...George Dutton Abstract I think it is fair to say that Keith Taylor's new history of the Vietnamese peoples, A History of the Vietnamese , is long awaited in at least two senses. Those who were aware that Professor Taylor was working on this project were eager to see how a senior scholar would...

.... A few works have been acquired since 1939, especially the two copies of the Toan Thu (X-85, X-87). NOTE A NOTE ON THE LOCATION OF SOURCE MATERIALS FOR EARLY VIETNAMESE HISTORY JOHN K. WHITMORE IN a previous article for the Journal [xxix/2 (February 1970) 373-94] I discussed the nature of the source...

... Vietnamese history. 3 The most detailed published account of Truong Vinh Ky's life is by Bouchot J. , Pétrus J.-B. Truong-Vinh-Ky 1837–1898 ( Saigon , 1927 ) . A short Vietnamese biography is provided by Thu Khong Xuan , Truong Vinh Ky 1837–1898 ( Saigon , 1958...

...Laurel Kendall Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Liễu Hạnh in Vietnamese History . By Olga Dror . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2007 . xi , 260 pp. $52.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In the spring of 2001...

...Nguyen The Anh Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution: Popular Movements in Vietnamese History . By Truong Buu Lam with the collaboration of Mai Van Lam. Singapore : Institute of Southern Asian Studies , 1984 . (Occasional Paper, no. 75.) 54 pp. Endnotes. $7.50 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Alexander Woodside History of Vietnamese Communism, 1925–1976 . By Douglas Pike . Stanford : Stanford University, Hoover Institution Press , 1978 . xiv, 181 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST...

... of the conflict to various members of Vietnamese society not traditionally considered in most histories of Vietnam's wars. David Hunt uses the accounts of various anonymous interview subjects that recur throughout his narrative—such as “the Ethnographer,” “the Midwife,” “the Commander,” “the Instigator...

...David Hunt Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory . By Christoph Giebel . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2004 . xxii , 255 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V...

... regional narratives contextualized by the nation. In this essay, I am interested in how the archive can be read to disperse the coherencies of Vietnamese histories as epistemological or hermeneutical categories, whether they be conceived as national histories or as regional histories. Rather than simply...

...), has shaped modern Vietnamese history. For the 1950s in particular, scholars of Vietnam have developed a view in which nationalistic communists in the north consolidate their grip on power, undergoing crises but emerging stronger. This view has obvious merit. Nonetheless, it can leave the observer...

... and to analyze the uses to which this material may be put for the study of Vietnamese history. A note follows in the May 1970 issue of the JAS describing the major modern collections of these documents and giving the locations of each work mentioned in the article. Characters and Vietnamese romanization...

... to the outline of Vietnamese history and to the overt activities of Vietnamese politics as seen by the West. Mr. Buttinger has ably produced a text which combines a good summary of the Western works published over the past two decades, a series of relevant questions concerning the nature of Vietnamese politics...

... issues in Vietnamese history are among the problems that have not been thoroughly studied. Historical documents regarding gender at the village and national levels did not survive well during Vietnam's many intermittent wars from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. On the other hand, early Vietnamese...

... capital city. What is perhaps better news still is that these books largely complement one another. Each takes a different approach to portraying Hanoi and its place within Vietnamese history. Logan's biography of Hanoi features a distinct focus on the physical cityscape of the Vietnamese capital, tracing...

... organized extended essay on Vietnamese history from the linguistic point of view. As such it is a tertiary work based mainly on others' research. Since materials are most readily available for the French period (i860 1940), much of the book (150 pages) deals with the topic described in the title...

... is a history of the complex dynamics between the Chinese and Vietnamese imperial states, the border populations and their local political leaders and, later in the story, the French colonial powers. It is a story of their shifting relationships, alliances, accommodations, and occasionally violent conflicts...

... to the "people of Vietnam," to whom his book is dedicated. To compensate for his inability to read Vietnamese texts, Hodgkin has read translated materials with great industry. He has also been inspired by the many interviews that he held in 1974 with specialists at the Hanoi institutes of history, economics...

... of Vietnamese history and to the overt activities of Vietnamese politics as seen by the West. Mr. Buttinger has ably produced a text which combines a good summary of the Western works published over the past two decades, a series of relevant questions concerning the nature of Vietnamese politics, and an overall...

.... Woodside states, "The question of the historical nature of the Chinese influence in recent Vietnamese history is, I think, a crucial one" (p. 2). He proceeds to examine the question in terms of the government structure and activities in the newly reunited Vietnamese state of the first half...

... for the Vietnamese ruling class. Because of these missing elements, the monograph, whatever its merits, leaves much to be desired. NGUYEN THE ANH Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution: Popular Movements in Vietnamese History. By TRUONG BUU LAM with the collaboration...