{"id":12814,"date":"2023-02-01T04:52:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usvietnamcenter.uoregon.edu\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2023-04-24T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:18:03","slug":"republican-vietnam-1963-1975-war-society-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usvietnamcenter.uoregon.edu\/republican-vietnam-1963-1975-war-society-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Vietnam, 1963-1975: War, Society, Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Republican Vietnam, 1963-1975: War, Society, Diaspora<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Trinh Luu & Tuong Vu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forthcoming in Fall 2023, Columbia University\u2019s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and University of Hawaii Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican Vietnam<\/em> is the first collection of scholarly essays on the Second Republic of Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War nearly half a century ago. The volume builds on what Peter Zinoman calls the \u201crepublican moment in the study of modern Vietnam,\u201d and re-examines the history of modern Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and the Vietnamese diaspora from the perspective of republican ideas and politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Vietnam was America\u2019s ally but has long been neglected in the scholarship because the Vietnam War is mistakenly viewed as primarily a conflict between US imperialism and Vietnamese patriotism. Such a view marginalizes the majority of South Vietnamese who strived not only to survive but also to build a democratic country and live meaningful lives in a war not of their own choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The twelve essays making up this volume together show how war, in tandem with external intervention, shaped South Vietnam\u2019s society, economy, culture, and the life of every individual and family. Like all other societies, South Vietnam\u2019s was complex but has appeared in popular media and American scholarship as a hopelessly dependent nation, full of thieves and prostitutes and led by corrupt dictators beholden to US interests. In contrast to such negative stereotypes, this volume situates South Vietnamese front and center as agents of their own histories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We seek to provide a fuller picture of an evolving South Vietnamese society in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how politicians, students, educators, publishers, journalists, musicians, religious leaders, businessmen, and ordinary people all had a hand in shaping a local republican tradition with enlightened religions, a vibrant civil society, an outspoken press, an entrepreneurial economy, and a globalized intellectual and artistic culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This republican era, though short lived, has a resilient spirit which the Vietnamese refugees consciously cultivated wherever they settled. The trove of vernacular music and print media, not to mention the many associations the Vietnamese diasporas created, exemplify the republican values that once energized South Vietnamese society. Vietnamese American Studies scholars, failing to engage with area studies research or Vietnamese-language sources, have long ignored this important link. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By featuring essays from Vietnamese and Vietnamese Diasporic Studies, this volume takes the important step of bridging the two fields, laying the groundwork for cross-disciplinary projects in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information about Editors: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trinh Luu is a research fellow at the University of Oregon’s US-Vietnam Research Center. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research spans much of 20th century Vietnam and the postwar diaspora in the United States and France. Her book manuscript, \u201cAmong the Divinities: Law, Literature, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,\u201d examines literary production and legal reform during Renovation (\u0110\u1ed5i M\u1edbi).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuong Vu is professor and head of the Department of Political Science, University of Oregon. His research and teaching concern the comparative politics of state formation, development, nationalism, and revolutions, with a particular focus on East Asia. Vu is the author and co-editor of several books on Southeast Asian politics, the Cold War in Asia, the Republic of Vietnam (1955-1975), Vietnamese republicanism, contemporary Vietnamese politics and economy, and the Vietnamese American community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter<\/strong><\/td>Title of chapter and authors<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Introduction<\/td>War, the Second Republic, and the Diaspora<\/em> by Trinh Luu and Tuong Vu<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>\u201cEverything Depends on Us Alone\u201d: President Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u\u2019s Vietnamization Strategy<\/em> by David L. Prentice<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>\u201cAll the Communists Must Leave\u201d: The Origin, Evolution, and Failure of Saigon\u2019s Peace Demands, 1963-1973<\/em> by George J. Veith<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>War, Nation-Building, and the Role of the Press in the Second Republic<\/em> by Thanh Hoang and Tuong Vu <\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Reconceptualizing Foreign Aid: The United States\u2019 Commercial Import Program for the Republic of Vietnam (1954-1975)<\/em> by Ph\u1ea1m Th\u1ecb H\u1ed3ng H\u00e0<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Building Higher Education during War: South Vienam\u2019s Public Universities in the 1970s<\/em> by Tr\u01b0\u01a1ng Th\u00f9y Dung<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Buddhist Social Work in the Vietnam War: Th\u00edch Nh\u1ea5t H\u1ea1nh and the School of Youth for Social Service<\/em> by <\/strong>Adrienne Minh-Ch\u00e2u L\u00ea<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Political Philology and Academic Freedom: A Defense of Th\u00edch Minh Ch\u00e2u<\/em> by Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Songs of Sympathy in Time of War: Commercial Music in the Republic of Vietnam<\/em> by Jason Gibbs<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>Pray the Rosary and Do Apostolic Work: The Modern Vietnamese Catholic Associational Culture<\/em> by Tuan Hoang<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>Rhizomatic Transnationalism: Nh\u1ea1c V\u00e0ng and the Legacy of Republicanism in Overseas Vietnamese Communities<\/em> by Vinh Phu Pham<\/td><\/tr>
11<\/td>Ethnic Buddhism and Women in Hoa Pham\u2019s Lady of the Realm and Chi Vu\u2019s Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale<\/em> by Ph\u1ea1m V\u0169 Lan Anh<\/td><\/tr>
12<\/td>Vietism: Human Rights, Carl Jung, and the New Vietnamese<\/em> by Trinh M. Luu<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edited by Trinh Luu & Tuong Vu
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