Bình Nguyên Lộc’s Thoroughfare (Đò dọc, 1959) is a charming novel about migration and dislocation in southern Vietnam in the mid-1950s. Nam Thành and his wife are originally from a village in Bạc Liêu province in the Mekong delta, but they flee with their daughters to Saigon during the early years of the Resistance War […]
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When was the last time I read a Vietnamese book for fun? I’m sad to say I can’t remember. Probably years ago. I’ve written elsewhere about the challenges of teaching and learning Vietnamese as a heritage language in the diaspora. I grew up in the US in the 80s and 90s and learned Vietnamese from
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Grant proposals are the subject of yet another installment in my series sharing old application materials. I shared my old grant for the Fulbright-Hays in my last post, and this post makes available my old application for the Mellon-CLIR. Although the Mellon-CLIR has been discontinued, I include this application to show how I tailored my
The third installment of this series is about grant proposals for dissertation fieldwork. All grad students who work on Vietnam will eventually have to travel there for research and it’s often the highlight of the grad school experience. But overseas research is expensive, and most students must apply for grants to fund their fieldwork or
In this second installment of my series sharing old application materials, I make available two personal statements that I wrote when I applied to grad school. It was my very first time producing a personal statement (also known as a statement of purpose), and I could not find any good models to emulate. Instead, I