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The large number of Vietnamese refugees that resettled in the
United States since the fall of Saigon have become America's
fastest growing immigrant group. Toward a Framework for Vietnamese
American Studies traces the ideologies, networks, and cultural
sensibilities that have long influenced and continue to transform
social, political, and economic developments in Vietnam and the
U.S. Moving beyond existing approaches, the editors and
contributors to this volume-the first to craft a working framework
for researching, teaching, and learning about this dynamic
community-present a new Vietnamese American historiography that
began in South Vietnam. They provide deep-dive explorations into
community development, political activism, civic participation and
engagement, as well as entrepreneurial endeavors. Chapters offer
new concepts and epistemological approaches to how legacy and
memory is nurtured, produced and circulated in the Vietnamese
diaspora. Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies seeks
to better understand the rapidly changing landscape of Vietnamese
American diaspora. Contributors: Duyen Bui, Christian Collet, Wynn
Gadkar-Wilcox, Elwing Suong Gonzalez, Tuan Hoang, Jennifer A.
Huynh, Y Thien Nguyen, Nguyen Vu Hoang, Van Nguyen-Marshall,
Thien-Huong Ninh, Hai-Dang Phan, Ivan V. Small, Quan Tue Tran, Thuy
Vo Dang, and the editors
The large number of Vietnamese refugees that resettled in the
United States since the fall of Saigon have become America's
fastest growing immigrant group. Toward a Framework for Vietnamese
American Studies traces the ideologies, networks, and cultural
sensibilities that have long influenced and continue to transform
social, political, and economic developments in Vietnam and the
U.S. Moving beyond existing approaches, the editors and
contributors to this volume-the first to craft a working framework
for researching, teaching, and learning about this dynamic
community-present a new Vietnamese American historiography that
began in South Vietnam. They provide deep-dive explorations into
community development, political activism, civic participation and
engagement, as well as entrepreneurial endeavors. Chapters offer
new concepts and epistemological approaches to how legacy and
memory is nurtured, produced and circulated in the Vietnamese
diaspora. Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies seeks
to better understand the rapidly changing landscape of Vietnamese
American diaspora. Contributors: Duyen Bui, Christian Collet, Wynn
Gadkar-Wilcox, Elwing Suong Gonzalez, Tuan Hoang, Jennifer A.
Huynh, Y Thien Nguyen, Nguyen Vu Hoang, Van Nguyen-Marshall,
Thien-Huong Ninh, Hai-Dang Phan, Ivan V. Small, Quan Tue Tran, Thuy
Vo Dang, and the editors
This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made
important contributions to theory building in comparative politics
through a dialogue involving theory, area studies, and qualitative
methodology. The book provides a state-of-the-art review of key
topics in the field, including: state structures, political
regimes, political parties, contentious politics, civil society,
ethnicity, religion, rural development, globalization, and
political economy. The chapters allow readers to trace the
development of Southeast Asian politics and to address central
debates in comparative politics. The book will serve as a valuable
reference for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars of
Southeast Asian politics, and comparativists engaged in theoretical
debates at the heart of political science.
Western observers have long considered communism to be synonymous
with Vietnam’s modern historical experience. Eager to make sense
of the North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War, scholars and
journalists have spilled much ink on the history of Vietnamese
communists. But this preoccupation has obscured the diversity of
ideas and experiences that defined Vietnam in the twentieth
century, in which communism represented just one of many
tendencies. Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963,
posits that republicanism shaped modern Vietnam no less profoundly
than communism. Republicans championed representative government,
the universal rights of man, civil liberties, and the primacy of
the nation. These ideas infused the thinking of Vietnamese
reformers, dissidents, and revolutionaries from the 1900s onward,
including many men and women who went on to lead the struggle for
independence. Republicanism was also one of the chief inspirations
for the establishment of the Republic of Vietnam (also known as
South Vietnam) in 1955. This interdisciplinary volume brings
together eleven essays by historians, political scientists,
literary scholars, and sociologists, who make use of fresh sources
to study the development of republicanism from the colonial period
to the First Republic of Vietnam (1955–1963). The introduction by
coeditors Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu critically analyzes the existing
scholarship on the First Republic, explains how the concept of
republicanism can illuminate developments in the Saigon-based
state, and situates the regime in a comparative context with South
Korea. Peter Zinoman’s chapter reviews the historiography on
republicanism and modern Vietnam and heralds the arrival of the
"republican moment" in the field of Vietnam studies. Several
chapters by Nguyễn Lương Hải Khôi, Martina Thucnhi Nguyen,
and Yen Vu examine the transformation of republican ideas. Nu-Anh
Tran and Duy Lap Nguyen explore competing concepts of democracy and
the factional politics of the First Republic. The essays by Jason
Picard, Cindy Nguyen, Hoà ng Phong Tuấn, Nguyễn Thị
Minh, and Y Thien Nguyen analyze nation- and state-building efforts
in the 1950s and 1960s. Collectively, the essays give voice to
Vietnamese republicans, from the ideas they espoused to the
institutions they built and the legacies they left behind.
This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made
important contributions to theory building in comparative politics
through a dialogue involving theory, area studies, and qualitative
methodology. The book provides a state-of-the-art review of key
topics in the field, including: state structures, political
regimes, political parties, contentious politics, civil society,
ethnicity, religion, rural development, globalization, and
political economy. The chapters allow readers to trace the
development of Southeast Asian politics and to address central
debates in comparative politics. The book will serve as a valuable
reference for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars of
Southeast Asian politics, and comparativists engaged in theoretical
debates at the heart of political science.
Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers,
journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975,
presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a
passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese,
rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the
United States government. The moving and honest memoirs collected,
translated, and edited here by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear describe the
experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from
many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam's Second
Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally
call the "Vietnam War." The voices gift the reader a sense of the
authors' experiences in the Republic and their ideas about the
nation during that time. The light and careful editing hand of Vu
and Fear reveals that far from a Cold War proxy struggle, the
conflict in Vietnam featured a true ideological divide between the
communist North and the non-communist South.
Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers,
journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975,
presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a
passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese,
rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the
United States government. The moving and honest memoirs collected,
translated, and edited here by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear describe the
experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from
many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam's Second
Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally
call the "Vietnam War." The voices gift the reader a sense of the
authors' experiences in the Republic and their ideas about the
nation during that time. The light and careful editing hand of Vu
and Fear reveals that far from a Cold War proxy struggle, the
conflict in Vietnam featured a true ideological divide between the
communist North and the non-communist South.
By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80
years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and
peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of
their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy.
Unearthing new material from Vietnamese archives and publications,
this book challenges the conventional scholarship and the popular
image of the Vietnamese revolution and the Vietnam War as being
driven solely by patriotic inspirations. The revolution not only
saw successes in defeating foreign intervention, but also failures
in bringing peace and development to Vietnam. This was, and is, the
real tragedy of Vietnam. Spanning the entire history of the
Vietnamese revolution and its aftermath, this book examines its
leaders' early rise to power, the tumult of three decades of war
with France, the US, and China, and the stubborn legacies left
behind which remain in Vietnam today.
By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80
years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and
peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of
their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy.
Unearthing new material from Vietnamese archives and publications,
this book challenges the conventional scholarship and the popular
image of the Vietnamese revolution and the Vietnam War as being
driven solely by patriotic inspirations. The revolution not only
saw successes in defeating foreign intervention, but also failures
in bringing peace and development to Vietnam. This was, and is, the
real tragedy of Vietnam. Spanning the entire history of the
Vietnamese revolution and its aftermath, this book examines its
leaders' early rise to power, the tumult of three decades of war
with France, the US, and China, and the stubborn legacies left
behind which remain in Vietnam today.
Why have some states in the developing world been more successful
at facilitating industrialization than others? Challenging theories
that privilege industrial policy and colonial legacies, this book
focuses on state structure and the politics of state formation,
arguing that a cohesive state structure is as important to
developmental success as effective industrial policy. Based on a
comparison of six Asian cases, including both capitalist and
socialist states with varying structural cohesion, Tuong Vu proves
that it is state formation politics rather than colonial legacies
that have had decisive and lasting impacts on the structures of
emerging states. His cross-national comparison of South Korea,
Vietnam, Republican and Maoist China, and Sukarno's and Suharto's
Indonesia, which is augmented by in-depth analyses of state
formation processes in Vietnam and Indonesia, is an important
contribution to understanding the dynamics of state formation and
economic development in Asia.
Why have some states in the developing world been more successful
at facilitating industrialization than others? Challenging theories
that privilege industrial policy and colonial legacies, this book
focuses on state structure and the politics of state formation,
arguing that a cohesive state structure is as important to
developmental success as effective industrial policy. Based on a
comparison of six Asian cases, including both capitalist and
socialist states with varying structural cohesion, Tuong Vu proves
that it is state formation politics rather than colonial legacies
that have had decisive and lasting impacts on the structures of
emerging states. His cross-national comparison of South Korea,
Vietnam, Republican and Maoist China, and Sukarno's and Suharto's
Indonesia, which is augmented by in-depth analyses of state
formation processes in Vietnam and Indonesia, is an important
contribution to understanding the dynamics of state formation and
economic development in Asia.
English-language scholarship all too often dismisses South Vietnam
as an American creation, a product of US imperialism. Republican
Vietnam boldly upends this depiction, exposing a diverse and
dynamic portrait of the Second Republic. In twelve essays, each
based on original archival research, the volume brings to life the
Second Republic in all its complexities, displaying how
politicians, students, educators, publishers, journalists,
musicians, religious leaders, businessmen, and ordinary citizens
built a highly intricate society—with dazzling entrepreneurial
zeal, an outspoken press, globally engaged religions, a vibrant
intellectual and associational culture, and a level of artistic
production that remains unmatched since the Vietnam War. That
inspired and frenzied age, though short lived, held a resilient
spirit that Vietnamese refugees have kept alive. The trove of
vernacular music and print media, not to mention the many
associations the Vietnamese diaspora founded, exemplify the
republican values that once energized South Vietnamese culture. But
this nuanced society has appeared in popular media and American
scholarship as a hopelessly dependent nation, led by corrupt
dictators beholden to US interests. In contrast to such negative
stereotypes, this account situates South Vietnamese front and
center as agents of their own histories. Republican Vietnam is the
first collection of scholarly essays on the Second Republic since
the end of the Vietnam War. It is also among the first to use
republicanism as a lens to re-examine twentieth-century Vietnamese
history, the Vietnam War, and the diaspora. The twelve essays
together show how war, in tandem with external intervention, shaped
South Vietnam’s economy, culture, and the life of every
individual and family. By featuring works from Vietnamese and
Vietnamese diasporic studies, this text takes the important step of
bridging the two fields, laying the foundation for
cross-disciplinary projects in the future.
Western observers have long considered communism to be synonymous
with Vietnam’s modern historical experience. Eager to make sense
of the North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War, scholars and
journalists have spilled much ink on the history of Vietnamese
communists. But this preoccupation has obscured the diversity of
ideas and experiences that defined Vietnam in the twentieth
century, in which communism represented just one of many
tendencies. Building a Republican Nation in Postcolonial Vietnam,
1920–1963, posits that republicanism shaped modern Vietnam no
less profoundly than communism. Republicans championed
representative government, the universal rights of man, civil
liberties, and the primacy of the nation. These ideas infused the
thinking of Vietnamese reformers, dissidents, and revolutionaries
from the 1900s onward, including many men and women who went on to
lead the struggle for independence. Republicanism was also one of
the chief inspirations for the establishment of the Republic of
Vietnam (also known as South Vietnam) in 1955. This
interdisciplinary volume brings together eleven essays by
historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and
sociologists, who make use of fresh sources to study the
development of republicanism from the colonial period to the First
Republic of Vietnam (1955–1963). The introduction by coeditors
Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu critically analyzes the existing
scholarship on the First Republic, explains how the concept of
republicanism can illuminate developments in the Saigon-based
state, and situates the regime in a comparative context with South
Korea. Peter Zinoman’s chapter reviews the historiography on
republicanism and modern Vietnam and heralds the arrival of the
"republican moment" in the field of Vietnam studies. Several
chapters by Nguyễn Lương Hải Khôi, Martina Thucnhi Nguyen,
and Yen Vu examine the transformation of republican ideas. Nu-Anh
Tran and Duy Lap Nguyen explore competing concepts of democracy and
the factional politics of the First Republic. The essays by Jason
Picard, Cindy Nguyen, Hoà ng Phong Tuấn, Nguyễn Thị
Minh, and Y Thien Nguyen analyze nation- and state-building efforts
in the 1950s and 1960s. Collectively, the essays give voice to
Vietnamese republicans, from the ideas they espoused to the
institutions they built and the legacies they left behind.
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