Film Screening Journey from the Fall opened to critical acclaim, and won numerous awards including the Best Director from the Asian Festival of first Film, the Grand Jury Prize at the Amazonas International Film Festival, the Best Feature Film at the Anchorage International Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, among many others. The … [Read more...]
“Reporting Asia: Vietnam”
Featuring Bill Hayton, Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House and Nguyen Phuong Linh, Southeast Asia Political Analyst, former Financial Times and Reuters' Vietnam Correspondent Moderated by Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Department of History About the Reporting Asia … [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...]
Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Claire E. Edington (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. To read the author Q&A, please click here. Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with … [Read more...]
Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Wen-Qing Ngoei (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing … [Read more...]
