Journal of Vietnamese Studies
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The Journal of Vietnamese Studies publishes original social science and humanities research on Vietnamese history, politics, culture, and society. A @ucpress.bsky.social journal.
Gerard will be remembered as an inspirational teacher, a wonderful scholar and a true friend to many people in Vietnamese Studies and beyond.
Photo: Christopher Goscha (Université du Québec à Montréal), Charles Keith (Michigan State U), and Gerard Sasges.
Photo: Christopher Goscha (Université du Québec à Montréal), Charles Keith (Michigan State U), and Gerard Sasges.
August 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Gerard will be remembered as an inspirational teacher, a wonderful scholar and a true friend to many people in Vietnamese Studies and beyond.
Photo: Christopher Goscha (Université du Québec à Montréal), Charles Keith (Michigan State U), and Gerard Sasges.
Photo: Christopher Goscha (Université du Québec à Montréal), Charles Keith (Michigan State U), and Gerard Sasges.
As the long-term Vietnam Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program based in Hanoi (2002-2007 and again from 2008-2011), Gerard provided an academically rigorous and culturally immersive Vietnamese experience to scores of American undergraduate students.
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August 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
As the long-term Vietnam Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program based in Hanoi (2002-2007 and again from 2008-2011), Gerard provided an academically rigorous and culturally immersive Vietnamese experience to scores of American undergraduate students.
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Gerard also completed a series of innovative shorter studies on modern Vietnamese economic history, a hugely important but long-neglected subtopic (e.g. “Scaling the Commanding Heights: The Colonial Conglomerates and the Changing Political Economy of French Indochina,” Modern Asian Studies 45.5).
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August 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Gerard also completed a series of innovative shorter studies on modern Vietnamese economic history, a hugely important but long-neglected subtopic (e.g. “Scaling the Commanding Heights: The Colonial Conglomerates and the Changing Political Economy of French Indochina,” Modern Asian Studies 45.5).
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He also supervised and edited a groundbreaking collection of oral histories about the nature of work in Vietnam: It’s a Living: Work and Life in Vietnam Today (NUS Press: 2013).
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August 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
He also supervised and edited a groundbreaking collection of oral histories about the nature of work in Vietnam: It’s a Living: Work and Life in Vietnam Today (NUS Press: 2013).
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...on the field of Vietnamese history through his superb first monograph: Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina (University of Hawaii Press: 2017).
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August 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
...on the field of Vietnamese history through his superb first monograph: Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina (University of Hawaii Press: 2017).
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And in 2006—at the journal’s founding—JVS (vol. 1, no. 1-2) also featured a debate between Keith Taylor and Robert Buzzacano about the war.
See Edward Miller’s “War Stories: The Taylor-Buzzanco Debate and How We Think about the Vietnam War.”
See Edward Miller’s “War Stories: The Taylor-Buzzanco Debate and How We Think about the Vietnam War.”
April 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
And in 2006—at the journal’s founding—JVS (vol. 1, no. 1-2) also featured a debate between Keith Taylor and Robert Buzzacano about the war.
See Edward Miller’s “War Stories: The Taylor-Buzzanco Debate and How We Think about the Vietnam War.”
See Edward Miller’s “War Stories: The Taylor-Buzzanco Debate and How We Think about the Vietnam War.”
“The Role of Weapons in the Second Indochina War: Republic of Vietnam Perspectives and Perceptions” by Martin Loicano (2013, vol. 8, no. 2).
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“The Role of Weapons in the Second Indochina War: Republic of Vietnam Perspectives and Perceptions” by Martin Loicano (2013, vol. 8, no. 2).
Historian Sean Fear’s essay “The Ambiguous Legacy of Ngô Đình Diệm in South Vietnam’s Second Republic (1967–1975” (2016, vol. 11, no. 1).
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Historian Sean Fear’s essay “The Ambiguous Legacy of Ngô Đình Diệm in South Vietnam’s Second Republic (1967–1975” (2016, vol. 11, no. 1).
JVS has also published many stand-alone research articles on the conflict. They include:
Historian Nu-Anh Tran’s “Will the Real Caravelle Manifesto Please Stand Up?: A Critique and a New Translation“ (2023, vol. 18, no. 3).
Historian Nu-Anh Tran’s “Will the Real Caravelle Manifesto Please Stand Up?: A Critique and a New Translation“ (2023, vol. 18, no. 3).
April 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
JVS has also published many stand-alone research articles on the conflict. They include:
Historian Nu-Anh Tran’s “Will the Real Caravelle Manifesto Please Stand Up?: A Critique and a New Translation“ (2023, vol. 18, no. 3).
Historian Nu-Anh Tran’s “Will the Real Caravelle Manifesto Please Stand Up?: A Critique and a New Translation“ (2023, vol. 18, no. 3).
JVS has also published pioneering research on the conflict in our pages over the past two decades.
In 2009, JVS published a special issue on the Vietnam War (vol. 4, no. 3).
In 2009, JVS published a special issue on the Vietnam War (vol. 4, no. 3).
April 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
JVS has also published pioneering research on the conflict in our pages over the past two decades.
In 2009, JVS published a special issue on the Vietnam War (vol. 4, no. 3).
In 2009, JVS published a special issue on the Vietnam War (vol. 4, no. 3).
The issue includes thirteen new translations of works by Vietnamese authors of all political backgrounds responding to the war and its end. It also includes a photo essay by photographer Stephen Black and his images taken from multiple regions of Vietnam in 1978.
April 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The issue includes thirteen new translations of works by Vietnamese authors of all political backgrounds responding to the war and its end. It also includes a photo essay by photographer Stephen Black and his images taken from multiple regions of Vietnam in 1978.
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April 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The issue also features original reviews of five new books.
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April 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The issue also features original reviews of five new books.
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In the Multimedia Reviews section, a photo essay by educator and photographer Stephen Black provides a glimpse into everyday life in postwar Vietnam circa 1978. Seen through the lens of a Western visitor, the images provide unique insight into an understudied period.
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April 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In the Multimedia Reviews section, a photo essay by educator and photographer Stephen Black provides a glimpse into everyday life in postwar Vietnam circa 1978. Seen through the lens of a Western visitor, the images provide unique insight into an understudied period.
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Although each translated work offers a unique perspective, as a collective they touch on shared themes of reunification in and after 1975—troubled reunion and separation, migration, coerced reeducation, and artistic and cultural reform.
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April 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Although each translated work offers a unique perspective, as a collective they touch on shared themes of reunification in and after 1975—troubled reunion and separation, migration, coerced reeducation, and artistic and cultural reform.
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JVS gratefully acknowledges the support of USIP for the translations in this issue. We also thank the thirteen translators who helped produce them, as well as the original copyright holders who generously allowed us to present their works in this form.
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April 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
JVS gratefully acknowledges the support of USIP for the translations in this issue. We also thank the thirteen translators who helped produce them, as well as the original copyright holders who generously allowed us to present their works in this form.
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In a preface, Andrew Wells-Dang—Senior Expert on SEA at the US Institute of Peace—writes “This special issue is a call to deepen our understanding and commitment to the persistent tasks of acknowledging the past, strengthening human relationships, and envisioning the future.”
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April 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In a preface, Andrew Wells-Dang—Senior Expert on SEA at the US Institute of Peace—writes “This special issue is a call to deepen our understanding and commitment to the persistent tasks of acknowledging the past, strengthening human relationships, and envisioning the future.”
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“Together, these translations depict the coming of peace as an experience that was simultaneously collective and partisan.”
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April 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“Together, these translations depict the coming of peace as an experience that was simultaneously collective and partisan.”
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“At the same time, the pieces emphasize shared sentiments and experiences, such as the yearning for peace and reunion, the pain of separation from loved ones, the ache of homesickness and dislocation, and the difficulty of overcoming differences. (...)”
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April 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“At the same time, the pieces emphasize shared sentiments and experiences, such as the yearning for peace and reunion, the pain of separation from loved ones, the ache of homesickness and dislocation, and the difficulty of overcoming differences. (...)”
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In their Introduction, guest editors Luu and Tran write
“The accounts reflect a wide range of political perspectives, from ardent anti-communism to committed communism, and highlight the enduring partisan differences that divided many Vietnamese long after the war. (…)”
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“The accounts reflect a wide range of political perspectives, from ardent anti-communism to committed communism, and highlight the enduring partisan differences that divided many Vietnamese long after the war. (…)”
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April 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In their Introduction, guest editors Luu and Tran write
“The accounts reflect a wide range of political perspectives, from ardent anti-communism to committed communism, and highlight the enduring partisan differences that divided many Vietnamese long after the war. (…)”
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“The accounts reflect a wide range of political perspectives, from ardent anti-communism to committed communism, and highlight the enduring partisan differences that divided many Vietnamese long after the war. (…)”
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This special issue collects thirteen original translations of works on the Vietnam War’s end and its aftermath. Songs, poems, memoirs, and fiction give voice to Vietnamese on all sides – winners and losers; soldiers and civilians; those who stayed and those who left.
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April 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This special issue collects thirteen original translations of works on the Vietnam War’s end and its aftermath. Songs, poems, memoirs, and fiction give voice to Vietnamese on all sides – winners and losers; soldiers and civilians; those who stayed and those who left.
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