Rethinking War and Revolution in Vietnam

Many
myths about Vietnam and the Vietnam War that were created during the war are
still widely taught in the US today. This talk presents findings based on fresh
sources from Vietnam that force us to rethink the orthodox view of that event
concerning the nature of the conflict from the perspective of Vietnamese
revolutionaries.

Tuong
Vu is Professor and Department Head of the Political Science Department at the
University of Oregon and has held visiting appointments at Princeton University
and National University of Singapore. His research has focused on the
comparative politics of state formation, revolutions, nationalism, and
communism in East and Southeast Asia, and more recently, on Vietnam’s modern
history and politics. He is the author or co-editor of seven books and 30
journal articles and book chapters. Among his recent and forthcoming
publications are “Bringing Empire Back in: The Imperial Origins of Nations in
Indochina,” in Aviel Roshwald, Cathie Carmichael, and Matthew D’Auria, eds.
Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism (Cambridge, forthcoming); The
Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation-Building
(Cornell, 2020); and Vietnam’s Communist Revolution: The Power and Limits of
Ideology (Cambridge, 2017). He currently directs the US-Vietnam Research Center
at the University of Oregon to promote research and education on contemporary
Vietnam, US-Vietnam relations, and the Vietnamese American community.