{"title":"Hà Nội Sidewalks","authors":"Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Chăm","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"Hà Nội sidewalks are one of the public spaces that various social groups appropriate and utilize for their own social, political, and economic purposes. Concentrating on the insiders’ point of view, this study offers a close look at how people’s practices create a unique sidewalk culture that affirms the importance of sidewalks in creating a more dynamic city. The article focuses on discussing the pavement as a particular cultural space, a space maintained by the arrangements and negotiations of cultural agency. The pavement is not messy, sleazy, or out-of-date but orderly, flexible, humane, and rich in identity.","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67023922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When the Poet Did Not Rape Completely","authors":"Phạm Thị Hoài","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67024042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945, by Christina Elizabeth Firpo","authors":"Isabelle Tracol-Huynh","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.2-3.166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.2-3.166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67023165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guerillas in the City","authors":"Uyen Nguyen","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the administrative takeover of Hà Nội as a Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) state-making project in the immediate postwar period (1954–1960). This administrative takeover happened in two stages. First, the DRV “grafted” onto the existing structure to ensure that public administration continued to function. Later, the system was slowly transformed as Associated State of Vietnam (ASV) state employees were sidelined and replaced by the DRV’s own personnel. This article argues that the establishment of the DRV administration in Hà Nội, like other state-making projects that took place throughout the northern territory during the 1950s, was a complicated process that required deliberation, adjustment, and coercion.","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67023412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconfiguring Inculturations","authors":"Yuqing Du","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.2-3.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.2-3.38","url":null,"abstract":"In the history of building the Vietnamese National Church, many Catholic works of literature produced by missionaries and local believers sought to place the faith in the context of Vietnamese society. Hội đồng tứ giáo is one of the most influential works within this proliferative Catholic literature, with many versions printed in Chinese, Nôm, and quốc ngữ. Drawing on interreligious knowledge and networks, it sought to respond to the intellectual innovation and local spiritual paradigm of the three religions in a late eighteenth-century context. By configuring a formal debate between representatives from Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Catholicism, the book demonstrates broader intellectual connections of Catholic knowledge and multidimensional inculturation in the cultural and religious context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Vietnam. The interfaith dialogue in the book illuminates an inculturation process assembled by the flows of people and ideas that in turn shaped local Catholic traditions.","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67023421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prophets and Zealots","authors":"L. Ngo","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.2-3.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.2-3.64","url":null,"abstract":"The 1873 Công đồng Tứ Xuyên, a principal and influential pastoral manual for local Vietnamese clergy, demonstrates that these religious leaders belonged to the scholar-official social class. They embraced the late Trần Confucian tradition of moral leadership. This study uses structural analysis to show the essential peculiarities beyond the external elements of the text by contextualizing this church document in the longue durée of the Vietnamese political-cultural system. By applying the tools of cultural history, this article aims to retrieve the long-muted voices of the local Catholic leaders of the precolonial period.","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67023442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Vietnam’s Communist Revolution: The Power and Limits of Ideology, by Tuong Vu; Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960, by Alec Holcombe","authors":"Nathaniel L. Moir","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.1.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.1.58","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67023491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms: Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective, edited by Lisa B. W. Drummond and Douglas Young","authors":"Nguyễn-võ Thu-hương","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67023705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building, edited by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear","authors":"E. Miller","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67023739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catholicism and the Development of the Vietnamese Alphabet, 1620–1898","authors":"Anh Q. Tran","doi":"10.1525/vs.2022.17.2-3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2022.17.2-3.9","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the Catholic contributions to the development of the Vietnamese alphabet—quốc ngữ, or the “national script”—during its first 250 years of existence, before it was popularized outside of Catholic circles. In particular, the article traces the evolution of quốc ngữ spelling in the writings and publications of European Catholic missionaries and Vietnamese catechists and priests from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. These texts include the dictionaries and descriptions of the Vietnamese language by Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) and Jean-Louis Tabert (1838), as well as lesser-known quốc ngữ writings before the twentieth century. Since the Vietnamese alphabet began as a transcription of spoken Vietnamese, its changing orthography also reflects changes in Vietnamese pronunciation.","PeriodicalId":41316,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vietnamese Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67023862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}