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Open research questions in Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

32 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,156 Vietnamese History and Culture Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • First, future studies could examine the growing relationship between digital communication and migration among ethnic minority populations. Finally, future studies could examine transnational ethnic identity and cross-border mobility among ethnic minority populations in Southeast Asia.

    Internal Migration and the Transformation of Community Life among Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research may explore the impact of modern media—what Ong (1982) calls “secondary orality”—on the transformation of folktales, the role of women as custodians and transmitters of oral knowledge or investigate less-studied motifs to offer a more comprehensive picture of the richness of minority cultures in Vietnam.

    Oral Tradition and Cultural Identity in Vietnamese Folktales: An Asian Humanities Perspective · 2026 · DOI

  • Tran identifies the cause of this fracture in the 1955–56 democracy debate that involved an array of political parties which remain underexplored by scholars.

    Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam · 2023 · DOI

  • Whereas in 1860 the organization was largely limited to the West Coast of North America, by the early twentieth century it spread to six continents and throughout the Pacific Rim.

    The Rise and Spread of the Hong Men Chee Kung Tong in the Cantonese Pacific and Beyond · 2023 · DOI

  • In light of the social phenomenological nature of translanguaging, I see the project as a distributed cognitive system (Hutchins, 1995), which also included but was not limited to the workshop participants, RELOs, Zoom-mediated collaborative activities, my first-person perspective on translanguaging, and my observer’s experiences in Vietnam.

    Creating a translanguaging space through Languaging: Reflections on design as English Language Specialist in Vietnam · 2022 · DOI

  • Little is known about Cambodia's highland minorities during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese communists were infiltrating their homelands on the ground and American bombers attacking them from the sky.

    Subaltern soldiers: Overshadowed Bunong highlanders in the Khmer Republic's army, 1970–75 · 2022 · DOI

  • Despite a number of acknowledgement studies in various settings, little is known of how these texts are composed by EFL writers in Vietnam and whether or not the culture has any influence on the composition of acknowledgements as reported in previous studies of acknowledgements.

    Generic Structures and Linguistic Features of TESOL Master’s Thesis Acknowledgements Written by Vietnamese Postgraduates · 2017 · DOI

  • I argue that there has been an organic, thriving – albeit very under-studied – body of Vietnamese-language literature and media in Orange County and VietnAmerica since 1975, which provides a fertile ground for the articulation of what I call “refug-endity.

    Articulating Refug-endity in VietnAmerica and the Diasporas 1975-2015: From Ethnic Autonomy to Global Visibility · 2015 · DOI

  • Despite a growing body of research assessing the impacts of the 1986 Renovation (Đổi Mới) Policy on labour migration, little is known about how this policy influenced the evolution of labour export and professional migration policies in Vietnam.

    Development and brain drain: a review of Vietnamese labour export and skilled migration · 2014 · DOI

  • War veterans of the former Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF) form a significant component of the Vietnamese refugee and migrant community overseas and yet their experiences remain under-researched and under-explored, with their histories having been largely silenced in the wider historiography of the war and erased within the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

    War and Diaspora: The Memories of South Vietnamese Soldiers · 2013 · DOI

  • Although a number of scholars have proposed that the study of religion be incorporated into the study of transnationalism, the “transnationalization” of religion is still rather understudied, and there have been few scholarly efforts to analyze the transnational aspects of the conversions to world religions of marginalized ethnic minority groups in countries with high levels of emigration.

    Ethnic and Transnational Dimensions of Recent Protestant Conversion among the Hmong in Northern Vietnam · 2010 · DOI

  • It argues that, for reasons not fully understood, donors have ignored these community-based organisations and, whether official agencies or INGOs, have operated with official structures in ways that contradict professional standards of aid as well as their corporate commitments to participatory and community-based methods.

    Vietnam’s Informal Farmers’ Groups: Narratives and Policy Implications · 2008

  • Little is known of the contributions of French missionaries to early highland ethnography in the mountainous north of Vietnam (then Tonkin) at the time of colonial contact, a period defined here as 1895–1920.

    Missionary ethnographers in Upper‐Tonkin: the early years, 1895–1920 · 2004 · DOI

  • To date, much of the macro-economic analysis by foreigners is limited to the analysis of offi cial data, and is often obscured by the researcher's own reflection or previous experience: those with wartime experience tend to see Vietnam through a North-South lens; those with previous experience in China carry with them as sumptions of similarity.

    Vietnam: “Pivotal Year”? · 1994 · DOI

  • Despite its obvious significance, the involvement of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the First Indo-China War has long been an under-researched and little understood subject in Cold War history.

    China and the First Indo-China War, 1950–54 · 1993 · DOI

  • News coverage of economic stories was often limited to a reporter's discovery that American PX goods were for sale on the streets of Saigon or that a black market for dollars existed in Cholon.

    A Neglected Aspect of the Vietnam Conflict · 1989 · DOI

  • Drawing on French archives, Lao and Vietnamese documents, and interviews with survivors, this article reconstitutes the history of this massacre and suggests that the massacre has not been fully investigated by historians for two reasons.

    A “Forgotten” Massacre: The Battle of Thakhek in Laos, 1946 · 2024 · DOI

  • This article examines this understudied event and the efforts of ordinary people, particularly the staff of the daily newspaper Sóng Thần, to collect and bury the corpses left on the highway.

    Appeasing the Spirits Along the ‘Highway of Horror’: Civic Life in Wartime Republic of Vietnam · 2018 · DOI

  • I highlight that the existence of the historically nonstate space was a security concern for modernizing states in Asia during and after the Cold War, which is an understudied aspect of China's relations with Vietnam and with its Asian neighbors more broadly.

    The Mountain Is High, and the Emperor Is Far Away: States and Smuggling Networks at the Sino-Vietnamese Border · 2018 · DOI

  • Many have discussed the Chinese Vietnamese who fled Vietnam in the 1970s and 1980s, however, little is known about the plights of the Chinese inside Vietnam during those decades.

    ‘Vietnam is my country land, China is my hometown’: Chinese communities in transition in the south of Vietnam · 2017 · DOI

  • Abstract Colonization should be examined not as a one-way process in which the colonizer unequivocally subdues the colonized but as a fluid phenomenon whereby the so-called subjugated peoples selectively adopt and adapt those elements that best fit their sociocultural traditions.

    Ritual, Power, and Pageantry · 2016 · DOI

  • Based on the limited literature and secondary media sources available, this article aims to sketch the landscape of work migration from Vietnam, which is the result of the government’s attempt to participate in the international arena.

    Development and brain drain: a review of Vietnamese labour export and skilled migration · 2014 · DOI

  • While politicians claim that Vietnam’s development is compromised by brain drain, little is known about the mobilities of skilled Vietnamese migrants as well as the extent to which the outflows of work migrants bring back forces for development.

    Development and brain drain: a review of Vietnamese labour export and skilled migration · 2014 · DOI

  • The content of radio was limited to a non-political domain and this fact, along with the particular position that many radios took in the social geography of towns and cities, lent itself to the easy entry of the radio into day-to-day life.

    Taking to the Waves: Vietnamese society around the radio in the 1930s · 2011 · DOI

  • By examining the mixed results of the campaign, I argue that “state functionalism,” a phenomenon defined as the use of ritual by state officials to advance official objectives and ideology, cannot succeed in controlling all meanings and values mobilized in ritual.

    the limits of “state functionalism” and the reconstruction of funerary ritual in contemporary northern Vietnam · 1996 · DOI

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