Hǎi; Cantonese Yale: Tau ban no hoi; lit. 'Into the Raging Sea') is a Hong Kong film directed by Ann Hui, first shown in theatres in 1982. The film stars George Lam, Andy Lau, Cora Miao, and Season Ma. At the second Hong Kong Film Awards, Boat People won awards for ...

  8. Kao Kalia Yang - Wikipedia

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    Kao Kalia Yang (born 1980) is a Hmong American writer and author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir from Coffee House Press and The Song Poet from Metropolitan Press. Her work has appeared in the Paj Ntaub Voice Hmong literary journal, "Waterstone~Review," and other publications. She is a contributing writer to On Being's Public ...

  9. Ka Vang - Wikipedia

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    Ka Vang. Ka Vang (born 1975) is a Hmong -American writer [1] in the United States. Vang was born on a CIA military base, Long Cheng, Laos, at the end of the Vietnam War, and immigrated to the United States in 1980. A fiction writer, poet, playwright, [2] and former journalist, [3] Vang has devoted much of her professional life to capturing ...

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