New Mountain, New River, New Home?

About the Book

When the Tasmanian Hmong "gifted" the author with the task of placing their story on record, she set about interviewing this small refugee community in Tasmania, Australia's island state. In addition, she traced the story of the Hmong people from the first references in Chinese literature through their beleaguered history in China until some of them moved into northern Laos where they established themselves as opium farmers. The book describes, to some extent in their own word...