Faculty in History
Dr.
Ngo Vinh Long
Professor of History
207-581-1929
265B Stevens Hall
E-Mail:
ngo-vinh_long@umit.maine.edu
Alt E-Mail:
Ngovinhlong@yahoo.com
I received a Ph. D. in East Asian History and Far Eastern Languages
from Harvard University in 1978. I first joined the Department of
History at Maine in 1985 and have offered a variety of courses on East
Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the relations of the countries in
these regions with each other and with the United States. Currently, I
teach the introductory survey of East Asian Civilization (HTY 107),
South and Southeast Asia (HTY 108), History of Modern China (HTY 436),
History of Modern Japan (HTY 437), The United States and Vietnam: A
History (HTY 442), and The Cold War and Its Aftermath in East Asia (HTY
599.) This last course is a graduate seminar designed to give graduate
students a detailed examination of the Cold War in East Asia from the
perspectives of the major power as well as those of the impacted nations
in the region. The aim is to give graduate students the necessary
background and overall analyses on the relationships and interactions
between national and international issues during this crucial period so
as to enable these students to develop courses of their own once they
begin their teaching careers. In addition to these regular courses I
also offer Research and Reading Courses (HTY 550) to both undergraduates
as well as graduate students every year.
My research has focused on the problems of the peasantry and of rural
development in East and Southeast Asia. In recently years I have paid
increasing attention on the question of development and the roles of
governments in general. During the 2000-2001 academic year I served as a
Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, teaching courses on the history of
economic development in East and Southeast Asia since the end of World
War II and the history of foreign relations in East and Southeast Asia
since the end of the Cold War.
Book Publications:
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Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants under the French
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press, 1973; Columbia
University Press, October 1991).
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Vietnamese Women in Society and Revolution: The French Colonial Period
(Cambridge: Vietnam Resource Center, 1974).
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Co-Editor (with Douglas Allen), Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United
States and the War (Westview Press, 1991).
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Co-author (With Dang Tho Xuong and Vu Quang Viet), NONG NGHIEP, NONG
THON TRONG GIAI DOAN C0NG NGHIEP HOA, HIEN DAI HOA [Agriculture and
Rural Society in the Period of Industrialization and Modernization]
(Hanoi: Nha Xuat Ban Chinh Tri Quoc Gia [National Politics Publishing
House], 1997.)
Some Recent Articles:
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"The Good and the Bad of Vietnam’s Development" in Challenge: The
Magazine of Economic Affairs (M.E. Sharpe, Inc.), January-February
1997, pp. 87-109.
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"Ethnic Pluralism, Multiculturalism and Development in Vietnam" in
New
Political Science, Winter/Spring, 1997, Number 38/39, pp. 139-152.
Republished in George Katsiaficas and Teodros Kiros (eds.), The
Promise of Multiculturalism, Routledge (1998), pp. 132-146.
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"The East Asian Crisis: Some Historical Roots," in New Political
Science, Volume 21, Number 3, 1999, pp. 395-404.
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"China: Ten Years after the Tiananmen Crackdown," in New Political
Science, Number 4, 1999, pp. 463-473.
Work in Progress:
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Two book projects, an oral history of the Vietnamese revolution and a
study of the history of rural development in Vietnam as compared with
experiences in other Asian countries, have been under way since 1988.
A third book project, tentatively entitled "Vietnam: The Quest for
Independence and Freedom, 1945-2005" is under contract with Columbia
University Press.
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