Hmong Publications

This page contains a growing list of publications about Hmong people, Hmong history, and Hmong culture. Most of the references in the featured list below have reviews and/or background information provided by other HmongNet'ers.

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Hmong Books (Featured)

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
[Homepage] - [Readers Guide] - [Book Review] by Mai Na M. Lee - [Book Review] from the Developmental Disabilities Journal
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Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America, Sucheng Chan
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Out of Laos (WWW Hmong Homepage Information)
Out of Laos (Out of Laos Web Site)
I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience
Facing Both Ways: Reflections on Growing Up in Two Cultures

Hmong Books (Recommended)

Sky is Falling, Gayle L. Morrison

Tragic Mountains, Jane Hamilton-Merritt
Critiques

Kaying and Chay: A Hmong Odyssey
This new book is about the period from 1975 to the 1980s and is about a Hmong family from the mountains of Laos. It is the first of two books. The second one, Kaying And Chay In America, is due out by November, 1999. This is a fictionalized story based on many real facts.

Hmong Education at the Crossroads
New Book by Dr. Pao

This book examines the Mong education at the crossroads. This book was intended to help educators understand the major trends that shaped the Mong society and their problems of cultural and educational adjustment during their resettlement in the United States. (Full Description)

The Hmong: A Guide to Traditional Lifestyles

Tragedy in Paradise: A Country Doctor at War in Laos

Minority Rules : The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics
by Louisa Schein

Sky Is Falling : An Oral History of the CIA's Evacuation of the Hmong from Laos
by Gayle L. Morrison

The Ravens : The Men Who Flew in America's Secret War in Laos, Christopher Robbins
(Full Description)

Hmong Music in Vietnam, Phong T. Nguyen

Trail Through the Mists, Rolland and Moua

Kou Chang's Story
(Full Description)

Hmong Books (Complete List)

Back Fire; the CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam
Roger Warner / Hardcover / Published 1995 [Review]

Ban Vinai : The Refugee Camp
Lynellyn D. Long / Paperback / Published 1993

Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women
Nancy D. Donnelly, Nancy D. Donelly / Hardcover / Published 1994

Dia's Story Cloth
Dia Cha, et al / Hardcover / Published 1996

Dia's Story Cloth : The Hmong People's Journey of Freedom
Dia Cha, et al; Paperback / Published 1998

Hmong : History of a People
Keith Quincy / Hardcover / Published 1997

Hmong at the Turning Point
Yang Dao / Hardcover / Published 1993

A Hmong Family (Journey Between Two Worlds Series)
Nora Murphy, Peter Ford (Photographer) / Paperback / Published 1997

A Hmong Family (Journey Between Two Worlds Series)
Nora Murphy / Library Binding / Published 1997

Hmong Means Free : Life Laos and America (Asian American History and Culture)
Sucheng Chan (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1994

Hmong Textile Designs
Anthony Chan / Paperback / Published 1996

Mother of Writing : The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script
William A. Smalley, et al / Paperback / Published 1990

Mother of Writing : The Origin and Development of Hmong Messianic Script
William Allen Smalley / Hardcover / Published 1990

Nine-In-One Grr! Grr! : A Folktale from the Hmong People of Laos
Blia Xiong, Nancy Hom (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published 1993

Nine-In-One, Grr! Grr!; A Folktale from the Hmong People of Laos
Blia Xiong / Hardcover / Published 1989

The Other Side of the Asian American Success Story (Jossey-Bass Education Series)
Wendy Walker-Moffat / Hardcover / Published 1995

Sovereignty and Rebellion : The White Hmong of Northern Thailand (South-East Asian Social Science Monographs)
Nicholas C. Tapp / Hardcover / Published 1990

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down : A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman / Hardcover / Published 1997

Tragic Mountains : The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992
Jane Hamilton-Merritt / Hardcover / Published 1993

The Whispering Cloth : A Refugee's Story
Pegi Deitz Shea, et al / School & Library Binding / Published 1995

The Whispering Cloth : A Refugee's Story
Pegi Deitz Shea, et al / Paperback / Published 1996

Akha and Miao : Problems of Applied Ethnography in Farther India
Hugo A. Bernatzi / Hardcover / Published 1970

B-FL-ABS 104229 HMONG WHITELOC
Paperback / Published 1985

Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women
Nancy D. Donnelly / Paperback / Published 1997

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation : The Case of Hmong Children in American Society
Henry T. Trueba, et al / Hardcover / Published 1990

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation : The Case of Hmong Children in American Society
Henry T. Trueba, et al / Paperback / Published 1990

Dark Sky, Dark Land : Stories of the Hmong Boy Scouts of Troop 100
David L., Moore / Paperback / Published 1989

Embroidered Hmong Story Cloths (Contributions to Anthropology, No 9)
Susan Bessac (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1988

English-Hmong Phrasebook With Useful Wordlist (Book Only)
Paperback / Published 1981

English-Hmong Phrasebook With Useful Wordlist/Book and 4 Cassettes
Paperback / Published 1981

English-Hmong Phrasebook With Useful Wordlist/Book and 4 Cassettes (Afe554)
Paperback / Published 1981

Field, Forest, and Family : Women's Work and Power in Rural Laos
Carol J. Ireson / Hardcover / Published 1996

Folk Stories of the Hmong : Peoples of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam
Norma J. Livo, Dia Cha / Hardcover / Published 1991

Healing Traditions : Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving)
Bonnie Blair O'Connor / Paperback / Published 1995

Healing Traditions : Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions (Studies in Health, Illness, Caregiving)
Bonnie Blair O'Connor / Hardcover / Published 1995

The Hmong (Celebrating the Peoples and Civilizations of Southeast Asia)
Dolly Brittan / Hardcover / Published 1998

Hmong American Food Practices, Customs, and Holidays (Ethnic and Regional Food Practices a Series)
Joanne P. Ikeda / Paperback / Published 1991

Hmong Art : Tradition and Change
Timothy Dunnigan / Hardcover / Published 1986

Hmong Art : Tradition and Change
Paperback / Published 1986

Hmong Folklife
Donald A. Willcox / Paperback / Published 1986

Hmong for Beginners
Annie Jaisser, Martha Susan Ratliff / Paperback / Published 1995

Hmong Means Free : Life Laos and America (Asian American History and Culture)
Sucheng Chan (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1994

Hmong of Thailand : Opium People of the Golden Train
Nic Tapp / Paperback / Published 1986

I Begin My Life All over : The Hmong Among the American Immigrant Experience
Lillian Faderman, Ghia Xiong / Hardcover / Published 1998

Insurgency and Social Disorder in Guizhou : The 'Miao' Rebellion, 1854-1873
Robert D. Jenks / Hardcover / Published 1994

Jouanah : A Hmong Cinderella
Jewell Reinhart Coburn, et al / Hardcover / Published 1996

Kou Chang's Story : The Journey of a Laotian Hmong Refugee Family
Kou Chang, Sheila Pinkel / Paperback / Published 1992


Longitudinal Analysis of the Acquisition of English
Thom Huebner / Paperback / Published 1983

Meaningful Tone : A Study of Tonal Morphology in Compounds, Form Classes and Expressive Phrases in White Hmong (Special Report Series, No 27)
Martha Ratliff / Paperback / Published 1992

Migrants of the Mountains : The Cultural Ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua of Thailand)
William Robert Geddes / Hardcover / Published 1976

Mouse Bride : English Hmong
M. Chang / Hardcover / Published 1994

New Pioneers in the Heartland : Hmong Life in Wisconsin (New Immigrants Series)
Jo Ann Koltyk / Paperback / Published 1997

Nine-In-One Grr! Grr! : A Folktale from the Hmong People of Laos
Blia Xiong / Unknown Binding / Published 1993

Power in Education : The Case of Miao University Students and Its Significance for American Culture
Henry T. Trueba, Yali Zou / Hardcover / Published 1994

Power in Education : The Case of Miao University Students and Its Significance for American Culture
Henry T. Trueba, Yali Zou / Paperback / Published 1994

Resource Scarcity and the Hmong Response : Patterns of Settlement and Economy in Transition
Robert G. Cooper / Hardcover / Published 1986

Seven Magic Brothers : Hmong Language
Hao, Wang / Hardcover / Published 1994

Stories in Thread : Hmong Pictorial Embroidery/With Cassette
Marsha MacDowell / Paperback / Published 1989

Story of the Chinese Zodiac : English Hmong
M. Chang / Hardcover / Published 1994

Through the Spirit's Door : A True Story of the Hmong People at War, 1975-80
Hueson Yang / Hardcover / Published 1993

Topic and Comment in Hmong (Id No 88102)
Fuller / Paperback / Published 1989

Tragic Mountains
Hardcover / Published 1993

The Whispering Cloth : A Refugee's Story
Pegi Deitz Shea, Anita Riggio (Illustrator) / Unknown Binding / Published 1996

White Hmong-English Dictionary
Ernest Heimbach / Paperback / Published 1979

White Hmong-English Dictionary (Language Texts)
Ernest E. Heimbach (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997

Your New Life in the United States in Hmong
Paperback / Published 1981

Creating Pa Ndau Applique : A New Approach to an Ancient Art Form
Carla J. Hassel / Published 1984

English-Hmong Phrasebook With Useful Wordlist
Thao Cheu / Published 1981

Fighters, Refugees, Immigrants : A Story of the Hmong
MacE Goldfarb / Published 1982

A happy people--the Miaos
Hsien-yang Tseng


A happy people--the Miaos
Hsien-yang Tseng


Highland Lao refugees : repatriation and resettlement preferences in Ban Vinai Camp, Thailand
Thomas P. Conroy


The Hmong

Hmong : History of a People
Keith Quincey / Published 1988

Hmong and English Picture Dictionary : Picture Dictionary in Six Languages English/Hmong
Claudia Schwalm / Published 1994

Hmong Folk Arts : A Guide for Teachers
MacDowell / Published 1985

Hmong in America Providing Ethic Sensitive Human Services
McInnis / Published 1990

Hmong in the West, Observations and Reports
Hmong / Published 1982

Hmong in Transition
Glenn Hendrick / Published 1986

Hmong in Transition
Published 1986

Hmong World 1
Brenda Johns, David Strecker (Editor) / Published 1987

Impact of health development on child rearing of the hilltribes : Karen and H'Mong

Indochinese refugees : hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second, April 26, 1994

Mister Pop
D. A. Schanche


A myth become reality : history and development of the Miao written language
Joakim Enwall


Picture Dictionary in Six Languages : Cambodian, English, French, Hmong, Japanese (Picture Dictionary Series Voo2 Bk&6Cssts) Vol 2
Claudia Schwalm / Published 1994

South-East Asian syntax