Brody is the author of "Yen Do and the story of Nguoi Viet Daily News," (2003), based on Brody's interviews with the publisher. Before entering academia, Brody was a long-time reporter for the Orange County Register, where he covered Yen Do and Little Saigon. He now is a communications professor at California State University in Fullerton.
Yen Do also served as chair of UCI Libraries' Southeast Asian Archive's advisory board. He was honored with a plaque at a ceremony at UCI on February 21, 2001.
The Subversity show airs Monday, August 21, 2006 from 9-10 am on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, and is webcast simultaneously via the Web at kuci.org.
An audio recording of this show will be archived via the show's website.
Thanx for listening.
Memorial service:
A memorial service for Yen Do will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Barbara's Catholic Church, 730 S. Euclid St., Santa Ana.
Resources:
Tran, Mai, and Silverstein, Stuart, "Yen Do, 65; Publisher of First,
Largest U.S. Vietnamese Paper," Los Angeles Times, 18 August 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-yendo18aug18,1,2482663.story
[Free registration required]
Brody, Jeff, "Vietnamese publisher, community leader dies: Yen Do,
journalist,
businessman and patron to many helped build Little Saigon," OC
Register, 18
August 2006
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1247098.php
Bharath, Deepa, "Do's death leaves void in Little Saigon: The publisher
is
remembered as a giant of a businessman and humanitarian," OC Register,
19
August 2006
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/homepage/article_1248401.php
Nguyen, Daisy, "Yen Ngoc Do, pioneering journalist: Founded 1st
Vietnamese-language Paper in U.S.," San Jose Mercury News, August 19,
2006. (AP
dispatch) (Web version published a day earlier)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15312864.htm
(Free
registration required)
"Ong Ðo Ngoc Yen qua doi," Nguoi Viet, August 17, 2006
http://www.nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=47510
dan Daniel C. Tsang Host, Subversity "What's behind and beyond the Orange Curtain" Mondays 9-10 a.m. on 88.9 fm, kuci.org KUCI talk page: http://kuci.org/talk/ Subversity: http://kuci.org/~dtsang E-mail: subversity@kuci.org Daniel Tsang, KUCI, PO Box 4362, Irvine CA 92616, USA Member, National Writers' Union, http://www.nwu.org NWU is the nation's only labor union for freelancers Member, UC-AFT Local 2226 at UC Irvine