Since the 1970s, tens of thousands of Vietnamese immigrants have settled in Louisiana, Florida, and other Gulf Coast states, rebuilding lives that were upended by the wars in Indochina. For many, their faith has been an essential source of community and hope. But how have their experiences as migrants influenced their religious practices and interpretations of Buddhist tenets? And how has organized religion shaped their understanding of what it means to be Vietnamese in the United States?
This ethnographic study follows the monks and lay members of temples in the Gulf Coast region who practice Pure Land Buddhism, which is prevalent in East Asia but in the United States is less familiar than forms such as Zen. By treating the temple as a site to be made and remade, Vietnamese Americans have developed approaches that sometimes contradict fundamental Buddhist principles of nonattachment. This book considers the adaptation of Buddhist practices to fit American cultural contexts, from temple fundraising drives to the rebranding of the Vu Lan festival as Vietnamese Mother’s Day. It also reveals the vital role these faith communities have played in helping Vietnamese Americans navigate challenges from racial discrimination to Hurricane Katrina.

驻扎在四川广元的九连长梁三喜（吕晓禾 饰）为了从军政治部调来的指导员赵蒙生（唐国强 饰）推迟了探亲假，可出身高干家庭吃不了苦的蒙生打算只干几个月就走。1979年，赵母吴爽（刘燕生 饰）得知蒙生部队将要赴越作战，加紧督办调动之事。耿直的炮排长靳开来（何伟 饰）听说后火冒三丈，扬言要自费上北京告状。部队开赴云南边境，吴爽孤注一掷请求军长雷震（童超 饰）将蒙生调回后方……

本书通过一系列专题研究的形式，深入地探讨唐朝中央对岭南和南中国海的开拓经略，从多方面揭示了唐代岭南社会的重大变迁及其深远影响。本书对于研究中古岭南的开发和社会变迁，弄清中国南部边疆和海疆形成的历史过程，有比较重要的学术意义和现实意义。本书研究涉及断代史、边疆史、民族史、区域史、海洋史、交通史等众多研究领域。
本书主要通过以下几个专题展开研究。

This book tells the story of French interaction with Vietnam and the neighboring region, which began with the French seizure of Cochin-China and Tonking in the 19th century under Emperor Tu Duc and ended with their humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. After the conclusion of treaties with China in the nineteenth century, Western nations sought access to the resource-rich region of Yunnan. After attempts at exploring the Mekong River, the French turned their sights to the Red River. Only after Jean Dupuis successfully linked Hanoi with Yunnan was Admiral Dupre able to begin the conquest of Tonking. This volume begins where Chapuis's "History of Vietnam" left off, completing the colonial history of Vietnam. The decline of French authority in Indochina began with Japanese demands and subsequent occupation during World War II. The 9 March 1945 Japanese coup would mark the beginning of the end of French supremacy; however, French authorities would return with troops to confront the Vietnamese demands for unity and independence after Japan's defeat. Although an agreement between Sainteny and Ho Chi Minh would allow the French army to land in North Vietnam, the creation of the southern Republic of Cochin-China would be a move that ran counter to Vietnamese nationalist sentiment. Nine years later, the French found themselves ousted from their former colony.

《遏制与对抗:越南战争期间的中美关系(1961-1973)》在吸收国内外学术界关于中美关系研究最新成果的基础上，以越南抗美战争（1961-1973）为背景，以1960年代到1970年代初期中美关系的冷热变化为主线，勾画了中美之间从对抗走向缓和的历史演变过程，探讨了这一特定时期中美关系变迁的原因、特点以及对国际政治格局变迁的影响，为我们正确处理和更好地发展全球化时代的大国间关系，尤其是中美关系提供了有益的启示。《遏制与对抗:越南战争期间的中美关系(1961-1973)》不仅具有较高的学术价值，而且对于中美关系的发展具有积极的现实意义。

十岁时，梅（阮如琼 饰）被邻居送到西贡一大户人家当女佣。因为长得很像女主人死去的女儿，梅深受女主人的疼爱，但女主人并没因此看到生活的亮色，她的音乐家丈夫时不时就会不做交代外出数日，后来更是消失得再无踪迹。女主人的三个儿子因为整日无所事事，常拿梅寻开心，但慢慢地，他们发现家里的生气，全是由温和善良的梅带来。
十年转眼而过，梅（陈女燕溪 饰）出落得更具“古典美”，女主人因支持不住家里的开销开始变卖家产，并忍痛将梅送到另一户人家当佣人。新东家是位年轻的钢琴家，他是女主人儿子的朋友，梅在年少初见他时，就曾投下过爱慕的目光，而钢琴家也在同梅的接触中，逐渐感受到她的款款温情。

河野六郎序第一部は中古漢語の入門的解説から〈重紐論〉､ 中古漢語の体系､ 『韻鏡』をめぐる問題､ ベトナム語の諸論考等を収めた ｢中国音韻学研究｣ で､ 第二部は名著 『越南漢字音の研究』の増訂・影印版である｡ 本書により三根谷音韻学の集大成が完成した｡

越南我國舊稱「安南」，古稱「交阯」或「交州」。越南人自稱為「大越」或「安南國」，「越南國」之名最晚，起自清嘉慶帝之改定。越南與我國廣西、雲南山同脈，水同源。歷史上曾為中國之郡縣。

由於航海技術的發達，宗教已經不只侷限於一個國家，本書以大航海時代為背景，針對十六至十九世紀越南基督教政策做研究，但是，全世界那麼多國家，為什麼選擇越南呢？主要是越南是東亞重要的國家之一，因越戰被世界關注，又因近年經濟起飛使它成為東亞不可或缺的重要角色。
一個國家快速成長，它的文化當然不可被忽略，政府執政當局會因不同政權而對基督教有不同做法，例如：利用傳教士來促進南北方貿易及軍事上合作的關係，但是傳教士的關懷是下層的百姓，並不是政府利用的工具，故成為政府的對立面，政府如果得不到他國支援或受西方人威脅，傳教士往往就是首當其衝的犧牲品。
雖然這影響的方面很大，但是就單一面而言，傳教士甘冒風險傳教事業，他們的殉教精神令人動容，當時這種殉教精神被轉化為傳教者的桂冠，贏得信徒的歌頌與擁戴，本書在研究過程中深深了解神職人員的偉大，也感念他們的奉獻，讓基督教得以全面發展。

本書為國立成功大學越南研究中心及社團法人台越文化協會共同辦理「越南文化國際工作坊」的成果。

第一编介绍了元世祖忽必烈经营南海的整体情况，指明其对陈朝政策乃是以占城为据点支配南海整体大战略中的一环，进而阐明了元朝与陈朝的外交、以及1284-1285年及1287-1288年元朝出兵的详细经过。通过使用地图对战斗经过的研究，相对于“不知晓实地仅使用中国文献来研究”的中国史、元史研究者，山本达郎对陈朝方面动向的详细解明，并加以正确的地理考证，实现了前者无法达到的精度，使读者叹为观止。研究明朝永乐帝的对越政策、对越出兵，明朝统治越南的实际情况及黎利等人反抗而致使统治崩溃的第二编，也同样细致且高瞻远瞩。即便在当时引领越南史研究的法国学界，也尚未存在如此研究。其对明朝设置府州县的位置的考证，直到现在也仍然是各种研究的基础。

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 what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should be included as participants and agents in the story. Beginning with government-appointed historians' first publications in 1954 and following their efforts over the next thirty years, Patricia M. Pelley surveys this daunting historical process-and in doing so, opens a wide window on the historical forces and tensions that have gone into shaping the new nation of Vietnam. Although she considers a variety of sources-government directives, census reports, statistics, poetry, civic festivities, ethnographies, and museum displays-Pelley focuses primarily on the work of official historians in Hanoi who argued about and tried to stabilize the meaning of topics ranging from prehistory to the Vietnam War. She looks at their strained and idiosyncratic attempts to plot the Vietnamese past according to Marxist and Stalinist paradigms and their ultimate abandonment of such models. She explores their struggle to redefine Vietnam in multiethnic terms and to normalize the idea of the family-state. Centering on the conversation that began in 1954 among historians in North Vietnam, her work identifies a threefold process of creating the new history: how historiographical issues were constituted; how problems of interpretation and narration were resolved; and how various elements of the national narrative became conventionalized. As she tracks the processes that shaped the history of postcolonial Vietnam, Pelley dismantles numerous cliches of contemporary Vietnamese history and helps us to understand why and how its history-writing evolved.

【简介】
《战争哀歌》超越了战争，战争是它的背景，它的内核是关于逝去的青春，关于美和伤痛。
一场突如其来的战争打碎了阿坚和阿芳这对年轻情侣的生活，在血肉横飞的战争中，主人公阿坚成了幸存者，但战争带来的伤痛还远远没有平息。那些经历仍旧萦绕在阿坚的生活之中，被战争毁灭的不仅 仅是阿坚， 阿芳也遭遇了难以想象的梦魇。时间越长，阿坚越觉得自己不是活着，而是被困在这人世间。
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【奖项、评价】
★英国 “《独立报》外国小说奖”（1994）
★丹麦文化部的“亚非拉大洋洲文学奖”（1994）
★日本“日经亚洲奖”（2011）
★池泽夏树编辑出版《现代世界十大小说》 （东京：NHK出版社），《战争哀歌》又被收入（第九章）。（2014）
★“接触世界文化”最出色的书（2015）
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【推荐】
在一口气读完这部《战争哀歌》后，我产生的第一个念想竟然是，倘若这部 小说不是降世在越南，给这部小说生命的母语不是越南语，而是英文、法文、德文等，那么它在世界上会是怎样的一种喝彩和盛况呢？
——阎连科
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《追风筝的人》与《朗读者》这两部小说，无论是作家个人的写作技巧，还是对战争灾难与命运的生命体验，都不及《战争哀歌》来得更为丰富和直切。
——阎连科
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这部小说完全可以与本世纪（20世纪）以来最伟大的战争小说《西线无战事》娉美，甚至要超越《西线无战事》，因为与《西线无战事》不同，这是一部超越战争的小说，是一部关于创作，关于逝去的青春，也是关于美和伤痛的爱情小说。
——英国《独立报》
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在全世界的学校里，《战争哀歌》应该成为所有学生的必读书籍。
——英国作家与获奖导演莎姬•拉曼
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如果你要去越南旅游，那你就先读一读保宁的《战争哀歌》吧。
——《孤独星球》

The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society, booming cities swallowing up smaller villages, and the lure of modern living tugging at the traditional networks of family and community. Yet beneath these sweeping developments lurks an authoritarian political system that complicates the nation's apparent renaissance. In this engaging work, experienced journalist Bill Hayton looks at the costs of change in Vietnam and questions whether this rising Asian power is really heading toward capitalism and democracy. Based on vivid eyewitness accounts and pertinent case studies, Hayton's book addresses a broad variety of issues in today's Vietnam, including important shifts in international relations, the growth of civil society, economic developments and challenges, and the nation's nascent democracy movement as well as its notorious internal security. His analysis of Vietnam's 'police state', and its systematic mechanisms of social control, coercion, and surveillance, is fresh and particularly imperative when viewed alongside his portraits of urban and street life, cultural legacies, religion, the media, and the arts. With a firm sense of historical and cultural context, Hayton examines how these issues have emerged and where they will lead Vietnam in the next stage of its development.

This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to show how Vietnamese high finance and benevolent giving are connected to the intimate spheres of the informal economy. For the domestic super-elite who use the levers of political power to channel foreign capital into real estate and manufacturing projects, conspicuous consumption is a means of projecting an image of Asian ascendancy to potential investors. For Viet Kieus and Westerners who bring remittances into the local economy, personal relationships with local sex workers reinforce their ideas of Asia’s rise and Western decline, while simultaneously bolstering their diminished masculinity. Dealing in Desire illuminates Ho Chi Minh City’s sex industry as not just a microcosm of the global economy, but a critical space where dreams and deals are traded.

Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political economy view of peasant behavior stands in contrast to the model of a distinctive peasant moral economy in which the village community is primarily responsible for ensuring the welfare of its members.

許多世紀以來，越南人本身既是殖民者，又是其他殖民者的犧牲品。越南的國家版圖時而擴張，時而縮水，有時分裂，有時消失，而且這一切遠非他們所能掌控。儘管一再面對龐大的壓力，越南存活下來，創建了亞洲最特出、最複雜的文化。
近年來，隨著造訪這個獨特國度的人越來越多，對一本重要史冊的需求也不斷升高：我們需要有一本書，讓外界人士了解過去的統治者、叛亂者、僧侶與殖民者在越南留下的歷史痕跡。
高夏的新作《越南：世界史的失語者》充分滿足了這項需求。根據他對中南半島投入畢生研究的心得，所寫的這本書既能隨時保有越南「圈內人」的省思，在觀念上又不失與越南「圈外人」的聯繫。一波又一波來自中國、法國、日本或美國的入侵者最後都被越南人逐退，我們也見到越南人本身為這一切付出的可怕代價。由於冷戰期間最曠日持久的一場衝突戰就發生在越南，許多年來，為了宣傳，越南的過去一直遭到扭曲、操控。或許直到今天，我們才終於能從一種真正歷史的角度，對造成現代越南的事件進行觀察。
高夏運用越南文、法文與英文資料完成這項最新的研究。《越南：世界史的失語者》既有越南史的宏觀描述，又包容許多世紀以來詮釋越南層層面面的各種野史、傳說、歧見、文化與人物，無疑是一本卓越而重要的巨著。