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The Undetected Enemy: French and American Miscalculations at Dien Bien Phu, 1953
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 864–866.
Published: 01 August 1997
...David G. Marr The Undetected Enemy: French and American Miscalculations at Dien Bien Phu, 1953 . By John R. Nordell Jr. College Station : Texas A & M University Press , 1995 . xxviii, 205 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 864...
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The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 503–505.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Franck Michelin The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam . By Christopher Goscha . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2022 . 568 pp. ISBN: 9780691180168 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Christopher Goscha is one of the top...
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Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 907–909.
Published: 01 August 1995
...James I. Matray Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot . By Howard R. Simpson . Washington, D.C. : Brassey's Inc. , 1994 . xxv, 193 pp. $24.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 907 markers of their ethnic marginality...
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Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 538–540.
Published: 01 May 2020
...James A. Anderson Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam . By Christian C. Lentz . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 2019 . 352 pp. ISBN: 9780300233957 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Contested...
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Decision Against War: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 926–927.
Published: 01 November 1989
...John Prados Decision Against War: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954 . By Melanie Billings-Yun . New York : Columbia University Press , 1988 . xvi, 199 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 926 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES its weaknesses...
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Dien Bien Phu and the Crisis of Franco-American Relations, 1954–1955
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (3): 704–706.
Published: 01 August 1990
... communist insurgency in Asia. DAVID ROSENBERG Middlebury College Dim Bien Phu and the Crisis of Franco-American Relations, 1954-1955. Edited by L A W R E N C E S. K A P L A N , D E N I S E A R T A U D , and M A R K R. R U B I N . Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1990. 286 pp. $40.00. This collection...
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Pagodas and Prophets: Contesting Sacred Space and Power among Buddhist Karen in Karen State
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1083–1105.
Published: 01 November 2011
... on the other; and third, to raise an alternative understanding to predominantly state-centered perspectives on Theravada Buddhism. Field-based observations on the young charismatic Phu Taki and his community, as well as on the practice of pagoda worship called Duwae that has hitherto been undocumented...
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Pride, Not Prejudice: National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 515–517.
Published: 01 May 2024
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A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 615–617.
Published: 01 August 2006
... in the library of any institution remotely concerned with Asian history. PETER JACKSON Keele University, U.K. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phu¨ntso Wangye. By MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN, DAWEI SHERAP, and WILLIAM R. SIEBENSCHUH. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press...
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Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 233–235.
Published: 01 February 2020
... an innovative approach to capture the everyday life of the creation of these new spaces. Harms compares two specific sites outside the immediate vicinity of Ho Chi Minh City's central core: Phù My Húng and Thú Thiêm. The former is a massive mixed-use development on the southern periphery of Ho Chi Minh City...
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Ariya and the Golden Book: A Millenarian Buddhist Sect Among the Karen
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 297–328.
Published: 01 February 1968
...], Sunday, 30 Jan., 1955, p. 8). 104 Carpenter, pp. 11, 14. 105 The title is a loanblend of the Karen phu “grandfather” and Mon caik , which Shorto (1962, P. 93f.) glosses for Mon as “sacred being or thing, Buddha, pagoda, image of Buddha.” The latter also appears in the Karen title, Mu...
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Millennialism, Theravāda Buddhism, and Thai Society
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 283–302.
Published: 01 February 1977
.... 98. Prince Damrong—in a letter to Prince Watthanā, High Commīssioner of Monthon Ud n (NA-B, V,M.2.18/3, 28 Apr 1902)—was of the opinion that those who spread the message about the coming of the phū mī bun were followers of Ong Kāēo, a claimant to the status of phū mī bun who lived in French Laos...
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Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, d'un royaume l'autre: Religion et révolution au Sud Viêt Nam (1935–1955)
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 February 2024
... 1950s can be fruitfully compared (355). Bourdeaux provides an excellent analysis of Hòa Hảo thought and publications and how the idea of a new form of lay Buddhism (without priests and temples) was developed by Huynh Phu So and others (chapter 5). He draws on a wealth of material that has...
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Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music , vol. 3
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 924–926.
Published: 01 November 1989
... handbook in the hands of hundreds of gamelan devotees. ERNST HEINS University of Amsterdam Decision Against War: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954. By MELANIE BILLINGS-YUN. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xvi, 199 pp. $25.00. Melanie Billings-Yun writes about an early milestone on the American...
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The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (4): 920–922.
Published: 01 August 1986
... in Vietnam. Although the main focus of the revolutionary wave of 1930 was the central province of Nghe Tinh, the intensity of the crisis of the colonial order led also to the establishment of important subsidiary centers of insurrection in the south. These included the rubber plantation of Phu Rieng, part...
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Clearing, “Wasting,” and Regreening: An Environmental History of Bare Hills in Central Vietnam
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1037–1058.
Published: 01 November 2018
... wasteland” ( hoang nhàn, thổ phụ ). This article follows a longer history of this hilly “wasteland” not only to challenge a presentist framing of environmental decline but also to recognize the historic roles that people played in producing these spaces, even “wasting” them via fire and livestock...
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Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 613–615.
Published: 01 August 2006
.... It should be guaranteed a place in the library of any institution remotely concerned with Asian history. PETER JACKSON Keele University, U.K. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phu¨ntso Wangye. By MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN, DAWEI SHERAP, and WILLIAM R. SIEBENSCHUH. Berkeley and Los...
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A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 783–784.
Published: 01 November 2022
... commoners, but awkwardly including aristocrats as well, the bureaucracy became the target audience of a wave of manners manuals that asserted that anyone could be a phu di— a “gentleperson”—regardless of wealth and social rank. Drawing on the concept of the “bourgeois Buddhist” as well as Victorian sources...
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The Vietnam People's Army Under Doi Moi
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 909–910.
Published: 01 August 1995
... presence of many U.S. advisors at Dien Bien Phu, but fails to elaborate. Declining morale within the "battle-weary" (p. 122) Vietminh and Giap's use of loudspeakers "to broadcast propaganda messages targeted at specific units and ethnic groups" (p. 146) also escape probing analysis. According to Simpson...
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The Ceramics of South-East Asia: Their Dating and Identification
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 927–928.
Published: 01 November 1989
... to twelve-hour alert is not the same as a capacity to intervene at Dien Bien Phu in twelve hours; U.S. fighterbombers based in the Philippines lacked the range to bomb anything in northern Indochina, much less Dien Bien Phu. Although it is true that Admiral Robert B. Carney was not an airman, he had gone...
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