Selected Resources for the Study of Việt Nam

General Web Sites

Southeast Asia Section Page

http://www.lib.washington.edu/southeastasia/

Vietnam Studies Page

http://www.lib.washington.edu/southeastasia/vsg/

Go to Teaching and Reference.

Vietnam Virtual Library at Australian National University

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-Vietnam.html

General Social and Economic Conditions

UNDP: http://www.undp.org.vn/undp/lib/index.htm

Includes a number of online reports, Human Development Report, reports on gender, poverty, health etc and Directory of State Organizations: http://www.undp.org.vn/undp/docs/1999/dir99/index.htm Dates from 1999. Adresses are good

More up to date is The British Council’s Vietnam Cultural Profile: http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/Viet_Nam/Units/2356.html Which includes updated links to government cultural departments.

Official Sites

Vietnamese Communist Party

http://www.cpv.org.vn/index_e.html

News Sources In English

Nhan Dan

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/

Vietnam New Agency

http://www.vnanet.vn/default.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2

Vietnam Investment Review

http://www.vir.com.vn/Client/VIR/Default.asp

Thanh Nien Newspaper in English

http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/?catid=1

Voice of Vietnam

http://www.vtc.com.vn/user/control/video?type=PT

For Vietnam television and news sites.

Photographic and Film Resources

Francoise Sully Collection

http://dl.umb.edu/sullyhome.html

Requiem : Tim Page Photo Collection

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req1.htm

Texas Tech Vietnam Center

http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcenter/

Vietnam Online (War site)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/

University of Wisconsin South and Southeast Asia Video Archive

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SEAvideo/

Other Wars Related Resources

Cold War Files: Interpreting History Through Documents. Woodrow Wilson Center, Cold War International History Project.

http://www.coldwarfiles.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.flash

Vietnamese Perspectives on the War in Vietnam. Online Bibliography

http://www.yale.edu/seas/bibliography/

Refugee Experience

UC Irvine Online Exhibit

http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/seaexhibit/index.html

George Dutton’s Tay Son Rebellion Site

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/ealc/faculty/dutton/TSBios.html

Fiction

Bibliography of Vietnamese Fiction

Full Listing

Works in Translation

Book Resources : Bibliographies and Reference Sources

Duiker, William J., 1932-

Historical dictionary of Vietnam / by William J. Duiker

Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1989

Giacometti, Jean-Dominique

Vietnam historical statistics bibliography : printed sources and institutional context of the statistics in Vietnam before 1954 / Jean-Dominique Giacometti

[Tokyo?] : Institute of Comparative Economic Statistics, Hosei University, [2001]

Marr, David G

Vietnam / David G. Marr, compiler ; with the assistance of Kristine Alilunas-Rodgers

Oxford, Eng. ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1992

Moise, Edwin E., 1946-

Vietnam War bibliography / Edwin E. Moise

Clemson : Clemson University, 1990

Resources for teaching the Vietnam War : an annotated guide / edited by Anthony O. Edmonds

Pittsburgh, Penn. : Center for Social Studies Education, c1992

Singleton, Carl

Vietnam studies : an annotated bibliography / Carl Singleton

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press ; Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 1997

General Book Resources on Society and Culture (This section reflects suggestions from members of the Vietnam Studies ListServ in response to call for resources on culture)

Neil Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (University of California Press, Berkeley 1995). 

Helle Rydstrom: Embodying Morality. Growing up in Northern Vietnam (University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2003).

Pham Van Bich, The Vietnamese Family in Change. The Case of the Red River Delta. (Curzon in cooperation with The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1999).

Tine Gammeltoft, Women's Bodies, Women's Worries: Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Commune. Curzon 1999.

Lisa Drummond and Helle Rydstrom: Gender practices in contemporary Vietnam (Singapore University Press/ NIAS Press, Singapore/Copenhagen 2004).

Shaun Malarney, Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam (University of Hawaii Press, 2002).

McLeod, Mark W

Culture and customs of Vietnam / Mark W. McLeod and Nguyen Thi Dieu

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001

Essays into Vietnamese pasts / K.W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore, editors

Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1995

Huu Ngoc

Sketches for a portrait of Vietnamese culture / Huu Ngoc

Hà Nôi : Thê gioi, 1995

Mai Elliot. The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family.  Oxford University Press.  1999.

Nguyen Ngoc Huy.  The Confucian Incursion into Vietnam, in Confucianism and the Family edited by Walter H. Slote and George A De Vos.  State University of New York Press.  1998. 

Walter H. Slote.  Destiny and Determination: Psychocultural reinforcement in Vietnam, in Confucianism and the Family edited by Walter H. Slote and George A De Vos.  State University of New York Press.  1998. 

Stephen B. Young.  The Orthodox Chinese Confucian Social Paradigm versus Vietnamese Individualism, in Confucianism and the Family edited by Walter H. Slote and George A De Vos.  State University of New York Press.  1998. 

Nguyen Trieu Dan.  A Vietnamese Family Chronicle: Twelve Generations on the Banks of the Hat River.  Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 1991.

Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield.  Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam.  Lynne Rienner Publishers.  1999.

Francois Houtart and Genevieve Lemercinier.  Hai Van: Life in a Vietnamese Commune.  Zed Books.  1984.

Rethinking confucianism : past and present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / edited by Benjamin A. Elman, John B. Duncan and Herman Ooms

Los Angeles : UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series, 2002

Vietnam : journeys of body, mind, and spirit / Nguyen Van Huy and Laurel Kendall, editors

Berkeley : University of California Press in association with American Museum of Natural History, New York, and Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi, c2003

History

Bradley, Mark, 1961-

Imagining Vietnam and America : the making of postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 / Mark Philip Bradley ; foreword by John Lewis Gaddis

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, c2000

Choi Byung Wook

Southern Vietnam under the reign of Minh Mang (1820-1841) : central policies and local response / Choi Byung Wook

Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publication, 2004

Duiker, William J., 1932-

The communist road to power in Vietnam / William J. Duiker

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996

Duiker, William J., 1932-

Ho Chi Minh / William J. Duiker

New York : Hyperion, c2000

Duiker, William J., 1932-

The rise of nationalism in Vietnam, 1900-1941 / William J. Duiker

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1976

Duiker, William J., 1932-

Sacred war : nationalism and revolution in a divided Vietnam / William J. Duiker

New York : McGraw-Hill, c1995

Elliott, David W. P

The Vietnamese war : revolution and social change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 / David W.P. Elliott

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2003-

Essays into Vietnamese pasts / K.W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore, editors

Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1995

Giebel, Christoph

Imagined ancestries of Vietnamese communism : Ton Duc Thang and the politics of history and memory / Christoph Giebel

Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, c2004

Goscha, Christopher E

Vietnam or Indochina? : contesting concepts of space in Vietnamese nationalism, 1887-1954 / Christopher E. Goscha

Copenhagen, Denmark, : NIAS Books, 1995

Hardy, Andrew (Andrew David)

Red hills : migrants and the state in the highlands of Vietnam / Andrew Hardy

Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press, c2003 BENDA PRIZE WINNER

Li, Tana

Nguyên Cochinchina : southern Vietnam in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Li Tana

Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, 1998

Lockhart, Bruce McFarland

The end of the Vietnamese monarchy / Bruce McFarland Lockhart

New Haven, Conn. : Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, c1993

Logan, William Stewart, 1942-

Hanoi, biography of a city / William S. Logan

Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2000

Marr, David G

Vietnam 1945 : the quest for power / David G. Marr

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995

Marr, David G

Vietnamese anticolonialism, 1885-1925 [by] David G. Marr

Berkeley, University of California [Press] 1971

Marr, David G

Vietnamese tradition on trial, 1920-1945 / David G. Marr

Pub info Berkeley : University of California Press, c1981

McHale, Shawn Frederick

Printing, power, and the transformation of Vietnamese culture, 1920-45 / by Shawn Frederick McHale

1995

McLeod, Mark W

The Vietnamese response to French intervention, 1862-1874 / Mark W. McLeod

New York : Praeger, 1991

Pelley, Patricia M

Postcolonial Vietnam : new histories of the national past / Patricia M. Pelley

Durham : Duke University Press, 2002

Perceptions of the past in Southeast Asia / edited by Anthony Reid and David Marr

Singapore : Published for the Asian Studies Association of Australia by Heinemann Educational Books (Asia), 1979

Quantitative economic history of Vietnam, 1900-1990 : an international workshop / editors, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Jean-Dominique Giacometti, Konosuke Odaka ; English editing: Suzanne Ruth Clark

Tokyo : Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, [2000]

Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th centuries / edited by David G. Marr and A.C. Milner

Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ; Canberra, Australia : Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1986

Southern Vietnam under the Nguyên : documents on the economic history of Cochinchina (Ðàng Trong), 1602-1777 / edited by Li Tana, Anthony Reid

Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, c1993

Tai, Hue-Tam Ho, 1948-

Radicalism and the origins of the Vietnamese revolution / Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992

Tønnesson, Stein

The Vietnamese revolution of 1945 : Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh and De Gaulle in a world at war

London : Sage Publications, 1991

War Related Resources

Kahin, George McTurnan

Intervention : how America became involved in Vietnam / by George McT. Kahin

New York : Knopf, 1986

Vietnam and America : a documented history / [edited by] Marvin E. Gettleman ... [et al.]

New York : Grove Press, c1995

Young, Marilyn Blatt

The Vietnam War : a history in documents / Marilyn B. Young, John J. Fitzgerald, A. Tom Grunfeld

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history / Spencer C. Tucker, editor

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998

Stacewicz, Richard

Title Winter soldiers : an oral history of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War / Richard Stacewicz

New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, 1997

Politics and State

Duiker, William J., 1932-

Vietnam : nation in revolution / William J. Duiker

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1983

Duiker, William J., 1932-

Vietnam : revolution in transition / William J. Duiker

Boulder, Colo. : Westview, 1995

Duiker, William J., 1932-

Vietnam since the fall of Saigon / by William J. Duiker

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1989

Marr, David G

Concepts of statecraft in Vietnam / David G. Marr

Pub info Taipei, Taiwan : Academia Sinica, Program for Southeast Asian Area Studies, [2000]

Postwar Vietnam : dilemmas in socialist development / David G. Marr & Christine P. White, editors ; sponsored by the Joint Committee on Southeast Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies

Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1988

Rethinking Vietnam / edited by Duncan McCargo

New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

Arts

Author Trân, Ky Phuong

Unifrm title Nhung di tích doc dáo cua nên van minh Chàm. English

Title Unique vestiges of Cham civilization / Tran Ky Phuong

Pub info Hanoi : Thê gioi, 2000

Title Dong Son drums in Viet Nam / [chairman, Pham Huy Thông]

Pub info [Hanoi?] : Viet Nam Social Science Publishing House, 1990

Author Taylor, Nora A

Title The artist and the state : the politics of painting and national identity in Ha Noi, Viet Nam 1925-1995 / by Nora Annesley Taylor

Pub info 1997

Collections and Biography

Chu tich Hô-Chí-Minh. English

Ho Chi Minh / [edited by the Commission for Research on Party History]

Hanoi : Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1988

Hô, Chí Minh, 1890-1969

Ho Chi Minh: selected articles and speeches, 1920-1967; edited, with an introduction, by Jack Woddis London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1969

Hô, Chí Minh, 1890-1969

Reflections from captivity / translated by Christopher Jenkins, Tran Khanh Tuyet, and Huynh Sanh-Thong ; edited by David G. Marr

Athens : Ohio University Press, c1978

Hô, Chí Minh, 1890-1969

Selected works

Hanoi, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1960-62

Hô, Chí Minh, 1890-1969

Selections. English. 1967

On revolution; selected writings, 1920-66. Edited and with an introd. by Bernard B. Fall

New York, Praeger [1967]

Pham, Van Ðông, 1906-

Van hóa và doi moi. English

Culture and renovation / Pham Van Ðông

Hà Nôi : Thê gioi, 2002

Phan, Bôi Châu, 1867-1940

Overturned chariot : the autobiography of Phan-Bôi-Châu / translated with an introduction and notes by Vinh Sinh and Nicholas Wickenden

Honolulu, Ha. : University of Hawai'i Press, 1999

Phan, Chu Trinh, 1872-1926

Trung kì dân biên thi mat kí. English

A complete account of the peasants' uprising in the central region = Trung ky dan bien thy mat ky / Phan Chu Trinh ; translated by Peter Baugher and Vu Ngu Chieu ; with an introduction by Peter Baugher

[Madison] : Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983

Võ, Nguyên Giáp, 1912-

"Big victory, great task"; North Viet-Nam's Minister of Defense assesses the course of the war. Introd. by David Schoenbrun

New York, Praeger [1968]

Võ, Nguyên Giáp, 1912-

Ðiên Biên Phu. English

Title Dien Bien Phu / Vo Nguyen Giap

Hanoi : Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1962

Võ, Nguyên Giáp, 1912-

National liberation war in Viet Nam; general line, strategy, tactics

Hanoi, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1971

Võ, Nguyên Giáp, 1912-

On the implementation of the Geneva agreements; excerpts from a report in the fourth session of the National Assembly, March 1955

Hanoi, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1955

Võ, Nguyên Giáp, 1912-

People's war, People's Army : the Viet Công insurrection manual for underdeveloped countries / foreword by Roger Hilsman ; profile of Giap by Bernard B. Fall

New York : Bantam Books, 1968

Võ, Nguyên Giáp, 1912-

How we won the war / by Vo Nguyen Giap & Van Tien Dung

Philadelphia : RECON Publications, 1976

Truong Chinh

The peasant question, 1937-1938 / by Truong Chinh and Vo Nguyen Giap ; translation and introd. by Christine Pelzer White

Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1974

Búi, Tín, 1946-

From enemy to friend : a North Vietnamese perspective on the war / Bui Tin ; translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyen Ngoc Bich

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 2002

Bùi, Tín, 1928-

Hoa xuyên tuyêt. English

Title Following Ho Chi Minh : the memoirs of a North Vietnamese colonel / by Bui Tin ; translated by Judy Stowe and Do Van ; introduction by Carlyle Thayer

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1995

Bùi, Tín, 1928-

Hoa xuyên tuyêt. English

From cadre to exile : the memoirs of a North Vietnamese journalist / Bui Tin ; translated from the Vietnamese and adapted by Judy Stowe and Do Van ; with an introduction by Carlyle A. Thayer

Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books, 1995

Truong, Nhu Tang

A Vietcong memoir / Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1985

Film

My Hanoi [videorecording] : personal reflections by Thuy Linh / TVE ; produced & directed by Thu Nguyen

Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c2001.

Gánh xiêc rong [videorecording] = Traveling circus / Discovery Communications presents ; kich ban Pham Thùy Nhân ; dao diên Viêt Linh ; chu nhiêm Trân Khai Hoàng

Singapore : Discovery Communications, c2004. DVD Eng subtitles.

Só do (Television program)

Só do [videorecording] / kich ban, Hua Van Ðinh ; [dao diên, Hà Van Trong]

R. Cucamanga [sic], CA : Gia Ðinh Productions, 2003. NO Subtitles.

Thuong nho dông quê [videorecording] = Nostalgia for the countryside / Discovery Communications Pte Ltd presents a Hoda Film and NHK production ; kich ban và dao diên Ðang Nhât Minh ; hãng phim Hôi diên anh Viêt Nam ; hãng truyên hinh NHK (Nhât ban) . Based on short stories of Nguyen Huy Thiep.

Singapore : Discovery Communications, c2003. DVD English Subtitles.

Mùa ôi [videorecording] = The guava house / Hãng phim Thanh Niên ; written and directed by Ðang Nhât Minh

[S.l. : s.n., 2002?] English Subtitles.

Ba mùa [videorecording] = Three seasons / Les Films Seville Pictures ; October Films presents an Open City Films production in association with Goatsingers and Giai Phong Film Studios ; produced by Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente and Tony Bui ; written and directed by Tony Bui

[Montreal, Quebec] : Seville Pictures, c2002

Nhung nguoi tho xe [videorecording] = Les coupeurs de bois / Hãng Phim Truyên Viêt Nam ; gioi thiêu, Xuong Làm Phim II

Paris : Doriane Films, [2000?] French Subtitles

The Environmental impact of war [videorecording] / produced by the Center for Defense Information

[Washington, D.C.] : Center for Defense Information, c1999

Mekong [videorecording] / produced by Along Mekong Productions with financial contribution of the European Union ; a film by Manfred Linke ... [et al.]

Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1999.

Nhung giong hát van hay nhât [videorecording] / Hô Guom Audio-Video ; Ban van nghê Ðài phát thanh & truyên hình Hà Nôi

Hà Nôi : Hô Guom Audio-Video, 1995. Selections of folk opera.

Burning incense [videorecording] = parfum d'encens / written and produced by Nora Taylor . Directed by Mac Van Chung; images and art direction, Bui Hoai Mai.

Hanoi : Nora Taylor, c1994. Study of the Van Mieu Temple and arts.

No time for tears [videorecording] : Vietnam : the women who served

Boston, MA : Fanlight Productions, c1993.

Lament of a warrior's wife [videorecording] / produced by Bob Kane productions

[Washington, D.C.] : Asia Resource Center, 1991.

Remember My Lai [videorecording] / a Yorkshire Television production for Frontline ; produced by Kevin Sim, Michael Bilton ; directed by Kevin Sim

[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c1989.

Vietnam [videorecording] : after the fire / an Acacia Production for Channel Four ; produced and directed by J. Edward Milner

[New York] : Cinema Guild, 1988

Ðât phuong Nam [videorecording] = Song of the south / produced by Ho Chi Minh City Television Film Studio ; KC Productions ; giám dôc san xuât, Nghê si Nhân dân Pham Khac ; biên kich & dao diên, Nguyên Vinh Son. Singapore : Discovery Communications, 2003.

Chí Phèo [videorecording] / dao dien, Pham Van Khoa ; kich ban, Ðoàn Lê. Westminster, CA : Ðông Ðô Film, c2003