...Diem-My T. Bui This article examines how figurations of Vietnamese women in the popular US imagination played significant roles in explaining, justifying, criticizing, or creating sympathy for US involvement in the war in Viet Nam. Bui looks to the clashes between Madame Nhu's efforts to manage her...

...Viet Thanh Nguyen Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Victimized Body Viet Thanh Nguyen Between patriarchy and imperialism, subject-constitution and object-formation, the figure...

...Viet Le In contemporary Viet Nam, China, and Korea (among other Asian countries), popular cultural production has opened up new modes of transnational subjectivity, questioning the boundaries of community, identity, and identification. How are national and consumer desires linked? Boy bands...

...Viet Thanh Nguyen This article considers the challenges facing Southeast Asian American studies and the interventions the nascent field can make, particularly into Asian American studies, Southeast Asian studies, and American studies. Nguyen argues for dislodging the implicit identity politics...

...Julie Thi Underhill At twenty-two, Julie Thi Underhill met her dying grandmother Thị Oai and began a portrait series in her mother's home village. Seven years later, she returned with her family to Phước Lập, a Hindu Chăm village in south central Viet Nam, where she photographed and filmed her...

...Long Bui Using the television program Vietnam Idol as a case study, the author demonstrates that even though shows like this aim to bring Viet Nam into the fold of global culture, it reconfigures dominant notions of “culture” and reinforces certain mappings of power. At the very moment it brings...

... as a literature of escape, featuring the figure of the refugee and a perilous journey toward freedom.2 In The Viet Nam War/The Ameri- can War, Renny Christopher considers that “Vietnamese exile narratives” positions 21:1  doi 10.1215/10679847-1894317­...

... studies, critical cultural studies, ethnic studies, popular culture, and lm. Long Bui is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Riverside. Anh Thang Dao was born in Viet Nam and grew up in Poland and Germany. She received...

... models in order to develop the language for articulating a distinctly “Viet- namese civilization.” For example, with the rise of the Nguyễn Dynasty in the nineteenth century, the capital city they built at Huế replicated the “Chinese model...

... to resonate for decades to come. As an epistemic formation, Southeast Asia currently encompasses over ten different nation- states, including Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singa- pore, Thailand, Burma/Myanmar, the Philippines, Brunei...

... .” Socialist Republic of Vietnam, November 13 . thuvienphapluat.vn/van-ban/quyen-dan-su/Luat-quoc-tich-Viet-Nam-2008-24-2008-QH12-82204.aspx . National Immigration Agency . 2021 . “ Statistical Data: Number of Foreign Spouses by Nationality from 1987 to September 2019 .” Ministry of the Interior...

... In 1992, as the influence of Thiep’s work expanded among the overseas-viet- namese community in the United States, historian Hue Tam Ho Tai, in a positions 22 Q 1994 by Duke University Press. Zinomon I Declassifying Nguyen Huy Thiep...

..., lies in the pleasure of being observed in the act of enjoying exchange value itself. In that sense, such acts of national or racial revenge — to employ the “vocabulary of South Viet- namese youth” — imply what Benjamin described as a “racial...

... on the subject of women. His basic message was that women should try to be “mothers to the nation.”26 He recommended that “if girls were teased with the question, ‘Do you have a husband yet?’ they should reply ‘Yes, his surname is Viet...

... Viet- namese, telling me with some pride how not long ago he had had a camera crew from NHK television in his tiny shop. Pulling a magazine out of his desk drawer, he bemusedly translated the text on the cover into Vietnamese...

.../10679847-2009-019 Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press positions 17:3  Winter 2009 656 (reform) was put in place in 1986, South Korea’s economic entry into Viet- nam also became an opportunity...

... of neoliberalism and its propensity to dominate, penetrate, and transform socialist societies.10 As in other “late socialist” countries, alternatives to market logics continue to endure in Viet- nam as the state envisions its recombinant economy as rmly...

... Republic of China. These broad similarities are further reinforced by more than three millennia of political, economic, and cultural interactions that help ensure that of cial de nitions of what it means to be properly “Viet- namese” continue...

... society had been restructured to permit equal collective access to the means of production. In the wake of market- oriented economic reforms – present), Viet- namese of cials have recast family problems as individual moral concerns...

... rich, and the threat of foreign “contamination.”6 This campaign turned on a long- standing representation of “the People as One,” a gure emerging from the war against the French, with the Viet- namese Communist Party call for, as Christophe...