Journal of Vietnamese Studies (Sưu tầm) : [139]

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  • Authors: Duong, Phuoc M,; Harms, Erik (2012-01)

  • Urban development is a double-edged sword. While plans of development transform the material landscape with visions of wealth and luxury, they also work to discipline humanity to the logic of global capital. In Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City, Erik Harms finely illustrates the effects of rapid urban growth on the lives of those who live on the fringe of Hồ Chí Minh City.

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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: 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: 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: 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: Higgins, Rylan; Elliott, Mai V. (2012-01)

  • RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era (hereafter RAND in SEA) is a thoroughly researched and detailed account of the RAND Corporation’s “involvement in insurgency and counterinsurgency research” for the United States government and military in Southeast Asia, as author Mai Elliott phrases the book’s emphasis (v). In addition to her fine-tuned portrait of the history of RAND’s undertakings in Southeast Asia, Elliott provides a chronicle of related US foreign policy and military decisions and actions, and offers accounts of RAND, US government and US military interactions. She also produces lengthy, informative summaries of many RAND studies on, for example, the natur...

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  • Authors: Tracol-Huynh, Isabelle (2012-01)

  • Prostitution in French colonial Tonkin was highly regulated and closely monitored by vice-squad police, physicians, administrators, and even by journalists. As a result, reports from these sources have preserved a wealth of information on the subject. Yet the records present prostitutes as faceless, nameless figures. They lived in the shadows of colonial cities, were forced to work in brothels or in their homes, not in the streets, and forced to hide from the police for fear of being locked up. Their stories now live on in the shadows of the colonial archives where the historian sifts through the fragmentary and often distorted traces of their existence.

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  • Authors: Juan, Karin Aguilar - San; Võ, Đặng Thúy (2011)

  • In this first comprehensive study of Vietnamese American place-making and community-building, Karin Aguilar-San Juan bridges the sociology of immigration and place with critical race studies in her Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America. Based on research conducted between 1994 and 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts and Orange County, California, Little Saigons suggests that the process of ethnic place-making in these distinct urban and suburban sites, respectively, reflects a conscious effort by Vietnamese Americans to “stay Vietnamese” in a “multicultural” American society.

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  • Authors: Martini, Edwin A .; Hoang, Tuan (2011)

  • Focused squarely on the United States, this historical study begins with the provocative premise that there was a postwar war conducted actively by Washington against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). This war, of course, was not a military affair but had to do with economic, cultural, and political aspects. In Edwin Martini’s narrative, the new war was just as hostile against the unified Vietnamese state. It commenced as early as May 1975 with the imposition of economic sanctions by the Ford White House and continued with Jimmy Carter’s and Ronald Reagan’s generally favorable policies towards China and the Khmer Rouge and, correspondingly, averse ones towards the SRV.

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  • Authors: Race, Jeffrey (2011)

  • Jeffrey Race was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1943. After attending that city’s public schools, he graduated from Harvard College in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in government. While at Harvard, Race was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), and he served on active duty in the United States Army in Vietnam during 1965–1967. He returned to Vietnam as a civilian in 1967–1968 to conduct the research that led to his classic 1972 study, War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province.1 He worked as a contractor for the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense in Bangkok during 1968–1969, and received his docto...

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  • Authors: Hoskins, Janet (2011)

  • Religion and nationalism are analytically separated and often even seen as opposing forces. But Cao Dài history and theology fuses religion and nationalism, and their relationship is the defining tension in the life of Ðỗ Vạn Lý (1910-2008). As a revolutionary, diplomat, ambassador, and religious leader, he was both a political and a religious activist who articulated a vision of "Vietnamese exceptionalism" first announced in spirit messages from the 1920s, and later developed into a diasporic theodicy to explain the fall of Sài Gòn and provide a new set of goals for exiled religious practitioners.

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  • Authors: Roustan, Frédéric (2011)

  • Production of contemporary knowledge on Vietnam in Japan began in the early 1880s. The knowledge produced before 1930s was almost exclusively the result of non-academic and non-institutional research. This article explains how the production of knowledge developed and evolved in the framework of two distinct geographical concepts that also defined the two worlds in which Japanese knowledge of Asia was produced. I attempt to understand how a particular area of research was structured in relation to institutions, research methodologies, and the various actors who helped shape Vietnamese Studies in the context of Japanese expansion in Asia.

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  • Authors: Duong, Phuoc M. (2011)

  • The topic of education in Vietnam has garnered significant attention over the past two decades. Any researcher who is interested in Vietnam will have difficulty dismissing education as a social phenomenon, for it carries great significance in nation building and social mobility during a time of unprecedented economic development. On any given day of the week without fail, articles detailing the state of college entrance exams or teenage suicide grace the front covers of popular newspapers such as Tuổi Trẻ or Thanh Niên. Contributing to this growing dialogue on the state of education, the edited volume, Education in Vietnam, by Jonathan London could not have arrived any sooner to shed...

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  • Authors: Kwon, Heonik; Small, Ivan (2011)

  • Scholars often evoke ghosts as metaphors for broader political and historical memories and silences that haunt contemporary modes of social production. Such metaphorical specters, while an important analytic consideration for Heonik Kwon, are not the main point of the ethnographic departure in his book, Ghosts of War in Vietnam.

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  • Authors: Dao, Nga (2011)

  • This paper draws on legal documents, policy analyses, secondary data collection, and primary empirical data on dam construction on the Dà [Black] River to highlight uneven power and development both between Vietnam's lowlands and uplands and within its upland areas. It examines how the Northwest's ecological, cultural and agrarian landscapes have been shaped by state development policies and, in turn, how outcomes have contributed--if at all--to reshaping state policy. The paper also explores real and calculated costs of hydropower to examine accounting practices and how project costs are distributed among stakeholders.

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  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Lentz, Christian C (2011)

  • This paper revisits Lai Châu in late 1953 when the Thái Federation's collapse signaled the rise of a hegemonic Democratic Republic of Vietnam. I use this moment to analyze processes of legitimating and remaking forms of rule and ruling. I illustrate both how a militarized political project configured and articulated itself, as state, and how this self-proclaimed "state" attempted to recruit local people by casting them in a new community, as nation. Making nation and state together produced enduring, and contested, spatial and communal boundaries structuring relations of rule in an emergent "Northwest" region and knowledge of its peoples.

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Journal of Vietnamese Studies (Sưu tầm) : [139]

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Collection's Items (Sorted by Submit Date in Descending order): 1 to 20 of 139
  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Duong, Phuoc M,; Harms, Erik (2012-01)

  • Urban development is a double-edged sword. While plans of development transform the material landscape with visions of wealth and luxury, they also work to discipline humanity to the logic of global capital. In Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City, Erik Harms finely illustrates the effects of rapid urban growth on the lives of those who live on the fringe of Hồ Chí Minh City.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • 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.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • 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.”

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • 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 ...

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • 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.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • 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.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • 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...

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • 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...

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Higgins, Rylan; Elliott, Mai V. (2012-01)

  • RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era (hereafter RAND in SEA) is a thoroughly researched and detailed account of the RAND Corporation’s “involvement in insurgency and counterinsurgency research” for the United States government and military in Southeast Asia, as author Mai Elliott phrases the book’s emphasis (v). In addition to her fine-tuned portrait of the history of RAND’s undertakings in Southeast Asia, Elliott provides a chronicle of related US foreign policy and military decisions and actions, and offers accounts of RAND, US government and US military interactions. She also produces lengthy, informative summaries of many RAND studies on, for example, the natur...

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Tracol-Huynh, Isabelle (2012-01)

  • Prostitution in French colonial Tonkin was highly regulated and closely monitored by vice-squad police, physicians, administrators, and even by journalists. As a result, reports from these sources have preserved a wealth of information on the subject. Yet the records present prostitutes as faceless, nameless figures. They lived in the shadows of colonial cities, were forced to work in brothels or in their homes, not in the streets, and forced to hide from the police for fear of being locked up. Their stories now live on in the shadows of the colonial archives where the historian sifts through the fragmentary and often distorted traces of their existence.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Juan, Karin Aguilar - San; Võ, Đặng Thúy (2011)

  • In this first comprehensive study of Vietnamese American place-making and community-building, Karin Aguilar-San Juan bridges the sociology of immigration and place with critical race studies in her Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America. Based on research conducted between 1994 and 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts and Orange County, California, Little Saigons suggests that the process of ethnic place-making in these distinct urban and suburban sites, respectively, reflects a conscious effort by Vietnamese Americans to “stay Vietnamese” in a “multicultural” American society.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Martini, Edwin A .; Hoang, Tuan (2011)

  • Focused squarely on the United States, this historical study begins with the provocative premise that there was a postwar war conducted actively by Washington against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). This war, of course, was not a military affair but had to do with economic, cultural, and political aspects. In Edwin Martini’s narrative, the new war was just as hostile against the unified Vietnamese state. It commenced as early as May 1975 with the imposition of economic sanctions by the Ford White House and continued with Jimmy Carter’s and Ronald Reagan’s generally favorable policies towards China and the Khmer Rouge and, correspondingly, averse ones towards the SRV.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Race, Jeffrey (2011)

  • Jeffrey Race was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1943. After attending that city’s public schools, he graduated from Harvard College in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in government. While at Harvard, Race was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), and he served on active duty in the United States Army in Vietnam during 1965–1967. He returned to Vietnam as a civilian in 1967–1968 to conduct the research that led to his classic 1972 study, War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province.1 He worked as a contractor for the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense in Bangkok during 1968–1969, and received his docto...

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Hoskins, Janet (2011)

  • Religion and nationalism are analytically separated and often even seen as opposing forces. But Cao Dài history and theology fuses religion and nationalism, and their relationship is the defining tension in the life of Ðỗ Vạn Lý (1910-2008). As a revolutionary, diplomat, ambassador, and religious leader, he was both a political and a religious activist who articulated a vision of "Vietnamese exceptionalism" first announced in spirit messages from the 1920s, and later developed into a diasporic theodicy to explain the fall of Sài Gòn and provide a new set of goals for exiled religious practitioners.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Roustan, Frédéric (2011)

  • Production of contemporary knowledge on Vietnam in Japan began in the early 1880s. The knowledge produced before 1930s was almost exclusively the result of non-academic and non-institutional research. This article explains how the production of knowledge developed and evolved in the framework of two distinct geographical concepts that also defined the two worlds in which Japanese knowledge of Asia was produced. I attempt to understand how a particular area of research was structured in relation to institutions, research methodologies, and the various actors who helped shape Vietnamese Studies in the context of Japanese expansion in Asia.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Duong, Phuoc M. (2011)

  • The topic of education in Vietnam has garnered significant attention over the past two decades. Any researcher who is interested in Vietnam will have difficulty dismissing education as a social phenomenon, for it carries great significance in nation building and social mobility during a time of unprecedented economic development. On any given day of the week without fail, articles detailing the state of college entrance exams or teenage suicide grace the front covers of popular newspapers such as Tuổi Trẻ or Thanh Niên. Contributing to this growing dialogue on the state of education, the edited volume, Education in Vietnam, by Jonathan London could not have arrived any sooner to shed...

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Kwon, Heonik; Small, Ivan (2011)

  • Scholars often evoke ghosts as metaphors for broader political and historical memories and silences that haunt contemporary modes of social production. Such metaphorical specters, while an important analytic consideration for Heonik Kwon, are not the main point of the ethnographic departure in his book, Ghosts of War in Vietnam.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Dao, Nga (2011)

  • This paper draws on legal documents, policy analyses, secondary data collection, and primary empirical data on dam construction on the Dà [Black] River to highlight uneven power and development both between Vietnam's lowlands and uplands and within its upland areas. It examines how the Northwest's ecological, cultural and agrarian landscapes have been shaped by state development policies and, in turn, how outcomes have contributed--if at all--to reshaping state policy. The paper also explores real and calculated costs of hydropower to examine accounting practices and how project costs are distributed among stakeholders.

  • item.jpg
  • Journal Article


  • Authors: Lentz, Christian C (2011)

  • This paper revisits Lai Châu in late 1953 when the Thái Federation's collapse signaled the rise of a hegemonic Democratic Republic of Vietnam. I use this moment to analyze processes of legitimating and remaking forms of rule and ruling. I illustrate both how a militarized political project configured and articulated itself, as state, and how this self-proclaimed "state" attempted to recruit local people by casting them in a new community, as nation. Making nation and state together produced enduring, and contested, spatial and communal boundaries structuring relations of rule in an emergent "Northwest" region and knowledge of its peoples.

Collection's Items (Sorted by Submit Date in Descending order): 1 to 20 of 139