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American War in Vietnam, The

Jayne Werner & David Hunt, eds.
As suggested by the title, this collection of essays focuses upon American involvement in the Vietnamese War. These essays were originally written for a symposium in 1988 in which (for the first time since 1975) scholars from both the U.S. and Vietnam met to discuss and debate the war and its impact on their respective nations. Thus, these works (by American authors) though alternately probing and guarded, are always thought-provoking. They display the mind at work in its search for answers, explanations, and meaning. Questions of politics and history (diplomacy, the Tet offensive, Chinese involvement, U.S. war veterans) are considered and reconsidered by such authors as Allen Whiting, Jayne Werner, Nyo Vinh Long, and Paul Comacho. Maps.
$16.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

K.W. Taylor, & John K. Whitmore, eds.
A collection of essays demonstrating ways to read the pasts of Vietnam through detailed analyses of its art, chronicles, legends, documents, and monuments. The many voices heard throughout the book undermine the idea of a single Vietnamese past. Essayists include Tran Quoc Vuong and Shawn McHale (who considers the refashioning and expansion of women's roles in society that occurred through the medium of the printed word from the years 1918 to 1934). Six papers deal with writing (in both stone inscription and paper manuscript) and language in premodern Vietnam. All essays, while varied in presentation, considerations, and interpretations, are connected by their common concerns with language and text--its hermeneutic and epistemological possibilities--and the way in which texts are reedited or recopied to reflect contemporary concerns, reveal modern voices, and shape newer minds.1995. 288 pages.
$26.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

Gender, Household, State:
Doi Moi in Vietnam

Jayne Werner & Danièle Bélanger, eds.
A collection of essays addressing the state of women's lives in Viet Nam during doi moi, the period of market reforms in the 1990s. These fascinating and varied essays illuminate women's daily lives as they are shaped by culture, economics, and traditional ideals.
$20.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

Vu Trong Phung, translated and introduced by Thuy Tranviet
This work by Vu Trong Phung, written in the 1930s, reports and expands on the author's meetings with North Vietnamese women who made an industry of marrying European men. "The Industry of Marrying Europeans" is notable for its sharp observations, pointed humor, and unconventional mix of nonfictional and fictional narration, as well as its attention to voice: Vu Trong Phung records the French-Vietnamese pidgin dialect spoken by these couples. This prolific writer died at the age of twenty-seven, leaving behind one of the most impressive bodies of work in modern Vietnamese literature.
$13.95 (P)
$20.95 (HC)
Vietnam

Franklin E. Huffman & Tran Trong Hai
1980. 3rd printing 1994. 401 pages.
$18.95 (P)
 
Vietnam
- Language Resources

Masaya Shiraishi
Masaya Shiraishi offers a chronological overview of Japanese-Vietnamese relations from the end of WWII to the near present. Japan has a deep political and economic interest in all Southeast Asian nations, but it is with Vietnam in particular (as evidenced during that nation's long and troubled civil war) that this interest runs most deep. Shiraishi's work is a broad look at the major changes, strategies, and situations (including financial assistance and development aid from Japan to Vietnam, international security and trade considerations, and the influence of the ASEAN nations, as well as the United States, on Japanese policies towards Vietnam) that determined diplomatic and economic relations between the two nations. 1990. 174 pages.
$15.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

Nguyen Cochinchina:
Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Li Tana
A historical reassessment of southern Vietnam and its distinct culture. The author illuminates the resourceful qualities of the Dang Trong pioneers, develops a meticulous analysis of the Nguyen trade and taxation systems, and, in the process, redefines the chief cause of the Tay Son rebellion. The author argues that two Vietnamese states with distinctive characteristics existed from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. The southern part, under the rule of the Nguyen dynasty, represented a land of possibility and expansion to northerners. Li Tana's study focuses upon the socio-economics of Nguyen Cochinchina: the role of foreign merchants, the trading economy of the region, demographics, religious and cultural values, the way in which Nguyen rule affected Vietnamese settlers there, relationships with uplanders, and processes of localization and identity formation. This is a well-written study that is broad in both scope and focus.
$23.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

No Other Road to Take:
Memoir of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh

Mai Elliot , trans.
The eminently fascinating woman whose strength, courage, and intelligence made an impact on Vietnamese history has written a memoir that deserves to be read. Born into a peasant family in South Vietnam, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh initially joined the Vietminh resistance against French occupation. In 1960 she led the uprising in Ben Tre province against the Diem regime, was then appointed to the leadership committee of the NLF (National Liberation Front) in her province, and later served as Chairman of the South Vietnam Women's Liberation Association. The oppressive policies of Diem and the problems of civil war and American involvement are written about with powerful immediacy--effectively illustrating the patriotic fervor and determination of those she fought with and helped lead.
$13.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

Opusculum de Sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses: A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and Tonkinese:
A Study of Religion in China and North Vietnam in the Eighteenth Century

Father Adriano di St. Thecla, Translated & Annotated by Olga Dror
This 1750 text, written by a Catholic missionary in Tonkin, is the earliest known systematic first-hand account of Vietnamese religious practice. It was recently discovered in a Paris archive and will be of interest to a broad array of scholars, including those of history, anthropology, and religious studies. "Challenges the contemporary understanding of Vietnamese history and culture in all major fronts....This work makes it clearer than ever that there was no definite boundary between 'great' and 'little' traditions, between urban or court culture and rural culture, and between 'Chinese' and 'Vietnamese'. It is even more admirable that such significant findings are carefully annotated and cross-referenced with an enormous body of sources from both classic and contemporary scholarship. This is a first-class piece which marks a new stage in Vietnamese studies." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
$32.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

Vinh Sinh, editor & translator
Phan Châu Trinh (1872–1926) was the earliest proponent of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam. He favored a moderate approach to political change and advised Vietnam’s leaders to seek reform within the French colonial system rather than organize violent resistance. This collection of four of Phan’s essays, accompanied by Vinh Sinh’s masterly introduction, illuminates both this turbulent era and the courageous intelligence of the author.
$20.95 (P)
$41.95 (HC)
Vietnam

Possessed by the Spirits:
Mediumship in Contemporary Vietnamese Communities

ed. Karen FJELSTAD and Nguyen THI HIEN.
Essays examining the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic "Renovation" period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions and interactions.
$20.95 (P)
$41.95 (HC)
Vietnam

David G. Marr and Christine P. White, eds.
This compilation of essays comes from a Joint Committee on Southeast Asia and the Social Science Research Council conference (the theme of which was Tradition and Revolution). The papers selected for this anthology concentrate upon domestic questions, economic policies, and, most importantly, upon socialist development and ideology. They take for their subject matter such varied topics as education, economics (since the Vietnamese hope for the establishment of immediate large-scale socialism has long since dissolved into various economic crises and adaptations), the role of the military, questions of leadership, and economic assistance and humanitarian aid. Authors include Susanne Rubin, Melanie Beresford, Max Spoor, and Carlyle A. Thayer.
$15.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

Choi Byung Wook
This study of nineteenth-century Vietnam focuses on interactions between the Vietnamese king, Minh Mang, and the heterogeneous southern region of the country, which he sought to bring more firmly under state control through a series of polices intended to “Vietnamize” the populace and unite north and south.
$20.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

Milton E. Osborne
The strategic hamlet program in South Vietnam deserves careful consideration in light of the fact that war had been the central fact of many Vietnamese lives for many years. This paper delineates both the development of the program and studies the effect that the seemingly similar Communist insurrection in Malaysia (known as the Malayan Emergency) had upon American dealings with the insurgency in South Vietnam. Osborne, in one fascinating and revealing chapter, presents the commentary of both the Allied and North Vietnamese officials upon the successes and failures, real or perceived, of this program. An illuminating, focused, and important work. 1965. 2nd printing 1968. 66 pages.
$6.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

Nguyen Dinh Tham
This work contains over 2,500 entries to guide those students and scholars interested in the languages and literature of Vietnam. The books, monographs, and journal articles considered are those written in the Western languages (especially French and English). Meticulously researched and indexed (under such general headings as folk literature, language, the language of ethnic minorities and numerous sub-headings), this bibliography is both the first of its kind and an invaluable tool of reference. 1992. 227 pages.
$23.95 (P)
 
Vietnam

Olga DROR and K. W. TAYLOR (introduced & annotated)
This volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators with different interests who are viewing different parts of Vietnam at an early stage of European involvement in the region.
$23.95 (P)
$46.95 (HC)