[Publication] Journal of Vietnamese Studies

University of California Press Journals + Digital Publishing is proud to announce the availability of Journal of Vietnamese Studies (JVS), Volume 1,Issue 1&2. The world’s only English-language publication devoted exclusively to the history, politics, and culture of Vietnam can be subscribed to via the UC Press website.

A 500+ page double issue containing 14 feature-length articles and interviews, the debut issue of JVS covers a broad range of contemporary scholarship on Vietnam. For a limited time, the following article is available for free online:

Liên-Hang T. Nguyen’s The War Politburo: North Vietnam’s Diplomatic and Political Road to the Têt Offensive can be accessed here:
caliber.ucpress.net/doi/pdfplus/10.1525/vs.2006.1.1-2.4

For more information about Journal of Vietnamese Studies, please visit ucpressjournals.com

To review the table of contents for the first issue of JVS please visit: caliber.ucpress.net/toc/vs/1/1-2

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TOC: Volume 1 (numbers 1-2)

Journal of Vietnamese Studies Feb 2006, Vol. 1, No. 1-2: C1-C4.

Table of Contents

Editors’ Note Peter Zinoman , Mariam Beevi Lam

The War Politburo: North Vietnam’s Diplomatic and Political Road to the Têt Offensive, by Liên-Hang T. Nguyen

Courting Diplomatic Disaster? The Difficult Integration of Vietnam into the Internationalist Communist Movement (1945-1950) by Christopher E. Goscha

Linguistic Research on the Origins of the Vietnamese Language: An Overview by Mark Alves

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Accessibility to Healthcare, Consumption of Medicines, and Medical Pluralism in French Vietnam, 1905-1945 by Laurence Monnais and Noémi Tousignant

South Vietnamese Identity, American Intervention, and the Newspaper Chính Luan [Political Discussion], 1965-1969 by Nu-Anh Tran

« Swiddens, Resettlements, Sedentarizations, and Villages »: State Formation among the Central Highlanders of Vietnam under the First Republic, 1955-1961 by Stan B-H Tan

Look Again: Three Seasons Refocuses American Sights of Vietnam by Michele Janette

Woman, Buddhist, Entrepreneur: Gender, Moral Values, and Class Anxiety in Late Socialist Vietnam by Ann Marie Leshkowich

« Confucianism » in Vietnam: A State of the Field Essay by Liam C. Kelley

Structure, Practice, and History: Contemporary Anthropological Research on Vietnam by Hy V. Luong

Toward a Critical Refugee Study: The Vietnamese Refugee Subject in US Scholarship Scholarship by Yên Lê Espiritu

Robert Buzzanco’s « Fear and (Self) Loathing in Lubbock » by K. W. Taylor

War Stories: The Taylor-Buzzanco Debate and How We Think about the Vietnam War by Edward Miller

Interview: Nguyên Huy Thiêp
BOOK REVIEWS

The Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

Vietnamese Voices: Gender and Cultural Identity in the Vietnamese Francophone Novel by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen

America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 by Seth Jacobs

Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam by Dara O’Rourke

Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory by Christoph Giebel

Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship by Liam Kelley

Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam by Lisa Drummond and Helle Rydstrøm