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20th annual CelebrAsian - Jewels of Asia
A newfound perspective in 2023
May 29
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Jane Nguyen
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Show Me the Way
Through the Eyes of a Refugee Child
May 4
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Jane Nguyen
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Show Me the Way
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March 2023
A Long Journey to a Global Classroom
In my childhood home on Terrace Drive in Carroll, Iowa, I had a playroom in the basement. I had a play kitchen, doll beds, dress-up clothes, and wooden…
Mar 20
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Jane Nguyen
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February 2023
The Classic Question: What do you want to be when you grow up?
As an elementary student in the 80s, I was fascinated by my teachers. I would carefully study their every move in the classroom. They always appeared to…
Feb 26
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Jane Nguyen
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January 2023
From South Korea to Iowa; a lavish life left behind to chase the American Dream
As a little girl, in Busan, South Korea, Le Wang loved pretty dresses. Her father, Hou Shiang Wang, owned an upscale restaurant on the very top floor of…
Jan 23
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Asian in the 80s - a glorious time of innocence, a time of great ignorance
Growing up in West Central Iowa, I thought I knew who I was. I had lived in the same town since I was four. I was Jane, a girl with lots of friends, who…
Jan 11
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Jane Nguyen
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A Saigon orphan finds her home in Iowa
The Vietnam War lasted ten years and with it came almost 1 million orphans — including me, now a resident of West Des Moines and an almost lifelong…
Jan 1
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Jane Nguyen
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December 2022
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This is The Asian Iowan, a newsletter about people, food & culture written by a lifelong Iowan who was born in Saigon.
Dec 27, 2022
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Jane Nguyen
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