Reading Schedule
This schedule provides the readings for each day, along with links (BYU Box login required) to each reading or the author and chapters/pages of the corresponding book. The book list is provided below.
Anything following the heading "Suggested Further Reading" for any given day is not required reading.​
Books (required)
You will need to purchase the following books or get access to them through the library at the links below:
Smalley, William A., Chia Koua Vang, and Gnia Yee Yang. 1990. Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script. The University of Chicago Press.
(Referred to in the schedule as "Smalley")
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Yang, Kao Kalia. 2008. The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. Coffee House Press.
(Referred to in the schedule as "Yang-LHC")
The library has made a digital copy of this book available here.
Vang, Ma. 2021. History on the Run : Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies. Duke University Press.
(Referred to in the schedule as "Vang-HOTR").
The library has made a digital copy of this book available here.​
Books (optional)
You will need to purchase or acquire one of these for the fourth response paper
Tapp, Nicholas. 2005. Sovereignty and Rebellion: The White Hmong of Northern Thailand, Second Edition. White Lotus Press.
(Referred to in the schedule as "Tapp-S&R").
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Tapp, Nicholas. 2001. The Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary. Brill.
(Referred to in the schedule as "Tapp-China").
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Lee, Mai Na M. 2015. Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom: The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960. University of Wisconsin Press.
(Referred to in the schedule as "Lee-Dreams").
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Ngô, Tâm T. T. 2016. The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam. University of Washington Press.
(Referred to in the schedule as "Ngo").
The library has made a digital copy of this book available here.​
Lee, Sangmi. 2024. Reclaiming Diasporic Identity : Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora. University of Illinois Press.
(Referred to in the schedule as "Lee--Reclaim").
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