摘要：In another hundred years, as new immigrant groups arrive in the U.S., the children of today's Hmong will hopefully turn to books like I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience to gain a perspective on change. For readers in the present, this book provides a much-needed beginning for the integration of the Hmong story into the fabric of American culture. The Hmong experience becomes multidimensional as Lillian Faderman and her assistant-intermediary Ghia Xiong mould the narratives of thirty-six Hmong into the mosaic of the immigrant experience in America. Faderman writes in the Prologue that: Listening to the Hmong people, young and old, who were my narrators for this oral history, I came to better understand my own experience in America. But much of what they told illuminated not just their lives and my life. They were revealing the fabric that has gone into the making of Americans: they were telling the tale of the immigrants and their children
