...Mark Sidel Vietnam: Rethinking the State . By Martin Gainsborough . London : Zed Books , 2010 . xiv , 224 pp. $34.95 (paper). Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City . By Erik Harms . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2011 . xiv , 294 pp. $75.00 (cloth...

... to play a key role in the fate of Vietnam until the late 1980s. In retrospect, southern Vietnam's only hope for sustaining a new state was federalism, whereby both local and central interests could be protected. Unfortunately, no federalist tradition existed in Vietnam, nor apparently did any...

...: An Interreligious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam . By Anh Q. Tran . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xvi, 364 pp. ISBN: 9780190677602 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 It is a rare pleasure when scholars have access...

...Douglas Pike An International History of the Vietnam War: The Kennedy Strategy . By R. B. Smith . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1985 . xii, 429 pp. Tables, Maps, List of Abbreviations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $25 (cloth). America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam...

...Truong Buu Lam Why Vietnam? Prelude to America's Albatross . By Archimedes L. A. Patti . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1980 . xx, 612 pp. Appendixes, Photographs, Charts of Communist Organizations, Bibliography, Index. $19.50 (cloth); $10.95 (paper). Vietnam . By Hugh...

...Geoffrey C. Stewart While Michael Hunt's reader is very good at juxtaposing the views of various Vietnamese and American stakeholders, it does the least of these books to further our reinterpretation of Vietnam's conflicts. Highly laudable in its efforts to broaden the reader's understanding...

...Michitake Aso Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta . By David Biggs . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2010 . xviii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780295990675 (cloth; also available in paper). Rice Wars in Colonial Vietnam: The Great Famine...

...David Wurfel Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled. Vol. I, From Colonialism to the Vietminh. Vol. II, Vietnam at War . By Joseph Buttinger . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers , 1967 . xi, 1346 pp. Maps, Appendixes, Selected Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association...

...Hy V. Luong Dilemmas of Development: Vietnam Update 1994 . Edited by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet . Canberra : Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University , 1995 . vii, 133 pp. $A12.00 (paper). Urban Harvest...

...Edwin E. Moise Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam . By William Colby with James McCargar . Chicago : Contemporary Books , 1989 . 438 pp. $22.95. Vietnam at War: The History, 1946–1975 . Phillip B. Davidson . Novato, CA...

...Yukti Mukdawijitra Politics of Ethnic Classification in Vietnam . By Ito Masako . Kyoto : Kyoto University Press , 2013 . 252 pp. ¥4,300 (paper, ISBN 9784876984732 ). Ambiguity of Identity: The Mieu in North Vietnam . By Nguyen Van Thang . Chiang Mai : RCSD and Silkworm Books...

...Hue-Tam Ho Tai Histoire du Vietnam: Des origines à 1858. [History of Vietnam: From its origins to 1858] . By Le Thanh Khoi . Paris : Sudestasie Publishers , 1987 . 452 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 212 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES role...

...Judith Henchy Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950 . By Mark Philip Bradley . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2000 . xiv, 304 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003...

...Mark W. McLeod Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975 . By The Military History Institute of Vietnam . Translated by Merle L. Pribbenow . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2002 . xxvi, 494 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright ©...

...Robert K. Brigham The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War . By David L. Anderson . New York : Columbia University Press , 2002 . xiv , 308 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War . By Edwin E. Moïse . Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press , 2001 . 1 , 493 pp...

...Stephen M. Graw Health and Wealth in Vietnam: An Analysis of Household Living Standards . Edited by Dominique Haughton , Jonathan Haughton , Sarah Bales , Truong Thi Kim Chuyen , and Nguyen Nguyet Nga . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 1999 . xxi, 276 pp. $32.00...

...Truong Buu Lam Propriété privée et propriété collective dans l'ancien Vietnam . [Private property and collective property in ancient Vietnam] . By Ngo Kim Chung and Nguyen Duc Nghinh . Translated by George Boudarel , Lydie Prin , and Vu Can . Paris : Éditions de L'Harmattan , 1987...

...Wesley R. Fishel The Furtive War; The United States in Vietnam and Laos . By Wilfred G. Burchett . New York : International Publishers , 1963 . 224 . $3.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 630 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES find both papers additions...

...Tran-Duc-Thao Abstract Last March, the Inter-Asian Conference at New Delhi gave clear expression to the sympathy of Asia's peoples with Vietnam in its fight against colonial imperialism. And this was not just an empty gesture. The Hindu government has decided to place limits on the passage...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 VIETNAM CAMBODIA LAOS 831 Likay. Saturday review 38 (June 11, 1955), 31-32. COEDES, GEORGES. Indian influences upon Siamese art. Marg 9 (1956), 30-39. DISKUL, M. C. SUBHADRADIS. Contribution de la France a l'arche'ologie et...