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From champion to refugee to martial-arts teacher, a kickboxing innovator tells of his career, remarkable survival of the Cambodian genocide, and journey toward self-understanding.
List of contents
Preface
1 – Father and Daughter
2 – Childhood
3 – Pradal Serey
4 – Champion
5 – Genocide
6 – Refugee
7 – America
8 – Long Beach
9 –Attack
10 – Return
Notes
Afterword " Oum Ry's Life in the Context of Cambodia's History" by Michael G. Vann, Ph.D.
Appendices:
Timeline
Archive: Photographs and Documents
Acknowledgments
About the author
Zochada Tat is Oum Ry’s daughter, an author, and kickboxing instructor. She took her first steps in the ring at Long Beach Kickboxing and has trained with him throughout her life. She traveled with him to Cambodia in February 2022 and helped translate his oral history.
Summary
From champion to refugee to martial-arts teacher, a kickboxing innovator tells of his career, remarkable survival of the Cambodian genocide, and journey toward self-understanding.
Foreword
Media Campaign
International Print and Broadcast Campaign: targeting NPR (national and California affiliates), BBC, 60 Minutes, New York Times, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star, LA Times, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Independent, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, The Nation, Slate, etc.
Specific pitches to Asian-American magazines, podcasts, writers and editors
Social Media Campaign
DRCs available through Edelweiss
Dedicated publicist Justin HargettAuthor tour: Long Beach, Los Angeles, Bay Area
Academic speaking both virtual and in public with the authors and Dr. Michael G. Vann, historian at Cal State University, Sacramento and author of
the graphic history The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018)Outreach to kickboxing/MMA clubs and associations who have invited Oum Ry to give demonstrations of his unique moves and techniques
