...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...

...William J. Duiker The Independent Vietnamese: Vietnamese Communism Between Russia and China, 1956–1969 . By W. R. Smyser . Athens : Ohio University (Center for International Studies, Papers in International Studies, Southeast Asia No. 55) 1980 . viii, 143 pp. Bibliography. $12.75...

..., this is a worthwhile production, and readers will learn a great deal about the election from it. R. S. MILNE University of British Columbia The Fall of South Vietnam: Statements by Vietnamese Military and Civilian Leaders. By STEPHEN T. HOSMER, KONRAD KELLEN, and BRIAN M. JENKINS. New York: Crane, Russak and Co., 1980...

...Frank H. Tucker Read Vietnamese A Graded Course in Written Vietnamese . By Nguyen-Dinh-Hoa . Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle Co., Publishers , 1966 . 189 pp. Key to Exercises, Glossary. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 544 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... affords invaluable insight into the operation of the Burman mind and his learned account serves, therefore, as an effective refutation of superficial interpretations based on seemingly sensible but largely irrelevant Western premises. Ohio University JOHN F. CADY Vietnamese Legends Adapted from...

...John H. Esterline Vietnamese Public Management in Transition: South Vietnamese Public Administration 1955–1975 . By Hai B. Pho . Lanham, Md : University Press of America , 1990 . x , 199 pp. $29.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS...

... of the Philippines. Beyond enlightening the specific Philippine situation, this book is a must for any student of South and Southeast Asia who has been confronted in the field with a plurilinguistic situation. JEAN-PAUL DUMONT University of Washington Sons of the Mountains: Ethnohistory of the Vietnamese Central...

..., that the Special Economic Zone Law would only enable China to encroach on Vietnamese land in the name of economic development. Despite the postponement, protests driven by an anti-China sentiment erupted across the nation on June 10 and 11, including a violent riot in the southern province of Binh Thuan...

...Shawn McHale The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism . By Janet Alison Hoskins . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2015 . xv, 282 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 In books mentioning the Cao Đài...

...Claudine Ang Sources of Vietnamese Tradition . Edited by George E. Dutton , Jayne S. Werner , and John K. Whitmore . New York : Columbia University Press , 2012 . xl, 622 pp. $105.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014...

...Charles Keith Abstract During the Second World War, a small group of Vietnamese émigrés in Vichy France drew powerful inspiration from the ideological and material possibilities of the Nazi occupation. Their history reveals the colonial dimensions of a process of collaboration too often cast...

...William S. Turley Vietnamese Communism: A Research Bibliography . By Phan Thien Chau . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press , 1975 . xix, 359 pp. $19.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 186 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Vietnamese Communism: A Research Bibli...

... this book. It ranks among the most significant contributions to our understanding of Southeast Asian governmental policies. JOHN BADGLEY School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University The Vietnamese in Thailand: A Historical Per- spective. BY PETER A. POOLE. Ithaca: Cor- nell University...

...Huynh Kim Khanh Abstract The August Revolution of 1945 constituted the most important turning-point in recent Vietnamese history.It formally marked the end of French colonialism in Vietnam and the beginning of Vietnamese national independence. It also marked the end of the Confucianist-oriented...

...Ann Marie Leshkowich Abstract In the late 1990s, a marketplace trader in Hồ Chí Minh City reported being plagued by wandering ghosts. The postwar Vietnamese landscape teems with angry spirits who died violently without descendents to honor them, but the trader's wandering ghosts were living: male...

...Thomas R. Gottschang ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army . By Robert K. Brigham . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2006 . xiv , 178 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 In the preface to ARVN: Life and Death...

...), 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...

...Stephen Graw The Vietnamese Family in Change: The Case of the Red River Delta . By Pham van Bich . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon Press for the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies , 1999 . v , 270 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK...

...Mercedes M. Dujunco Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience . By Adelaida Reyes . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1999 . xix , 218 pp. $61.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002...

...Stein Tønnesson Occupation and Revolution: China and the Vietnamese August Revolution of 1945 . By Peter Worthing . Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley , 2001 . 202 pp. $15.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...