Collection's Items (Sorted by Submit Date in Descending order): 1 to 20 of 248
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Authors: Truitt, Allison; Lai, Thanh Ha (2012-07) - In December 2011, National Public Radio listed Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out & Back Again as one of the best children’s books of the year. Billed also as a novel in verse, the book won the 2011 National Book Award. The author delved into her own recollections of Vietnam, her family’s flight in 1975, and the first months of their uneasy residence in Alabama as material for capturing the “emotional life” of the main character, Ha.
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Authors: Phạm, Phương Chi; Janette, Michele (2012-07) - Mỹ Việt: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962–Present by Michele Janette includes writings of prominent Vietnamese American authors since 1962. The collection features writings that range from those published in the
early 1960s, such as “Electioneering: Vietnamese Style” (Asian Survey, 1962) by Thi Tuyet Mai and No Passenger on the River (Vantage Press, 1965) by Tran Van Dinh, to writings currently published and unpublished, such as Breaking the Map (Blue Begonia Press, 2008) by Kim An Lieberman, Living Dead in Denmark by Quy Nguyen, and “It was His Story” by Khanh Ho. The book is a promising potential canon of sorts for courses and research on Vietnamese American literatu...
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Authors: Nguyen, Marguerite Bich; Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy (2012-07) - Isabelle Pelaud’s This Is All I Choose to Tell begins with a few words from George W. Bush on the war in Iraq: “One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people,’ ‘re-education camps,’ and ‘killing fields’”. Pelaud shows that Bush’s new gloss on American history does not fundamentally restructure US narratives about the Vietnam War, but is simply another act of writing Vietnam on America’s own terms.
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Authors: Kelley, Liam C. (2012-07) - I would like to sincerely thank Tạ Chí Đại Trường and Keith Taylor for taking the time to read and comment on my paper, “The Biography of the Hồng Bàng Clan as a Medieval Vietnamese Invented Tradition.” An anonymous reader of the essay pointed out that this topic has long been neglected for various reasons. As the comments of both of these scholars make clear, this is not because there is little to say about the subject. To the contrary, there is a great deal that can and still needs to be said. The problem is finding an effective way to do so.
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Authors: Taylor, Keith W. (2012-07) - While premodern Vietnamese scholars accepted the “Story of Hồng Bàng Clan” as an explanation for the birth of the nation, they reserved some skepticism about its origin and reliability. Such skepticism reflects the normal nature of intellectuals and would strike a chord with the scientific practices of the present. However, this skepticism would be unacceptable to rulers or power-seekers who want to embellish the legend to attract public support and augment their power, as ambitious and power-hungry politicians often do.
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Authors: Tạ, Chí Đại Trường (2012-07) - While premodern Vietnamese scholars accepted the “Story of Hồng Bàng Clan” as an explanation for the birth of the nation, they reserved some skepticism about its origin and reliability. Such skepticism reflects the normal nature of intellectuals and would strike a chord with the scientific practices of the present. However, this skepticism would be unacceptable to rulers or power-seekers who want to embellish the legend to attract public support and augment their power, as ambitious and power-hungry politicians often do.
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Authors: Kelley, Liam C. (2012-07) - This paper critically examines an account called the “Biography of the Hồng Bàng Clan” in a fifteenth-century text, the Arrayed Tales of Selected Oddities from South of the Passes [Lĩnh Nam chích quái liệt truyện]. This account is the source for the “historical” information about the Hùng kings. Scholars have long argued that this information was transmitted orally from the first millennium BCE until it was finally written down at some point after Vietnam became autonomous in the tenth century. In contrast, this paper argues that this information about the Hùng kings was created after Vietnam became autonomous and constitutes an “invented tradition.”
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Authors: Li, Tana (2012-07) - This article attempts to piece together the available data on Sino-Vietnamese trade of northern Vietnam in the early nineteenth century with a focus on its upland region. This essay shares the views expressed in the works by Oscar Salemink, Philip Talor, Sarah Turner and other scholars on northern uplands, and in particular their rejection of the "urban-rural," "advanced-backward," "civilized-barbarian," lowland-highland dichotomies. But building upon these works, this essay also tries to determine what proportion of overland and maritime trade made up the Nguyen revenue, and to understand the interactions among various peoples living between the mountains and the sea. The data seems ...
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Authors: Nguyễn, Thu Hương (2012-07) - The intersection of assumptions, stereotypes and social notions embedded within cultural understandings of gender, class, age, and other signifiers of inequality both shapes and delimits how a particular incident of rape is portrayed in the Vietnamese print media. One-sided and insensitive ways of reporting unwittingly exacerbate the suffering of victims, turning them into objects of criticism in local opinion. The activism shown by some quarters of the media has had a positive effect in encouraging rape victims and their families to come forward and use newspapers to air their grievances and seek justice by working within and sometimes around institutional structures.
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Authors: Bourdeaux, Pascal (2012-07) - Having lived in Paris starting in the summer of 1919 at the latest, Nguyễn Ái Quốc committed himself to the struggle against colonization and joined forces with all those with allied objectives who could support his cause before drawing nearer to the French Communist Party in 1920. During the course of 1921, he learned of a group of French Protestants who hoped to undertake an exploratory mission in Indochina. In the letter that he addresses to the pastor pioneering the project, Nguyễn Ái Quốc clearly exposes the contradictions of a process that is doubtlessly laudable yet still quite contrary in nature, since evangelization was an accomplice to colonization. These research notes pres...
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Authors: Ho, Chi Minh (2012-07) - Two portions of the text were underlined by Hồ Chí Minh and I have preserved the underlining in my translation. In addition, there is one instance where the name “Monet” has been written in all capital letters. I have preserved this, though it might very well be a typographical error on the part of Hồ Chí Minh.
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Authors: Mcelwee, Pamela; Avieli, Nir (2012-07) - Hội An has long been famed throughout Vietnam as a food-lovers destination. This is largely the result of home-grown specialties, such as cao lầu noodles, that can only be made by three families and only with the water from a single well. In his delicious new book, Rice Talks, Israeli anthropologist Nir Avieli explores this city’s devotion to local palates and customs.
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Authors: Grant, Sarah; Luong, Hy V. (2012-07) - In this comprehensive and thoroughly researched edited volume, Hy Van Luong offers readers the culmination of two interconnected and timely projects on rural-urban migration, urbanization, and poverty with attention to specific regional and sociocultural dynamics in Vietnam. In Hồ Chí Minh City, research sites in Cầu Kho, Tân Bình, and Bình Chánh illuminate the underlying factors of urban poverty, income inequality, and access to health care and credit markets. In Long An and Quảng Ngãi provinces, the study reveals the importance of social and kinship networks in facilitating urban integration.
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Authors: Dutton, George; Vu - Hill, Kim Loan (2012-07) - Kimloan Vu-Hill’s Coolies into Rebels represents a long overdue examination of Vietnamese participation in France’s struggles during the First World War. Using primarily French archival sources, the author traces the process by
which Vietnamese men were recruited in Indochina for overseas labor or military service in France during the period between 1915 and 1919. This is a story that has not previously been told (indeed it represents barely a footnote in most modern scholarship), and Kim Loan Vu-Hill remedies this in successful and straightforward fashion.
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Authors: Small, Ivan V. (2012-07) - In Vietnam, international remittances from the diaspora are a significant input into the national economy. Yet beyond capital transfer, remittance economies are also key social nodes offering insight into the extension of imaginations, expectations, and desires that accompany them. This article examines the role of gifting remittances in reestablishing, maintaining, and straining kinship networks disrupted by refugee exile, and catalyzing shifting aspirations and mobile horizons. Drawing on fieldwork from Vietnam's southern and central coast regions, this essay interrogates the anthropological question of the mediatory role of gifts in social exchange relations. It argues that the lon...
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Authors: Cannon, Alexander M. (2012-07) - Each time I approach the house of Master Musician [Nhạc sư] Nguyễn Vĩnh Bảo in Bình Thạnh District of Hồ Chí Minh City, I think of these unheeded words of warning given by a friend who provided directions. On my first journey, I became lost walking through what seemed like an endless maze of sub-streets leading to alleyways that provided many opportunities to make a wrong turn. I was only a few weeks into my first research trip to Vietnam, and ordinarily, I relished getting lost in a new city; however, I was already late and drawing far too much attention to myself.
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Authors: Tran, Quan Tue (2012-07) - This essay examines the controversial stories and implications of two memorials built in March 2005 by former boat people from Vietnam on Pulau Bidong (Malaysia) and on Pulau Galang (Indonesia) to commemorate the refugee exodus that ensued after the end of the Vietnam War (April 1975). Tracing the histories and analyzing the contents of these objects, this essay not only illuminates the intertwining social, cultural, political, economic, moral, and spiritual dimensions of contemporary diasporic Vietnamese commemorative practices, but also explains how and why these commemorative practices are entangled in local, national, international, and transnational dynamics and therefore have mu...
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Authors: Dao, Anh Thang (2012-07) - In existing scholarship, the formation of the Vietnamese Diaspora is often described as a result of the Second Indochina War. In this essay I examine other national and international historical events, such as the Vietnamese government's persecution of ethnic Chinese, the Cold War and French colonization of Vietnam, that contributed to the internal multiplicity and diversity of the Vietnamese Diaspora. Reading Thuan's novel Chinatown within the theoretical framework of freedom, I argue that a centuries-long history of political negotiation between Vietnam and international actors such as China and France has resulted in the oppression, internal exile and displacement of not only Vietn...
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Authors: Rettig, Tobias (2012-07) - In the second half of 1944, the majority of the roughly fourteen thousand Vietnamese workers who had arrived in France four years earlier, but remained stranded there following France's defeat in June 1940, took advantage of the power vacuum created by the liberation of France. They would launch a diasporic-metropolitan precursor of the Vietnamese August Revolution of 1945 by successfully claiming workers' rights and a sense of dignity they had previously been denied. Loosely adopting Hirschman's concepts of "exit, voice, and loyalty," this essay investigates the strategies chosen by this subaltern imperial workforce to emancipate itself from the militarized labor camp system. It argu...
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Authors: Cannon, Alexander M (2012-07) - This special issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies emerged from conversations that took place in March 2010 at a conference held at the University of Washington titled “Beyond Borders: Alternate Voices and Histories of the Vietnamese Diaspora.” The conference served as the third and final installment in the Beyond Borders series and aimed to encourage new scholarship that overturns prevalent assumptions in academic work on Vietnam.
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