The 7 Greatest Chinese Philosophers - Hàn Phi Tử (280 – 233 BC)

Original Title in Vietnamese
By Author: Ngô Quân
Publisher: California
Source: maxreading.com
 

Hàn Phi Tử (280 – 233 trước Công Nguyên)

1. Sơ Yếu Cuộc Đời

Hàn Phi, phỏng chừng sinh vào năm 280 trước CN. vốn thuộc dòng dõi quý tộc nước Hàn, tuy có theo hợc đạo Nho dưới môn Tuân Tử cùng Lý Tư, nhưng lại có tư tưởng khác biệt với thầy. Tuân Tử chú trọng về việc giáo hóa Lễ Nghĩa, còn Hàn Phi cùng Lý Tư thì nặng về pháp chế và quyền thuật, đi theo con đường hoàn toàn trái ngược với đạo Nho. Hàn Phi từng bảo: "Ngô ái ngô sư, ngô bưu ái chân lý". (Ta mến thầy ta, nhưng ta càng chuộng chân lý hơn). Hàn Phi viết rất nhiều sách, và đã nhiều lần dâng kiến nghị lên vua Hàn, nhưng chẳng được trọng dụng. Khi tác phẩm của Hàn Phi truyền sang nước Tần, lúc vua Tần đọc tới hai thiên "Cô phẩn" và "Ngũ xuẩn", thấy rất hạp với ý tưởng của mình, đã thán phục rằng: "Chao ôi, nếu trẫm mà có duyên gặp được người này, thì có chết cũng chẳng còn ân hận ".

IR - One Definition A Day: Bretton Woods System

IR - One Definition A Day : Bretton Woods

A series of multilateral agreements on international economic relations were reached at Bretton Woods (BW/US) in July 1944 under the aegis of the embryo UN. Forty-four states agreed to a Final Act establishing an IMF and an International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). The proposals that were discussed at BW were the outcome of a series of bilateral nogotiations conducted between the US and the UK over the previous two years. The IBRD was described by the London Economist in 1945 as a 'much simpler project which has attracted neither much discussion nor much hostility...'. 

The IMF, on the other hand, was from its inception more controversial. The two states concerned with these preliminaries, the US the UK had ratehr divergent ideas about the future monetary regime. These differences were made public in, respectively, the White Plan, originating in the US Treasury, and the Keynes Plan, originating in the UK Treasury. White envisaged a Stabilisation Fund made up entirely of contributions from member states. Keynes envisaged a Clearing Union based on the overdraft principle and employing a new unit of account - the 'bancor'. Whereas the total available liquidity remained constant under White - so that drawing rights equalled liabilities - in the Keynes scheme additional liquidity could be pumped into the system to enable debtor states to overdraw. Conversely, creditor states would provide the main collateral in this arrangement.

The Anglo-American differences over the putative IMF are sometimes peresented as the conservative versus the radical views of the future. It should be noted, however, that both schemes tended to reflect the perceived national interests of the parties advocating them. In the event, the US bargaining position was more credible and the Bretton Woods conference produced a fund which bore a close family resemblance to the White Plan.

The term 'Bretton Woods system' is often used to refer to these two institutions and to the regimes established. Both have changed considerably since their inception. Accordingly, the reference to 'Bretton Woods' is of historical, rather than contemporary, validity.


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IR - One Definition A Day: Amnesty International

IR - One Definition a Day: Amnesty International

An INGO working in the issue area of human rights. Amnesty began as a protest movement but quickly took on an organisational structure commensurate with its goals and tasks. The original conception for an international campaign in support of those detained throughtout the world for political or religious beliefs was that of Peter Benenson. Benenson's article in the British Sunday Observer in May 1961, entitled 'The Forgotten Prisoners' caught the imagination of world public opinion. Within a year over 200 cases had been taken up and representations on behalf of prisoners of conscience had been made.

Amnesty pursues three broad policy goals: the release of all prisoners of conscience; an end to all forms of torture (including the death penalty); and fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners. Amnesty is essentially a monitoring organisation and it critically depends upon a well-developed responsiveness from attentive publics throughout the system. In addition its reputation for impartiality and reliability makes it an important information source which is widely used by political elites across the world.

At the time of writing Amnesty has over one million members and supporters in over 150 states and territories. It is governed by a nine-member Executive Committee and a Secretary-General who implements policy decisions and heads the Secretariat. Its headquarters are based in London, UK. It is represented at the United Nations and in 1978 was awarded the UN human rights prize in recognition of its works in this area. Amnesty is officially recognized by the European Union, the Council of Europe, the organisation of American states and the Organisation of African Unity. It was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1977.


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Krishnamurti - One Definition A Day 'ACTION & IDEA'

Krishnamurti - One Definition A Day
'ACTION & IDEA'
Original Title in English
By Author: J. Krishnamurti¨
Abstract from 'The First and Last Freedom'

I SHOULD LIKE TO discuss the problem of action. This may be rather abstruse and difficult at the beginning but I hope that by thinking it over we shall be able to see the issue clearly, because our whole existence, our whole life, is a process of action.

Most of us live in a series of actions, of seemingly unrelated, disjointed actions, leading to disintegration, to frustration. It is a problem that concerns each one of us, because we live by action and without action there is no life, there is no experience, there is no thinking. Thought is action; and merely to pursue action at one particular level of consciousness, which is the outer, merely to be caught up in outward action without understanding the whole process of action itself, will inevitably lead us to frustration, to misery.

Our life is a series of actions or a process of action at different levels of consciousness. Consciousness is experiencing, naming and recording. That is consciousness is challenge and response, which is experiencing, then terming or naming, and then recording, which is memory. This process is action, is it not? Consciousness is action; and without challenge, response, without experiencing, naming or terming, without recording, which is memory, there is no action.

Foreign Author on Vietnam: Montagnards du Vietnam - La Trame Sacrée de la Vie

Foreign Author on Vietnam:  Montagnards du Vietnam - La Trame Sacrée de la Vie, Willy Randin, Editions Olizane, Genève, ISBN: 2880862035


Backcover:


"Quand le dernier 'Montagnard' mourra, ce sera la fin du monde", dit une antique croyance des hauts-plateaux du Viet-Nam.


A l'aube du XXe siècle, les peuples minoritaires 'montagnards' installés sur les hauts-plateaux du Viet-Nam se sentent menacés. Leur existence physique et culturelle est en jeu, de même que leur extraordinaire capacité d'adaptation à la nature.


A l'instar de plus de 200 millions d'indigènes vivant dans les forêts primaires de la planète, ils sont bousculés tandis que leur environnement est anéanti par des colons armés de tronçonneuses.


Assistons-nous aujourd'hui au crépuscule des peuples indigènes de la forêt et en particulier des 'Montagnards' du Viet-Nam, victimes d'une foire d'empoigne effrérée? Ces peuples résisteront-ils au vandalisme international qui provoque le massacre des forêts tropicales, base de la survie de l'humanité?


Un mouvement mondial de sauvegarde de minorités et des forêts tropicales se met en place. Une course au coude-à-coude s'engage entre d'un côté les destructeurs et de l'autre les sauveteurs. De l'issue de cette lutte dépend la survie de ces peuples et peut-être bien, pour une bonne part, celle de l'humanité toute entière.


About the Author:


Willy Randin est fondateur de Nouvelle Planète une organisation d'entraide internationale qui se donne pour but de lutter pour la sauvegarde des peuples et de leur environnement. 


Willy Randin fut administrateur d'hôpitaux de la Croix-Rouge au Yémen et au Vietnam pendant les guerres civiles qui ravagèrent ces pays. Il dirigea aussi l'hôpital créé par le Dr Albert Schweizer à Lambaréné au Gabon avant d'être un des responsables pendant 15 ans, de Pain pour le Prochain. 


Dans le cadre de Nouvelle Planète, il est retourné sur les Hauts-Plateaux du Vietnam où il a pris l'initiative de plusieurs programmes visant la survie des 'Montagnards' et le reboisement. 


Citation 
"Il faut que les peuples qui vivent sur cette planète en finissent avec le concept étroit de la libération de l'homme et qu'ils commencent à voir que la libération est quelquechose qui doit être étendu à l'ensemble du monde naturel.


Ce qu'il faut, c'est la libération du toutes les choses qui entretiennent la Vie - l'air, les eaux, les arbres - tout ce qui entretient la Trame Sacrée de la Vie.


Si les gens cessent de respecter ces nombreuses choses et d'en savoir gré, alors toute vie sera détruite et la vie humaine sur cette planète touchera à sa fin."


(Denis de Rougemont, L'Avenir est Notre Affaire)



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Auteurs Vietnamiens: Les Vietnamiens en France - Vietnamese-born, French citizens

Người Pháp gốc Việt là nhóm người có tổ tiên xuất xứ từ Việt Nam nhưng sau định cư ở Pháp. Đây là một trong những cộng đồng người Việt hải ngoại lớn nhất thế giới. Vì Chính phủ Pháp không làm thống kê với dữ liệu về chủng tộc của công dân Pháp nên không có con số nào chính xác để biết về số người Pháp gốc Việt. Số người Việt tại Pháp được ước tính từ khoảng 200.000^[1] đến 250.000^[2] người. Read more

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Other references:

• NGƯỜI VIỆT TẠI PHÁP XƯA VÀ NAY 
• Bến Việt giữa trời Tây 
• Hậu quả chiến tranh Đông Dương còn vương vấn trên đất Pháp
• La communauté vietnamienne de France
• Association du Business des Vietnamiens de France
• Union des Anciens Étudiants Vietnamien en France [ UAFV ]

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Recommended Readings: Global Financial Meltdown

The Global Financial Meltdown shows that the risk is real. You may lose everything in just seconds.

Of course the crisis has not happened just like it. It is a result of many flaws in the system. Many researchers and finance specialists have warned us about the risk.

Here is a list of "Survival Guide" readings to educate yourself against some death traps. Could it help really? One thing is for sure, you will learn a lot. BIG LESSON TO RETAIN: Don't live on credit, ever.

1. Original Title in English: 
Financial Armageddon: We Are in a Battle for our Very Survival...

Author: John Hagee

Book Review:

Everything prophesied in the Bible is coming to pass! It is no secret that we are living in a time of global crisis. The financial meltdown of Wall Street, bank failures, the subprime lending crisis, and uncontrollable gasoline prices are creating enormous stress for Americans. And now, we are facing an economic crisis that many are comparing to the events leading up to the...morel

TABLE OF CONTENTS : http://www.armageddonbooks.com/505hagee.html

2. Original Title in English: Crisis Investing (1980)

Author: Douglas R. Casey 

Book Review:

"In 'Crisis Investing', Douglas Casey offers virtually irrefutable evidence that a major crash of the U.S. economy is now inevitable. If Casey is correct, then prudent, thrifty Americans who have prepared for the future in traditional ways will soon be completely wiped out." 

3. Original Title in English:
The Coming Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It: Make a Fortune by Investing in Gold and Other Hard Assets

Authors: James Turk (Author) , John Rubino (Author)

4. Original Title in English: Economics in One Lesson

Author: Henry Hazlitt

Book review: 

This primer on economic principles brilliantly analyzes the seen and unseen consequences of political and economic actions. In the words of F.A. Hayek, there is "no other modern book from which the intelligent layman can learn so much about the basic truths of economics in so short a time."

Download: 

• http://www.fee.org/library/detail/economics-in-one-lesson-pdf-doc-audio#ixzz2pX5ER700
• http://www.fee.org/files/doclib/20121116_EconomicsInOneLesson.pdf

5. Original Title in English: 

• Gold Wars: The Battle Against Sound Money As Seen From A Swiss Perspective  by Author: Ferdinand Lips 

• The Gold Wars: The Tea Party Economist by Author:  Gary North

Book Introduction: 

There is a war against gold. Politicians hate a rising price of gold. So do centralbankers. A rising price of gold testifies against the politicians, who spend more moneythan they collect in taxes or borrow at interest, and it also testifies against central bankers,whose promises to stop rising prices is a lie that has not come true since about 1939. So, these people do whatever they can to ridicule gold and gold buyers. They dowhatever they can to drive down the price of gold – everything except the one thing thatwould drive it down: cease inflating. 

Download: http://www.garynorth.com/GoldWars.pdf

6. Original Title: 
The Coming Fiat Money Cataclysm and the Case for Gold

Authors: Kevin Dowd, Martin Hutchinson, and Gordon Kerr

Download: 
http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2012/7/v32n2-11.pdf

Definition of 'Fiat Money': 

Currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, but is not backed by a physical commodity. The value of fiat money is derived from the relationship between supply and demand rather than the value of the material that the money is made of. Historically, most currencies were based on physical commodities such as gold or silver, but fiat money is based solely on faith. Fiat is the Latin word for "it shall be".

Investopedia explains 'Fiat Money'Because fiat money is not linked to physical reserves, it risks becoming worthless due to hyperinflation. If people lose faith in a nation's paper currency, like the dollar bill, the money will no longer hold any value. Most modern paper currencies are fiat currencies, have no intrinsic value and are used solely as a means of payment. Historically, governments would mint coins out of a physical commodity such as gold or silver, or would print paper money that could be redeemed for a set amount of physical commodity. Fiat money is inconvertible and cannot be redeemed. Fiat money rose to prominence in the 20th century, specifically after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, when the United States ceased to allow the conversion of the dollar into gold.

Useful readings: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp

7. Original Title: The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures

Author: Richard Duncan

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Book Description: 

In this updated, second edition of the highly acclaimed international best seller, The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, 
Auhor Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy and that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump.

The Dollar Crisis is divided into five parts:

• Part One describes how the US trade deficits, which now exceed US$1 million a minute, have destabilized the global economy by creating a worldwide credit bubble.
• Part Two explains why these giant deficits cannot persist and why a US recession and a collapse in the value of the Dollar are unavoidable.
• Part Three analyzes the extraordinarily harmful impact that the US recession and the collapse of the Dollar will have on the rest of the world.
• Part Four offers original recommendations that, if implemented, would help mitigate the damage of the coming worldwide downturn and put in place the foundations for balanced and sustainable economic growth in the decades ahead.
• Part Five, which has been newly added to the second edition, describes the extraordinary evolution of this crisis since the first edition was completed in September 2002. It also considers how the Dollar Crisis is likely to unfold over the years immediately ahead, the likely policy response to the crisis, and why that response cannot succeed.The Dollar Standard is inherently flawed and increasingly unstable. Its collapse will be the most important economic event of the 21st Century.

Download: 
http://ebookbrowsee.net/the-dollar-crisis-causes-consequences-cures-pdf-d416491035


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Auteurs français_l'Indochine dans la sphère de coprospérité japonaise de 1940 à 1945

Original Titles in French:

by Author: René J. Poujade
Publisher: L'Harmattan (15 novembre 2007)
Collection : Mémoires asiatiques
ISBN-13: 978-2296043497

About the Books:

• Le premier volet « Cours martiales d’Indochine 1940-1945 » était consacré à la répression de la résistance par les autorités à Vichy en Indochine. Publié par les éditions La Bruyère, il a été lauréat du Prix Littéraire de la Résistance (mention spéciale).
• Le second volet « L’Indochine dans la sphère de coprospérité Japonaise 1940-1945 », témoigne documents à l’appui d’une situation souvent déformée ou ignorée.
• Le troisième volet « A l’ombre du soleil levant 1940-1945 » est fait de récits de situations vécues du sud du Pacifique à l’Indochine au cours de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Des récits parfois étonnants mais toujours d’une plume alerte que connaissent ces lecteurs de la presse spécialisée. Ecrits sans passion et avec humour, René J. Poujade signe ici le troisième volet de sa trilogie.

About the Author:

René Poujade est secrétaire général de la Fédération des réseaux de la résistance en Indochine FFL-FFC 1940-1945). Ses ouvrages forme la trilogie indochinoise consacrée à l’évocation de l’Indochine française occupée par le Japon au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

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Auteurs français_L'Indochine face au Japon (French Edition)

Original Title in French: L'Indochine face au Japon (French Edition)
by Author: Philippe Grandjean
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan (2004)
ISBN-10: 2747568571
ISBN-13: 978-2747568579

About the Book:

Présentation de l'éditeur : on a beaucoup écrit sur la deuxième Guerre mondiale et sur la guerre d'Indochine (1946-1954). Mais très peu sur l'étonnante aventure de l'Indochine dans la deuxième Guerre mondiale (1940-1945). Isolée, soudain, d'une Métropole écrasée en juin 1940, l'Indochine française de l'amiral Decoux est restée, après 1942, le seul îlot " blanc " dans le raz-de-marée nippon d'après Pearl Harbor. Contrainte d'accepter un stationnement et un transit de troupes japonaises, elle a, au contraire de la France occupée, maintenu une souveraineté française entière et une armée libre de ses mouvements. Le tout au prix d'une allégeance appuyée au lointain Maréchal et d'une forte autorité, parfois marquée de bavures, mais toutes deux vitales, face aux Nippons, pour la survie de cette France du bout du monde. Inventive par, nécessité, elle a sauvé l'économie. Plus étonnant, elle a lancé un véritable " aggiornamento " du statut colonial, multiplié les écoles et les stades, réhabilité les patries et relancé leurs cultures. Cet " incroyable pari ", suivant le mot de L. Bodard, a tenu cinq ans.
Pourquoi, le 9 mars 1945, moins de cinq mois avant Hiroshima, Tokyo a-t-il été conduit à balayer l'imperium français ? L'auteur décrit le fatal enchaînement né du malentendu entre la France libérée et une Indochine qui allait bientôt lui revenir intacte, avec les conséquences tragiques qui en ont découlé. Le 9 mars 1945 a engendré la guerre d'Indochine.

About the Author:

Biographie de l'auteur: Condisciple du futur général Giap à l'Université de Hanoi, puis docteur en droit et élève de Sciences Po, l'auteur, évadé d'un camp allemand, a vécu l'Indochine de la 2e guerre mondiale, de 1941 à 1945, comme officier ou avocat. Il en est l'un des survivants et des meilleurs connaisseurs.

Book reviews (very useful):

Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : L'Indochine face au Japon : 1940-1945 Decoux-de Gaulle, un malentendu fatal (Broché)

"L'Indochine était la partie de l'Empire colonial français qui avait reçu le plus d'investissements de la part de la métropole. Lorsque les événements de la guerre mondiale aboutirent, de 1940 à 1945, à relâcher la tutelle de Paris et à faire de l'amiral Decoux le seul maître à bord, la "perle de l'Empire" connut l'amorce d'une évolution politique intelligente, qui aurait sans doute abouti à une indépendance négociée, et un développement économique sans précédent. 
Et pourtant, quelques annnées plus tard, il ne restait rien, ni de la présence française, ni des institutions qui auraient permis une décolonisation sans drame (comme celle de l'Afrique noire), ni de l'avance économique que ces pays avaient prise sur leurs voisins, et des millions de morts allaient s'accumuler. 
Ce livre décrit les origines de ce désastre, qui tiennent à la vision complètement fantasmatique que les gaullistes de métropole avaient de l'Indochine, imaginant des équations Indochine = France occupée, Vietminh = FTP, Decoux = Pétain, Japon = Allemagne. Des provocations et une arrogance qui n'étaient plus de saison, le mépris total à l'égard de l'amiral Decoux qui connaissait la situation sur le terrain, des espoirs naïfs dans l' "amitié" des Etats-Unis aboutirent, le 9 mars 1945, à transformer en un déferlement de violence une occupation japonaise qui s'était jusque-là montrée respectueuse de la situation préexistante . Ni la diplomatie de l'amiral Decoux, ni le courage des faibles garnisons françaises, ni l'amitié de certains Indochinois comme le prince lao Boun Oum, ne purent empêcher la disparition de toute autorité française, puis, au bout de quelques mois, la disparition de toute forme d'administration, laissant un pouvoir vacant dont Hô Chi Minh allait s'emparer pour faire basculer les trois Etats d'Indochine dans une expérience communiste... ayant abouti en fin de course à un ultracapitalisme sans frein. M. Grandjean montre comment il s'en est fallu de peu, de très peu, de 160 jours à peine, pour que le pari de l'amiral Decoux fût gagné et pour que l'on vît émerger de l'Indochine française trois Etats qui auraient bénéficié de bases matérielles solides et seraient sans doute restés des amis des pays francophones. Thèse dérangeante, mais difficilement contestable: si Paris n'avait pas tout voulu régenter à des milliers de kilomètres de distance,trente ans de guerre ininterrompue eussent pu être évités." (Source: http://www.amazon.fr/LIndochine-face-Japon-Decoux-malentendu/dp/2747568571)

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Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam [Paperback] Benjamin A. Elman (Editor), John B. Duncan (Editor), Herman Ooms (Editor)

Original Title in English 

By Authors: Benjamin A. Elman (Editor), John B. Duncan (Editor), Herman Ooms (Editor)

Publisher: Univ of California Los Angeles (March 1, 2002)
ISBN-10: 1883191068 | ISBN-13: 978-1883191061 | Publication Date: March 1, 2002

Book Description

This ambitious volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars who have worked together over five years’ time in an attempt to explain the present pan-Asian revival of Confucianism a century after it was declared moribund by leading philosophers and thinkers in China and Japan as well as in the West.

This collaborative study of China and its historical sphere of influence in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam begins by clearly establishing the principal threads that made up Confucian thought in the period of its unchallenged eminence. It also examines the pitfalls of Western scholars who have tended to lump together as "Confucianism" many diverse currents of Chinese and other Asian classical thought.

Uniquely, the book explores as well traditional Confucian views of issues such as gender, medicine, and ritual, and examines the reasons given by leading Asian and Western scholars for rejecting Confucianism at the end of the nineteenth century.

Editorial Reviews

• "Elman’s concluding essay is a tour de force.... Should be required reading for all interested in modern Eastern Asia." -- Arif Dirlik, University of Oregon
• "The volume is most valuable for the exceptional attention given to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam." -- John A. Tucker, East Carolina University
• "This ambitious collection of essays challenges all previous discussions of Confucianism." -- Anne Walthall, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

About the Author

• Benjamin A. Elman is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his Ph.D. in Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 1980. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand, 1968-71, and was director of UCLA’s Center for Chinese Studies, 1997–99. His other works include Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch’ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 1990); A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 2000); and From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China (UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series, 2001).
• John B. Duncan is associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii, 1988. He is the author of The Origins of the Chosýn Dynasty (University of Washington Press, 2000) and has published articles in both English and Korean in such publications as The Cambridge History of Korea, the Journal of Korean Studies, Acto Koreana, and Korean Studies.
• Herman Ooms is professor of history at UCLA. He was educated in Belgium, where he earned an MA in Philosophy; Japan, where he earned an MA at Tokyo University in Anthroplogy of Religion; and the University of Chicago, where he received a PhD in Japanese History. His publications include: Charismatic Bureaucrat: A Political Biography of Matsudaira Sadanobu (1758-1829) (University of Chicago Press, 1975); Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570-1680 (Princeton University Press, 1985); Sosensuhai no shimborizumu (Symbolism in ancestor worship; Tokyo: Dobundo, 1987); and Tokugawa Village Practice: Class, Status, Power, Law (University of California Press, 1996)

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Vietnam Studies Group: Vietnam Scholars Directory

Vietnam Scholars Directory

The Vietnam Scholars Directory is intended to enable researchers from around the world to identify students and other scholars working on topics relating to Vietnam Studies. We particularly welcome information from scholars within Viet Nam on their research and publications relating to Vietnam Studies.

Danh mục Các học giả Việt Nam được thiết kế để tạo diêu kiện cho các nhà nghiên cứu trên thế giới có thể nhận biết vế các sinh viên và các học giả đang có các mối quan tâm nghiên cứu liên quan đến Việt Nam. Chúng tôi đặc biệt quan tâm đến những thông tin về các đề tài nghiên cứu và công trình đã xuất bản từ các học giả đang làm việc tại Việt Nam.

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Research & Study

Guide to Graduate Schools Opportunities for Vietnam Studies

Graduate Student Prize

• VSG Graduate Student Prize

Graduate Study Grant and Fellowship Opportunities

• Fulbright Program
• Social Science Research Council
• National Security Education Program
• National Endowment for the Arts

Vietnamese Studies in the United States

• Arizona State University
• University of California at Berkeley
• University of Hawai'i at Manoa
• Harvard University
• University of Michigan
• School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University/George Washington University
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin
• Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute
• Temple University. Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture and Society

 

Vietnamese Studies in other countries

• Bristol University
• School of Oriental and African Studies, London University
• Institut national des langues et civilsations orientales, Paris
• Université Denis Diderot - Paris7
• University of Aix-en-Provence
• Humboldt-U, Berlin
• Oriental Studies, University of Hamburg
• Passau
• Instituta Mirowoi literaturi imeni Gorkowo, Moscow
• Institut Orientalistyczny, University of Warszawa

Language Teaching programs in Vietnam

• CET
• CIEE
• Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute
• School for International Training College Semester Abroad in Ho Chi Minh City
• GUAVA Anouncement for VASI 2007

Language Teaching Products

• Web-Based Resources and CD-ROM Products
• Language Teaching Books and Tapes
• Vietnamese Language Texts

Faculty Development Seminars

• Contemporary Vietam: International Faculty Development Seminar, CIEE

Short Study Abroad Programs

• Portland State University
• Sage Colleges and Sanctuary International
• School for International Training
• University of Michigan
• UCR Summer Session in Hue - July 27- August 29, 2009
• UCLA 4-week summer program in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to study Globalized Vietnam
• "Study Abroad in America" program in the summer 2007 at Vietnam
• ANU Vietnam Studies Summer School Program 2008
• Announcement of De Anza College's (Cupertino, California) annual Summer Program in Vietnam
• Volunteers in Asia

(Source: http://www.lib.washington.edu/southeastasia/vsg/directory.html)



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Books on South East Asia - Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia

Original Titles in English

Brunei

• Perhaps the most reliable and up-to-date reference source on the country is Country Profile: Malaysia, Brunei (annual). A collection of papers on the country's natural resources and environment is found in a special issue of Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, vol. 13, no. 1 (June 1992); 
• CHUA THIA-ENG, CHOU LOKE MING, and MARIE SOL M. SADORRA (eds.), The Coastal Environmental Profile of Brunei Darussalam (1987), includes articles on land use, population, and the institutional framework; 
• TILAK DOSHI, "Brunei: The Steady State," Southeast Asian Affairs (1991), pp. 71-80; 
• SRITUA ARIEF, The Brunei Economy (1986);
• D.E. BROWN, Brunei (1970), chronicles the history of the sultanate from the early 19th century to the late 1960s;
• RANJIT SINGH, Brunei, 1839-1983 (1984);
• K.U. MENON, "Brunei Darussalam in 1986: In Search of the Political Kingdom," Southeast Asian Affairs (1987), pp. 85-101, traces political developments in the first three years of full independence. 
• ABU BAKAR HAMZAH, "Brunei Darussalam Continuity and Tradition,"Southeast Asian Affairs (1989), pp. 91-104; 
• ZAINAL KLING, "The Changing International Image of Brunei," Southeast Asian Affairs (1990), pp. 89-100. 

Cambodia

• RUSSELL R. ROSS (ed.), Cambodia: A Country Study, 3rd ed. (1990); 
• DAVID P. CHANDLER, The Land and People of Cambodia (1992); 
• MICHAEL VICKERY, Kampuchea: Politics, Economics, and Society (1986);
• JEAN DELVERT, Le Paysan cambodgien (1961), is a magisterial work;
• BEN KIERNAN and CHANTHOU BOUA (eds.), Peasants and Politics in Kampuchea, 1942-1981 (1982), is a useful anthology;
• RÉMY PRUD'HOMME, L'Économie du Cambodge (1969), is the only detailed study of the Cambodian economy and is still of historical interest;
• DAVID P. CHANDLER, A History of Cambodia, 2nd ed. (1992), traces the country's beginnings through the 1980s and is supplemented by his The Tragedy of Cambodian History (1991), a detailed political history since World War II;
• CLAUDE JACQUES, Angkor (1990);
• LAWRENCE PALMER BRIGGS, The Ancient Khmer Empire (1951, reprinted 1962); 
• BEN KIERNAN, How Pol Pot Came to Power (1983); 
• WILLIAM SHAWCROSS, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia, rev. ed. (1987); 
• KARL D. JACKSON (compiler), Cambodia, 1975-1978(1989); 
• MICHAEL VICKERY, Cambodia, 1975-1982 (1984), probably the best book-length analysis of the revolutionary era. 

Laos

• FRANK M. LeBAR and ADRIENNE SUDDARD (eds.), Laos, rev. ed. (1967), is a general survey;
• GRANT EVANS, Lao Peasants Under Socialism (1990), treats ethnography and economics;
• MARTIN STUART-FOX, Laos (1986), is the standard work, with good chapters on the economic system and domestic policies; 
• A more current overview is found in WILLIAM WORNER, "Economic Reform and Structural Change in Laos," Southeast Asian Affairs (1989), pp. 187-208. 
• JOSEPH J. ZASLOFF and LEONARD UNGER (eds.), Laos: Beyond the Revolution (1991), examines political, economic, social, and foreign policies. Further information can be found in the annotated bibliography by HELEN CORDELL (compiler), Laos (1991);
• ARTHUR J. DOMMEN, Laos: Keystone of Indochina (1985), is a brief general history, and his Conflict in Laos, rev. ed. (1971), a political history, focuses primarily on the period from the early 1950s to 1970;
• HUGH TOYE, Laos (1968), depicts Laos' historic position between Vietnam and Thailand;
• PAUL F. LANGER and JOSEPH J. ZASLOFF, North Vietnam and the Pathet Lao (1970), studies the role of communist North Vietnam in the origin and development of the Lao communist movement; 
• JOSEPH J. ZASLOFF, The Pathet Lao (1973), examines the political dynamics of the group, its leadership, commanding party, front, political and administrative organizations, and military forces;
• MARTIN STUART-FOX (ed.), Contemporary Laos (1982), is a collection of essays;
• MacALISTER BROWN and JOSEPH J. ZASLOFF, Apprentice Revolutionaries: The Communist Movement in Laos, 1930-1985 (1985), provides a political analysis. 

Malaysia

• R.S. MILNE and DIANE K. MAUZY, Malaysia (1986), is a comprehensive overview; 
• OOI JIN-BEE, Peninsular Malaysia, new ed. (1976), offers a good geographic overview of the country; 
• JAMES C. JACKSON, Sarawak (1968), is one of the few quality studies of the state. 
• JUDITH NAGATA, Malaysian Mosaic: Perspectives from a Polyethnic Society (1979); 
• KERNIAL SINGH SANDHU, Indians in Malaya: Some Aspects of Their Immigration and Settlement (1786-1957) (1969); 
• HEATHER STRANGE, Rural Malay Women in Tradition and Transition (1981); 
• HENG PEK KOON, Chinese Politics in Malaysia: A History of the Malaysian Chinese Association (1988);  
• JAMES V. JESUDASON, Ethnicity and the Economy: The State, Chinese Business, and Multinationals in Malaysia (1989);
• RAJ KUMAR, The Forest Resources of Malaysia, Their Economics and Development(1986); 
• S. ROBERT AIKEN et al., Development and Environment in Peninsular Malaysia (1982), focus on both environmental concerns and economic development; 
• MOHAMED ARIFF, The Malaysian Economy (1991); 
• GEORGE CHO, The Malaysian Economy: Spatial Perspectives (1990); 
• E.K. FISK and H. OSMAN-RANI (eds.), The Political Economy of Malaysia (1982); 
• GORDON P. MEANS, Malaysian Politics: The Second Generation (1991); 
• BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA and LEONARD Y. ANDAYA, A History of Malaysia (1982); 
• A good survey is JOHN GULLICK, Malaysia: Economic Expansion and National Unity (1981); 
• STEVEN RUNCIMAN, The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946 (1960); 
• ROBERT PRINGLE, Rajahs and Rebels: The Ibans of Sarawak Under Brooke Rule, 1841-1941 (1970), provide excellent coverage of the Brooke era; 
• PAUL WHEATLEY, The Golden Khersonese: Studies in the Historical Geography of the Malay Peninsula Before A.D. 1500 (1961, reprinted 1973), remains a classic work; 
• LEONARD Y. ANDAYA, The Kingdom of Johor, 1641-1728 (1975), is a fine analysis of that sultanate; 
• LIM TECK GHEE, Peasants and Their Agricultural Economy in Colonial Malaya, 1874-1941 (1977), treats economic history during the colonial era; 
• WILLIAM R. ROFF, The Origins of Malay Nationalism (1967), is a stimulating work that explores Malay society in the colonial years; 
• VICTOR PURCELL, The Chinese in Malaya (1948, reissued 1967), though somewhat dated, remains the only general survey; 
• R.S. MILNE and DIANE K. MAUZY, Politics and Government in Malaysia, rev. ed. (1980), is particularly good on the late colonial and early independence periods.

(Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc)


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