By Thu Anh Le On the 50th anniversary of the publication of the last will and testament of Hồ Chí Minh (1969 - 2019), Columbia University and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University held a colloquium on his life, career and legacy. Cosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Department of History, and the Department of East … [Read more...]
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City
Haydon Cherry (Yale University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals—a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a poor Frenchman—and how … [Read more...]
Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Olga Dror (Cambridge University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences of growing up during the Vietnamese War. The book gives a unique perspective on the conflict through the prism of adult-youth relations. By studying these relations, … [Read more...]
