How do families remain close when turbulent forces threaten to tear them apart? In this
groundbreaking book based on more than a decade of research set in Vietnam, Merav …

The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing
during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands …

In Vietnam, international remittances from the Vietnamese diaspora are quantitatively
significant and contribute important economic inputs. Yet beyond capital transfer, these …

Moderate or severe pain is common among people with advanced cancer and other life-
threatening illnesses. Yet despite agreement that pain relief is a human right, the poorest …

This chapter places the contemporary maritime disputes in the South China Sea in the
context of the debate on “Asian Regionalism” and the rise of China. Special attention is …

Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has been a significant presence in the
country since its arrival in the sixteenth-century. Anh Q. Tran offers the first English …

This essay is meant to draw some threads together from the other pieces assembled in this
collection; but also to propose some new ideas and possible directions for research. It's an …

Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding
religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral to the global experience …

This article surveys the situation of Christianity in Vietnam since the fall of the Republic of
Vietnam (South Vietnam) to the Communist North Vietnam in April 1975. The predominant …

Asia as we know it today is the product of a wide range of polity expansions over time.
Recognising the territorial expansions of Asian polities large and small through the last …