JVS mourns the premature passing of Gerard Sasges, a brilliant scholar of Vietnam and an Associate Professor in the Dept of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. A Canadian national with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Gerard made a significant mark... 1/

JVS Editor-in-Chief Van Nguyen-Marshall’s book “Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975” is the subject of a new Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum at H-Diplo. The forum is introduced by Peter Zinoman—another JVS EIC. issforum.org/roundtables/...

The Journal of Vietnamese Studies announces a new special issue to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, guest-edited by historian Nu-Anh Tran and comparative literature scholar Trinh M. Luu.

Introducing JVS 20(2), “Rupture and Reunion: New Translations About the End of the War in Vietnam.” The issue—commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of April 30, 1975—is guest-edited by historian Nu-Anh Tran and comparative literature scholar Trinh M. Luu. 1/

JVS is linked in the NYT’s report today on the sentencing of Vietnamese journalist and author Huy Đức.

"The university operates on a wellness program when the reality is that many of us have become unwell because of it. So begins the first entry of your monograph, 'dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss.'" dvan.org/2025/02/book...

In Washington, D.C., a collective of artists are honoring the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and looking forward to the next 50 years of what it means to be Vietnamese Americans. www.npr.org/2025/02/25/n...

Tomorrow's new Vietnam Weekly covers the recent summit between leaders of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in Ho Chi Minh City, plus concerns over potential transfer pricing after more than half of FDI companies operating in the country reported losses in 2024. thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe

JVS condemns the sentencing on February 27 of the journalist and historian Huy Duc (Huy Đức, given name Trương Huy San) to thirty months in prison following a trial in Hanoi. 1/

Rediscover this 2023 journal article on 1954-55 America’s diplomatic and consular presence in North Vietnam. The piece is authored by Lori Maguire via @ucpress.bsky.social and @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social edited by @heavyredaction.bsky.social, @pzinoman.bsky.social, and Van Nguyen-Marshall.

The Journal of Vietnamese Studies is pleased to announce our first issue of 2025—a special issue on “Queer Vietnam,” guest edited by Stephen Christopher and Helle Rydstrom. 1/

Nguyen Thu Huong’s JVS essay “The Case of Dạ Thảo Phương and Sexual Violence in Vietnam over the Last Two Decades” is cited in this report via The Diplomat, “Vietnam: No Country for #MeToo.” thediplomat.com/2025/01/viet...

A very Happy New Year to all our readers and subscribers! Thank you for being with Mekong Review at the start of another year. What are you looking forward to reading most about in 2025?

I did a New Books Network podcast interview about my new book, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford UP, 2024). player.megaphone.fm/NBNK8546233975

In June 2024, the Vietnamese journalist Trương Huy San (best known by his pen name Huy Đức) was arrested and detained. In a new @ucpress.bsky.social blog post, Peter Zinoman introduces an interview with Huy Đức—now published in the most recent issue of JVS. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...

Announcing JVS 19(3-4), a double issue and the last JVS of 2024. 1/

The November 2024–January 2025 issue of @mekongreview.bsky.social is out, so here I am to share some of what you'll find in the magazine. We're a small literary magazine focused on Asia and Asian perspectives; keep us going by getting a subscription or making a donation: mekongreview.com/subscribe/

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this isn’t a new photo - I took it a few years ago - but wanted to share it regardless

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