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Before the Revolution

The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French

By: Vĩnh Long Ngô,Ngo Vinh Long

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Before the Revolution

The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French

By: Vĩnh Long Ngô,Ngo Vinh Long

During the French colonial period (1900-1945), Vietnamese peasants wrote vigorously about the effects of French policies on their living conditions. The vast majority of their writings were censored or contradicted by the published works of French and Vietnamese officials, and none is currenty in print. Ngo Vinh Long presents a realistic portrait of the Vietnamese determination and resiliency that brought down both the French and the American regimes. He describes the effects of French land policy on the peasants and the resulting problems in tenant farming and sharecropping, as well as peasant reaction to taxes, tax collections, usury, government agarian credit programs, commerce, and industry. He also translates previously unavailable texts that detail the emotions of the Vietnamese people with regard to the French occupation. For the Morningside Edition, Dr. Long has written a new preface in which he describes new scholarship and changes during the last fifteen years.

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Columbia University Press

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0231076797

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9780231076791

The History of South Vietnam - Lam

The Quest for Legitimacy and Stability, 1963-1967

By: Vinh-The Lam

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The History of South Vietnam - Lam

The Quest for Legitimacy and Stability, 1963-1967

By: Vinh-The Lam

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the political instability of South Vietnam between the two Republics and offers a valuable contribution to the study of the history of Vietnam as it focuses on a decisive period in the history of South Vietnam. A much-needed examination of the political environment of the Republic of Vietnam between 1963-1967, this book shows how South Vietnamese leadership failed to form a stable civilian government and to secure South Vietnam against the increasing threat by North Vietnam. Through a detailed assessment of political difficulties during the period, the book suggests that, to prevent the imminent loss of South Vietnam to the Communist forces, the United States government did not have any other option than to escalate the war by committing its combat ground forces in the South and beginning the sustained bombing in the North. Moreover, the book analyses the administration of General Khánh and Prime Minister Phan Huy Quát and includes a full account of the War Cabinet of General Nguyễn Cao Kỳ. The achievements, the difficulties and the sudden death of the National High Council as well as the confrontation between the Buddhists and the Trần Vãn Hýõng government are also explored. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of the contemporary history of Vietnam, the history of the Republic of Vietnam, the Vietnam War and Southeast Asian history and politics.

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180

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Routledge

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1000246388

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9781000246384

Theoretical Perspectives on Cultural Representations in Vietnamese Children’s Picturebooks

By: Ngoc Tai Huynh,Vinh To,Angela Thomas

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Theoretical Perspectives on Cultural Representations in Vietnamese Children’s Picturebooks

By: Ngoc Tai Huynh,Vinh To,Angela Thomas

This book evaluates the implicit and nuanced meanings embedded in Vietnamese picturebooks and explores the intricate cultural aspects they portray. Through meticulous research, the contributors of this pioneering book unveil the values of contemporary Western analytical frameworks while identifying their limitations. By combining East Asian philosophies with captivating visual texts, this groundbreaking work offers reliable theoretical and practical resources, enabling a profound exploration of Vietnamese culture. This book is more than just a contribution to academia, it’s also a tool for Asia Literacy, enabling intercultural understanding. It also serves as a vital connection to the cultural heritage of Vietnamese children, both at home and abroad. By cultivating positive perceptions of Vietnamese culture among non-Vietnamese children, it aspires to create a society built on harmony, equality, and love.

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196

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527525031

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9781527525030

Full Circle: Memoir of A Vietnamese-Canadian Librarian

By: Vinh-The Lam

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Full Circle: Memoir of A Vietnamese-Canadian Librarian

By: Vinh-The Lam

In Full Circle: Memoir of A Vietnamese-Canadian Librarian, Vinh-The Lam tells the story of his journey from American-trained librarian in South Vietnam to Librarian Emeritus in Canada. After becoming the first US-educated President of the Vietnamese Library Association (VLA) in 1974, Lam worked alongside a team of fellow American-trained librarians to modernize and expand the South Vietnamese library system. He even founded the country’s first library science department at Vạn Hạnh University. But after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, the VLA and all of Lam’s achievements were lost. He spent the next six years in poverty, before emigrating to Canada in 1981 and rebuilding his life and career. With a new start in North America, Lam made valuable contributions to the library community, eventually retiring as Librarian Emeritus from the University of Saskatchewan in 2006. When Vietnam appealed to overseas intellectuals to return and help the country move forward in the aftermath of the collapse of the Communist system, Lam and his former VLA team answered the call, ready to help Vietnam thrive in a new era of innovation and progress. This is the personal memoir of Lam’s full journey, from Vietnam to Canada and back again.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398449032

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9781398449039

Inside Infinity

By: Vinh Quyen

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Inside Infinity

By: Vinh Quyen

Time in the narrative of Inside Infinity takes place just over ten days. However, historical events recounted in the novel span across one hundred years, from the uprising of King Duy Tan in 1916. History is not providing a stage for the characters to act upon; rather, history here is scraps of impressions that awakens the main character’s desire to find genetic code. The main character is a Vietnamese young man who has lived in America for several years collecting documents to write his masters thesis “The Country of Dai Nam - A Great Power of East Asia.” His academic articles also surprise those who are used to thinking of Vietnam as a weak country: the writings confirm an analysis made by the World Bank, that the Vietnam of 1820 was a nation with an average personal income approaching the world average, becoming one of the five largest economies in East Asia, a feat that until now, nearly two centuries later, Vietnamese people have yet to replicate. Then one day he suddenly learns he has a father living alone in Hue, who has fallen into a coma. The young man goes to be with his father, who passes away just ten days later. During this time, the father wakes briefly one final moment; he looks at his son and holds his hand, their first and also their last connection. But that is enough. The young man feels he is now complete. Those ten days in the deserted villa, exploring shelves of ancient books, “conversing” with his father, a PhD of Ethnology, via scattered notes found in a laptop, the son spends searching for his roots... Each character’s journey of mending fractures to connect the infinite past of the clan and of the Vietnamese people is the theme of the novel.

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Ukiyoto Publishing

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935697652X

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9789356976528

Mekong—The Occluding River

The Tale of a River

By: Ngo The Vinh

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Mekong—The Occluding River

The Tale of a River

By: Ngo The Vinh

Part travelogue, part history, and part environmental treatise, Mekong The Occluding River is above all else an urgent warning that factors such as pollution, ecological devastation, and the depletion of natural resources are threatening the very existence of the Mekong River. Author Ngo The Vinh combines his vivid travel notes and collection of photographs with a meticulously researched history of the environmental degradation of the Mekong River. Translated from Vietnamese, the best-selling treatise outlines the myriad threats facing the river today. From oil shipments feeding the industrial cities of southwestern China to gigantic hydroelectric dams known as the Mekong Cascades in Yunnan province, China is the worst environmental offender, though the other nations along Mekongs banks behave no better. From Thailand to Laos to Vietnam, hydroelectric dams that threaten the Mekong and its inhabitants are being built at an alarming rate. To save the Mekong, Ngo The Vinh calls upon all the nations that benefit from its life-giving water to observe the Spirit of the Mekong in the implementation of all future development projects. To achieve this end, there must be a concerted and sustained commitment to cooperation and sustainability. At this critical cross-roads, we should remind ourselves of the mantra from Sea World San Diego: Extinction is forever. Endangered means we still have time.

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iUniverse

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1450239374

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9781450239370

Without Beginning Without End

By: Vinh Liem

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Without Beginning Without End

By: Vinh Liem

Some of my poems in this book were selected from the originals, which were written in Vietnamese. They were translated into English by Mr. Huynh Sanh Thong (a Vietnamese scholar at Yale University), Dr. Ralph S. Carlson (an English Professor at Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California), and Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Bich (Scholar, Virginia). Most of them were written directly in English in the mid 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's. One poem, which I wrote in English, was translated into German by Dr. T.L. Eichman (an English Professor at Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland).

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Lulu.com

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061520497X

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9780615204970

Vietnam War

The New Legion Vol. 1

By: Truong Vinh Truong,Vinh Truong

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Vietnam War

The New Legion Vol. 1

By: Truong Vinh Truong,Vinh Truong

The author discusses the three Axioms in the dominant interpretation of the U.S.-Vietnam War that were established by the invisible permanent government right after the National Security Council meeting on September 21, 1960. They are: - There was never a legitimate non-communist government in Saigon (dissolution GVN) - The U.S. had no legitimate reason to be involved in Vietnamese affairs (Tonkin-Gulf-Incident) - The U.S. could not have won the war under any circumstances (U.S. troops honorable withdrawal) There are many reasons why the author decided to write this book, The New Legion. He felt compelled to write it for the longest time; after spending thirteen years in the Communists' so-called "reeducation camp." He escaped from a canal in the Mekong Delta and drifted in a rickety old boat similar to a child's toy from South Vietnam for fourteen days until he reached the nearest Pacific island, Palawan Islands, Philippines. He knew the pain that all the people who were involved suffered yet he thought that perhaps it might be best to let it become a not-so-distant memory. Now, he has finally decided to write the truth at last. It is the story of loyalty, duty, honor, and love.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426926669

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9781426926662

Vietnam War

The New Legion

By: Vinh Truong

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Vietnam War

The New Legion

By: Vinh Truong

The author discusses the three Axioms in the dominant interpretation of the U.S.-Vietnam War that were established by the invisible permanent government right after the National Security Council meeting on September 21, 1960. They are: - There was never a legitimate non-communist government in Saigon (dissolution GVN) - The U.S. had no legitimate reason to be involved in Vietnamese affairs (Tonkin-Gulf-Incident) - The U.S. could not have won the war under any circumstances (U.S. troops honorable withdrawal) There are many reasons why the author decided to write this book, The New Legion. He felt compelled to write it for the longest time; after spending thirteen years in the Communists so-called reeducation camp. He escaped from a canal in the Mekong Delta and drifted in a rickety old boat similar to a childs toy from South Vietnam for fourteen days until he reached the nearest Pacific island, Palawan Islands, Philippines. He knew the pain that all the people who were involved suffered yet he thought that perhaps it might be best to let it become a not-so-distant memory. Now, he has finally decided to write the truth at last. It is the story of loyalty, duty, honor, and love.

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1426987439

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9781426987434

The Battle of Saigon

Short Story Collection

By: Ngo The Vinh

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The Battle of Saigon

Short Story Collection

By: Ngo The Vinh

Ngo The Vinh was an ARVN Airborne Ranger M.D. during the Vietnam War. This author, winner of the 1971 National Prize for Literature for his novel The Green Belt, ironically was also penalized for his writing, when he was summoned to the court of law because of the title story of this collection: "The Battle of Saigon". This short story records the spiritual journey of a soldier who accepts sacrifice and hardship in the struggle for freedom of South Vietnam, a soldier who at the same time longs for a better society in the future. For the contents of this work, Ngo The Vinh was accused of using the press to circulate arguments that were deemed detrimental to public order, that militated against the discipline and fighting spirit of the army, a collective of which he himself was a member. Like the title story, the other eleven works in this collection, half of them created before and the other half after 1975, present war and post-war traumatic experiences and dreams from the perspective of Vietnamese Diaspora. "The Battle of Saigon" has never ended and also will never end. The reality turns out to be that a writer possesses no power other than a sensitive heart that foresees in whole the Collective Pain. Everyone should read "The Battle of Saigon", and re-read it in order to reduce to some extent the cruelty and ruthlessness of the battle prevailing at present in Saigon, even in Hanoi, in the Central Highlands, in each of us here, overseas Vietnamese residing in the United States of America. -- Phan Nhat Nam, author of The Prisoners of War

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Xlibris Corporation

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1413463762

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9781413463767

The Love, Peace, Inside, Health, and Perspicacity

Book 5: Our Uncle's Universe

By: Ninh Vinh Loi

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The Love, Peace, Inside, Health, and Perspicacity

Book 5: Our Uncle's Universe

By: Ninh Vinh Loi

Are we sometimes too busy dealing with our day-to-day lives to know what we have gained or lost? We have built incredible civilizations, but do we know if the human race if heading in the right direction or toward self-destruction? These questions are impossible to answer unless we have the opportunity to live outside our solar system or even outside our universe. Fortunately, there is help. Ninh Vinh Loi is fortunate to have found help. He was brought to the supreme world with its supreme civilization through his books. At that time we will know if the human race is headed in the right direction or toward oblivion, and we will have the solution for all. This is the one and only change for human beings to have a change to know and understand the supreme world that was names “a heaven.” The author describes this vision in engineering terms to make these concepts concrete for the average reader.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480998087

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9781480998087

The Green Belt

A Novel

By: Thế Vinh Ngô

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The Green Belt

A Novel

By: Thế Vinh Ngô

The Green Belt" is the story of a Vietnamese newspaper reporter who journeyed into the central highlands of Vietnam during the war in the late 1960s and witnessed the traditional antagonism between tribal highlanders and lowland Vietnamese. Of interest and current significance is the narrator's account of the highlanders' side of the conflict, and his evaluation of alternative solutions that could have advanced the welfare of ethnic minorities. Socially relevant, the novel recounts a true ongoing conflict. Fighting over land and religion in Vietnam's central highlands is a human rights issue frequently making the news. Several thousand Montagnards, many of whom fought alongside the U.S. Special Forces during the Vietnam War, resettled in North Carolina in the period after 1975. This large community never stops growing as a result of the endless exodus for freedom. The compelling story of this novel, blended of fact and fiction, reveals the roots of unrest and is a unique voice advocating survival of indigenous peoples in mainland Southeast Asia.

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157197394X

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9781571973948

Lived Refuge

Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience

By: Vinh Nguyen

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Lived Refuge

Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience

By: Vinh Nguyen

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a coveted right and an elusive promise for millions. While conventionally understood as legal protection, it also transcends judicial definitions. In Lived Refuge, Vinh Nguyen reconceptualizes refuge as an ongoing affective experience and lived relation rather than a fixed category with legitimacy derived from the state. Focusing on Southeast Asian diasporas in the wake of the Vietnam War, Nguyen examines three affective experiences—gratitude, resentment, and resilience—to reveal the actively lived dimensions of refuge. Through multifaceted analyses of literary and cultural productions, Nguyen argues that the meaning of refuge emerges from how displaced people negotiate the kinds of safety and protection that are offered to (and withheld from) them. In so doing, he lays the framework for an original and compelling understanding of contemporary refugee subjectivity.

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Univ of California Press

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0520397266

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Lived Refuge

Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience

By: Vinh Nguyen

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Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience

By: Vinh Nguyen

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Before the Revolution

Before the Revolution

The History of South Vietnam - Lam

The History of South Vietnam - Lam

Theoretical Perspectives on Cultural Representations in Vietnamese Children’s Picturebooks

Theoretical Perspectives on Cultural Representations in Vietnamese Children’s Picturebooks

Full Circle: Memoir of A Vietnamese-Canadian Librarian

Full Circle: Memoir of A Vietnamese-Canadian Librarian

Inside Infinity

Inside Infinity

Mekong—The Occluding River

Mekong—The Occluding River

Without Beginning Without End

Without Beginning Without End

Vietnam War

Vietnam War

Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Battle of Saigon

The Battle of Saigon

The Love, Peace, Inside, Health, and Perspicacity

The Love, Peace, Inside, Health, and Perspicacity

The Green Belt

The Green Belt

Lived Refuge

Lived Refuge

Lived Refuge

Lived Refuge

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