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A “Biography Not” of General Trần Độ: His Dissident Writings, Elite Politics, and Death in Retrospect./ Ken Maclean. // Journal of Vietnamese Studies 2013, Vol. 8, No. 1.
2013
p. 34-79

This article explores the controversial life, writings, and death of Lieutenant General Trần Độ, a decorated war hero who became Vietnam’s leading political dissident during the final decade of his life. The general made use of his biography to author “open letters” that circulated via elite social networks and later the internet. In them, he called on the Vietnamese Communist Party to democratize itself in order to foster just and equitable development for all. The details illustrate the critical importance of an individual’s biography in shaping not only dissent, but official efforts to censor it as well.

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An Epistemology of Gender: Historical Notes on the Homosexual Body in Contemporary Vietnam, 1986 - 2005 / Richard Quang – Anh Tran // Journal of Vietnamese Studies 2014, Vol. 9, No. 2
2014
p. 1-45

This article traces the meaning of same-sex sexuality in Vietnamese-language popular sources from the Renovation period to the early years of the millennium to argue that one dominant meaning prevailed: the idea that homosexual identity is synonymous with gender-crossing. Historical studies have shown that in certain times and places, same-sex sexuality was predicated on other variables, such as status and power, not gender. Yet, the Vietnamese sources insist on the centrality of gender in homosexual definition. This article discusses two historical discourses, one medical and the other state-sponsored, that contributed to the shaping of this definition.

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An introduction to sociolinguistics / Janet Holmes, Nick Wilson.
Harlow : Pearson Education, 2013
538 p. ; : ill ; 30 cm



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