PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
August 17, 2005
Volume 6 of Hmong Studies Journal is published at www.hmongstudies.org
SAINT PAUL, MN – The Hmong Resource Center of the Hmong Cultural Center has published the online
edition of volume 6 of the Hmong Studies Journal. An internet-based journal, The Hmong Studies Journal is
the only peer-reviewed academic publication devoted to the scholarly discussion of Hmong history, Hmong
culture, Hmong people, and other facets of the Hmong experience in the U.S., Asia and around the world. The
Hmong Studies Journal has now published 8 online issues in 6 volumes with a total of 40 scholarly articles
since 1996.
Mark E. Pfeifer, PhD editor of the Hmong Studies Journal and director of the Hmong Resource Center Library
in Saint Paul stated: “Volume 6 brings the Hmong Studies Journal to a new level. Never before in the journal’s
9 year history has the publication been able to feature in a single volume articles from so many scholars on
such a range of important issues in the cross-disciplinary field of Hmong Studies. The articles in Volume 6
address pressing matters in contemporary Hmong Studies research including confusion over the size of the
Hmong population in China, glaring historical inaccuracies about the Hmong that have been passed along in
recent works of popular literature, the undercount of Hmong in the American census and the adaptation of
smaller Hmong populations in diaspora communities such as that residing in French Guiana.” Pfeifer
concludes: “Volume 6 of the journal includes a well-balanced set of articles that provide important additions to
both Hmong-American research and the larger body of academic work being done related to Hmong in Asia
and across the diaspora.”
Hmong Studies Journal Volume 6 will also be available in a special print edition in the Fall of 2005. In addition
to the 11 newly published scholarly articles, the print edition will include additional Hmong Studies
bibliographic content.
HMONG STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 6 ARTICLES
1. "Who is Hmong? Questions and Evidence from the U.S. Census" by Wayne Carroll and Victoria Udalova,
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/CarrollandUdalovaHSJ6.pdf
2. "Hmong and Lao Refugee Women: Reflections of a Hmong-American Woman Anthropologist" by Dia Cha,
Saint Cloud State University.
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/ChaHSJ6.pdf
3. “Hmong Resettlement in French Guiana" by Patrick F. Clarkin, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/ClarkinHSJ6.pdf
4. "The Myth of Sonom, the Hmong King" by Robert Entenmann, Saint Olaf College
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/EntenmannHSJ6.pdf
5. "Hmong Cosmology: Proposed Model, Preliminary Insights" by Vincent K. Her, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee. Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/HerHSJ6.pdf
6. "The Shaping of Traditions: Agriculture and Hmong Society" by Gary Yia Lee
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/LeeHSJ6.pdf
7. "What is the actual number of the (H)mong in the World" by Jacques Lemoine
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/LemoineHSJ6.pdf
8. "Hmong Refugee’s Death Fugue" by Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/MaHSJ6.pdf
9. "Continuing the promise: Recruiting and preparing Hmong-American educators for Central Wisconsin" by
Leslie McClain-Ruelle, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Kao Xiong, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/McClainandXiongHSJ6.pdf
10. "Southeast Asian Fathers’ Experiences with Adolescents: Challenges and Change" by Zha Blong Xiong
and Daniel F. Detzner, University of Minnesota.
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/XiongandDetznerHSJ6.pdf
11. "Research Notes from the Field: Tracing the Path of the Ancestors – A Visit to the Hmong in China" by Kou
Yang, California State University, Stanislaus.
Link to View: http://hmongstudies.org/YangHSJ6.pdf
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