New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam
takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought …

Since the early 1990s, the shrine of Ba Chua Xu, the Lady of the Realm, has become the
most visited religious site in southern Vietnam, receiving more than a million visitors …

This book explores in anthropological terms the cultural identity of the people of the
Vietnamese South since the Vietnam War ended. The author describes southern Vietnam's …

This chapter considers the relevance of the concept of transition as it relates to the higher
education sector in Vietnam in the immediate post-doi moi period, 1986–1998. It examines …

With constant increasing in numbers of students studying abroad, Vietnam is on the way to
become one of the largest contributors to the world's international student mobility. The …

In a system that is known for its covert political style, Vietnam's decision making process is
often described as either consensus-based or simply confusing and inexplicable. This book …

Formal state schooling has since its inception been directed towards the building of national
identity. As state discourses are commonly and readily transmitted through school textbooks …

For many years now, knowledge production at universities and in countries like Vietnam has
been framed by centre/periphery discourses. In this paper, we suggest that interpreting …

Few studies exist on the long-term impacts of schooling policies in developing countries. We
examine the impacts—half a century later—of a mass education program conducted by the …

Vietnamese diacritics are used throughout the text except for names commonly used in
English, such as Ho Chi Minh, Viet Minh and Hanoi, or names of Vietnamese authors writing …