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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : Ferguson, Jane; Schwenkel, Christina (2012-01) - In her lively, grounded, and altogether compelling ethnography, Christina Schwenkel offers readers a rich anthropological examination of representation and memory on the US war in Vietnam. Within a field of inquiry unduly dominated by American perspectives, at least in the English-language accounts, this book promises to unhinge some of those value-laden premises that create certain notions of war memory.
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Tác giả : Lainez, Nicolas (2012-01) - This essay explores how the family commodifies the sexuality and emotional labor of the daughter for the interests of the family. The case study presented above illustrates the ways in which a commodified sexual economy occurs in the context of an indebted and economically vulnerable household in An Giang Province (Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam). In this family, “transactional sex” is one of the resources employed to ameliorate the debt incurred. The study shows the ways in which the mother provides, initiates, and maintains the conditions for the sexual commodification of her daughter through the power situated within the mother-daughter relationship and the narrative of gratitude a...
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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : Roustan, Frédéric (2012-01) - The presence of Japanese prostitutes in French colonial Tonkin started around the middle of the 1880s. That colonial culture enclosed these girls within the category of the mousmé. This article analyzes the discourses and activities of several actors inside the colony who participated in the refinement of this essentialist category in order to understand the symbolic commodification of Japanese women's bodies. Once they were released onto the prostitution market, Japanese women were classified and marked by the representations of male colonial society, which constructed all facets of these women, from their moral qualities to their visibility.
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Tác giả : 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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Tác giả : Henriot, Christian (2012-01) - Women figure prominently in the historiography of modern Vietnam. Apart from the long tradition of equating women’s virtues with courage and ardent patriotism dating back to the Trưng sisters, Vietnamese women have played an admirable, though often less than enviable, role in the successive international, domestic, and even internecine conflicts that punctuated Vietnam’s incorporation into a globalized world. In the master narrative of the Vietnamese state, women carry the charged aura of the nation. As mothers, workers, and fighters they embody a complete array of icons around which Vietnamese can proudly and justifiably rally.
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Tác giả : 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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