Summary: On April 30, 1975, Tuan Hua and his family got on a boat and left Vietnam, their homeland. Saigon had just fallen, officially ending the Vietnam War. The new Communist regime did not favor the ethnic Chinese population, and the Hua family was Teochew, Han Chinese from eastern Guangdong province. Ethnic Chinese dissent is a tale unfortunately familiar to Chinese immigrants across Southeast Asia, including my own family.
