Peter Zinoman

University of California, Berkeley | UCB · Department of History

This article reexamines Nhân VăănGiai Phẩm (NVGP), a political protest movement led by intellectuals that coalesced in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1956. The article reassesses the development of the movement and the internal composition of its leadership. Through a close reading of the major publications produced by NVGP, the article take...

The following essays address the historical roots, short-term consequences, and long-term legacies of two protracted periods of political violence that shook Indonesia and East Timor during the mid-1960s and the late 1990s. The first period saw the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists and alleged communists in the wake of an a...

Between the pacification of Tonkin in the late 1880s and the Nghe-Tinh Soviet Movement of 1930–31, the Thai Nguyen Rebellion was the largest and most destructive anti-colonial uprising to occur in French Indochina. On August 31, 1917, an eclectic band of political prisoners, common criminals and mutinous prison guards seized the Thai Nguyen Peniten...

Vietnam - Understanding Vietnam. By JamiesonNeil L.. Berkeley: University of California, 1993. Pp. 428. Bibliography, Index. - Volume 29 Issue 2 - Peter Zinoman