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May Lee Yang
May Lee-Yang, also known as May Lee (Romanized Popular Alphabet, RPA: ''Mev Lis Yaj'', Pahawh Hmong, Pahawh: '), is a Hmong American playwright, poet, prose writer, performance artist and community activist in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. She was born in Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in Thailand and moved to Minnesota as a child with her family. She is also the executive director of the non-profit organization Hmong Arts Connection. Theater Her theater-based works include ''Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman'', ''Sia(b)'', ''Ten Reasons Why I'd Be a Bad Porn Star'', ''Stir-Fried Pop Culture'', and ''The Child's House''. Her work has been produced through Mu Performing Arts, the Center for Hmong Art and Talent (CHAT), Out North Theater, Kaotic Good Productions, Intermedia Arts, and the Minnesota Fringe Festival as well as toured to various locations around the Midwest. Writing Her writing has appeared in the ''Paj Ntaub Voice'' Hmong literary journal, ''The Saint Paul Almanac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanized Popular Alphabet
The Romanized Popular Alphabet (RPA) or Hmong RPA (also Roman Popular Alphabet), is a system of romanization for the various dialects of the Hmong language. Created in Laos between 1951 and 1953 by a group of missionaries and Hmong people, Hmong advisers, it has gone on to become the most widespread system for writing the Hmong language in the West. It is also used in Southeast Asia and China alongside other writing systems, most notably Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong and Pahawh Hmong. History In Xiangkhoang Province, Protestant missionary G. Linwood Barney began working on the writing system with speakers of Green Mong (Mong Leng), Geu Yang and Tua Xiong, among others. He consulted with William A. Smalley, a missionary studying the Khmu language in Luang Prabang Province at the time. Concurrently, Yves Bertrais, a Roman Catholic missionary in Kiu Katiam, Luang Prabang, was undertaking a similar project with Chong Yeng Yang and Chue Her Thao. The two working groups met in 1952 and reconcile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |