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In Between War and the State, Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional, charitable, community development, student, women's, and rights organizations active in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. By bringing focus to the public lives of South Vietnamese people, Between War and the State challenges persistent stereotypes of South Vietnam as a place without society or agency. Such robust associational life underscores how an active civil society survived despite difficulties imposed by the war, government restrictions, economic hardship, and external political forces. These competing political forces, which included the United States, Western aid agencies, and Vietnamese communist agents, created a highly competitive arena wherein the South Vietnamese state did not have a monopoly on persuasive or coercive power. To maintain its influence, the state sometimes needed to accommodate groups and limit its use of violence. Civil society participants in South Vietnam leveraged their social connections, made alliances, appealed to the domestic and international public, and used street protests to voice their concerns, secure their interests, and carry out their activities.

In Between War and the State, Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional, charitable, community development, student, women's, and rights organizations active in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. By bringing focus to the public lives of South Vietnamese people, Between War and the State challenges persistent stereotypes of South Vietnam as a place without society or agency. Such robust associational life underscores how an active civil society survived despite difficulties imposed by the war, government restrictions, economic hardship, and external political forces. These competing political forces, which included the United States, Western aid agencies, and Vietnamese communist agents, created a highly competitive arena wherein the South Vietnamese state did not have a monopoly on persuasive or coercive power. To maintain its influence, the state sometimes needed to accommodate groups and limit its use of violence. Civil society participants in South Vietnam leveraged their social connections, made alliances, appealed to the domestic and international public, and used street protests to voice their concerns, secure their interests, and carry out their activities.

In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam is a pioneering exploration of the discourses on poverty and poor-relief activities in early twentieth-century Northern Vietnam. Treating poverty as a socially constructed idea, Van Nguyen-Marshall argues that poor relief was a domain where both French colonialists and Vietnamese intellectuals vied for moral authority. For the French colonial officials, poor relief fell within the purview of the French «civilizing» mission, the official justification for imperialism. However, the colonial agenda, racial prejudices, and the French administrators' own ambivalent attitudes toward the poor made any attempt at poor relief doomed for failure. For Vietnamese intellectuals, the discourse and activities on poor relief became a rallying call for patriotism, nationalism, and, for some, anti-colonialism. In Search of Moral Authority deals with social issues such as charity and poor relief, as well as the construction of national and gender identity by Vietnamese intellectuals. This book is essential reading for students and specialists of Vietnamese history as well as those interested in issues of poverty, public welfare, and charity.

In A Displaced Nation, Phi-Van Nguyen argues that the displacement of eighty thousand mostly Roman Catholic evacuees from North Vietnam in 1954 had a profound impact on the war opposing Saigon on both Hanoi and on the evacuees themselves. Assisting with the transportation, emergency relief, and resettlement of the evacuees allowed diverse organizations and the United States to support Saigon. This transnational mobilization also convinced the evacuees the "free world" would never let Vietnam remain divided. Many people see the Vietnam wars spanning from 1945 to 1989 as separate conflicts. But Nguyen demonstrates that the evacuees experienced a continuous civil war. A Displaced Nation shows the evacuees felt so validated by transnational support that they thought they could use this external help to return one day to the north. This belief was not constant nor were the strategies to achieve it the same for all, but through their political activism and action the evacuees showed they were willing to seize any opportunity to oppose Hanoi during the subsequent decades, even once established overseas.

In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam is a pioneering exploration of the discourses on poverty and poor-relief activities in early twentieth-century Northern Vietnam. Treating poverty as a socially constructed idea, Van Nguyen-Marshall argues that poor relief was a domain where both French colonialists and Vietnamese intellectuals vied for moral authority. For the French colonial officials, poor relief fell within the purview of the French «civilizing» mission, the official justification for imperialism. However, the colonial agenda, racial prejudices, and the French administrators' own ambivalent attitudes toward the poor made any attempt at poor relief doomed for failure. For Vietnamese intellectuals, the discourse and activities on poor relief became a rallying call for patriotism, nationalism, and, for some, anti-colonialism. In Search of Moral Authority deals with social issues such as charity and poor relief, as well as the construction of national and gender identity by Vietnamese intellectuals. This book is essential reading for students and specialists of Vietnamese history as well as those interested in issues of poverty, public welfare, and charity.

Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the colonizer and colonized. Arnout Van der Meer's Performing Power explores what seemingly ordinary interactions reveal about the construction of national, racial, social, religious, and gender identities as well as the experience of modernity in colonial Indonesia. Through acts of everyday resistance, such as speaking a different language, withholding deference, and changing one's appearance and consumer behavior, a new generation of Indonesians contested the hegemonic colonial appropriation of local culture and the racial and gender inequalities that it sustained. Over time these relationships of domination and subordination became inverted, and by the twentieth century the Javanese used the tropes of Dutch colonial behavior to subvert the administrative hierarchy of the state. Thanks to generous funding from the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot and the Mellon Foundation the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

"The Last Flight Out" is a dramatic story by Nguyễn Văn Ba, whose heroic actions were highlighted in the 2015 Oscar-nominated film "Last Days in Vietnam." This gripping memoir recounts the pivotal moments leading up to the fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975. The book captures Nguyễn Văn Ba's personal journey as a South Vietnamese Air Force pilot, navigating the chaos during one of history's most crucial events. The story begins with the fall of Saigon and the evacuation of thousands of refugees, including Nguyễn Văn Ba's family and crew. It emphasizes his courage and quick decision-making, including the dramatic choice to ditch his helicopter in the ocean to ensure everyone's safety. Themes of sacrifice, leadership, and survival resonate throughout. As the story unfolds, Nguyễn Văn Ba explores the challenges his family faced after escaping Vietnam and resettling in the United States. The book delves into the emotional struggles and resilience needed to rebuild, reflecting the refugee experience and enduring spirit to overcome hardship. The book also reflects on the broader historical and cultural impact of the Vietnam War, not just on his family but on the Vietnamese community. His writings, initially published in Vietnamese-language newspapers, are compiled to mark the 50th remembrance of these events in 2025, aiming to preserve the memory of that era for future generations, especially his descendants. At its core, "The Last Flight Out" is a tribute to the countless lives affected by the Vietnam War, capturing both personal and collective hardships. Beyond recounting the trials of war, Nguyễn Văn Ba expresses hope for a united Vietnamese community that transcends past divisions, looking toward a future built on shared ideals, culture, and brotherhood. Web: www.nguyenvanba.com Email: mdn425@gmail.com ===Vietnamese Description -- Mô tả sách === "Chuyến Bay Sau Cùng" là một câu chuyện đầy kịch tính của Nguyễn Văn Ba, người có hành động anh hùng đã được nêu bật trong bộ phim "Last Days in Vietnam" được đề cử Oscar năm 2015. Hồi ký đầy cảm xúc này ghi lại những khoảnh khắc quan trọng dẫn đến sự sụp đổ của Sài Gòn vào ngày 29 tháng 4 năm 1975. Cuốn sách nắm bắt hành trình cá nhân của Nguyễn Văn Ba, một phi công Không Quân Việt Nam Cộng Hòa, khi ông vượt qua sự hỗn loạn trong một trong những sự kiện lịch sử quan trọng nhất. Câu chuyện bắt đầu với sự sụp đổ của Sài Gòn và cuộc di tản của hàng ngàn người tị nạn, bao gồm gia đình và đội ngũ của Nguyễn Văn Ba. Cuốn sách nhấn mạnh lòng can đảm và khả năng quyết định nhanh chóng của ông, bao gồm cả quyết định đầy kịch tính khi hạ máy bay trực thăng xuống biển để đảm bảo an toàn cho mọi người. Những chủ đề về sự hy sinh, lãnh đạo và sinh tồn vang vọng xuyên suốt câu chuyện. Khi câu chuyện tiến triển, Nguyễn Văn Ba khám phá những thử thách mà gia đình ông phải đối mặt sau khi trốn khỏi Việt Nam và tái định cư tại Hoa Kỳ. Cuốn sách đi sâu vào những khó khăn về mặt cảm xúc và nghị lực cần có để xây dựng lại cuộc sống, phản ánh trải nghiệm của người tị nạn và tinh thần bền bỉ vượt qua khó khăn. Cuốn sách cũng phản ánh về tác động lịch sử và văn hóa rộng lớn hơn của Chiến tranh Việt Nam, không chỉ đối với gia đình ông mà còn với cộng đồng người Việt. Những bài viết của ông, ban đầu được xuất bản trên các tờ báo Việt ngữ, được tập hợp lại để đánh dấu kỷ niệm 50 năm của những sự kiện này vào năm 2025, nhằm lưu giữ ký ức về thời kỳ đó cho các thế hệ sau, đặc biệt là con cháu của ông. Ở cốt lõi, "Chuyến Bay Sau Cùng" là sự tri ân đối với vô số cuộc đời bị ảnh hưởng bởi Chiến tranh Việt Nam, ghi lại cả những khó khăn cá nhân và tập thể. Ngoài việc kể lại những khó khăn của chiến tranh, Nguyễn Văn Ba bày tỏ hy vọng về một cộng đồng người Việt thống nhất, vượt qua những chia rẽ trong quá khứ để hướng tới một tương lai được xây dựng trên những lý tưởng, văn hóa và tình anh em chung. W: www.nguyenvanba.com E: mdn425@gmail.com

To the president of the United States do I ask the leaders to transparently confirm that they are anticommunist at their root or complicit. How are you anticommunist in the United States? Who created communism and the purpose of using the United States to wage war in South Vietnam? Is this the war of genocide and the defeat of the Vatican in South Vietnam? The life of the Vietnamese people or victims: colonialism, capitalism, communism, Christianity. The true Vietnam War witnesses live magical stories that have never been told of the United States and the communists is essentially a religious Christian war with South Vietnamese Buddhism under named ideology. A people with a culture of five thousand years is the fastest in the world to go bankrupt within fifty years. The Vatican and the United States must take responsibility and answer to the world history in the Vietnamese communist invasion and eradication of the Vietnamese people. The message to the Chinese Communist Party should stop invading Vietnam before it's too late. Vietnam is a holy place to bury the invaders' corpses. The S-shaped strip of land is the death land for all the invading empires.

Former Vietcong official tells what Vietnam thought it was fighting for, what the reunified Vietnam was like, and why he left.

This book presents research focusing on the Vietnam Nationalist Party (Việt Nam Quốc dân đảng) from 1927 to 1954. It elaborates on the party’s establishment, political ideology and organizational structure, the Yen Bai Uprising, the party’s downfall, and its role in the Vietnamese Revolution. Findings are presented systematically and comprehensively, relying on official and unofficial, as well as domestic and foreign sources, including texts from localities and hometowns of vital figures in the organization. The author compares, contrasts and evaluates this complex collection of documents based on the theoretical perspectives of conflict theory, social system theory, social structuralism and functionism, dialectic materialism and Marxist theory. It is essential reading for Vietnamese and international researchers interested in Vietnam’s political context in the early twentieth century and for undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Vietnam’s history and politics.