VIETNAMESE STUDIES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER NEWSLETTER,
WINTER 2008
EDITOR: MARK E. PFEIFER, PHD, Texas A and M University, Corpus Christi, TX.
E-Mail: vstudies@yahoo.com
ABOUT THE VIETNAMESE STUDIES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER: The
Vietnamese Studies Internet Resource Center (www.vietnamese-studies.org) is an
online source of comprehensive information related to the cross-disciplinary field of
Vietnamese Studies. It includes an online journal: The Review of Vietnamese Studies,
an online research article library, extensive subject bibliographies and detailed U.S.
census data as well as photo essays of Vietnamese-American and Vietnamese-
Canadian communities.
To view past issues of this quarterly Vietnamese Studies newsletter visit:
http://www.hmongstudies.com/VietnameseStudiesNewsletter.html
DETAILED 2006 AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA RELEASED FOR
VIETNAMESE AMERICANS:
In Late Fall 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau released detailed demographic info for the
Vietnamese-American population across the United States from the 2006 American
Community Survey. The detailed 2006 Vietnamese-American data may be viewed here:
http://www.hmongstudies.org/SEA2006ACS.html
A brief article describing the dataset is here: http://hmongstudies.org/vietnamese.pdf
Information about how to access this dataset on the US Census website or how obtain it
for another geographic area in addition to the entire U.S. is here.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED ACADEMIC WORK IN VIETNAMESE STUDIES:
Health and Medicine
Contextualizing health behaviors of Vietnamese Americans
by Enslein, Janet Charmain, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Iowa, 2007, 274
pages; AAT 3265944
Culture and cancer prevention among a population of Vietnamese Americans by Chan,
Nadine Lai-Sin, Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007, 85 pages; AAT 3265311
Sutton J, He M, Despard C, et al.
Barriers to Breastfeeding in a Vietnamese community: A qualitative exploration
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF DIETETIC PRACTICE AND RESEARCH 68 (4): 195-200 WIN
2007
Thai KTD, Nga TTT, Van Nam N, et al.
Incidence of primary dengue virus infections in Southern Vietnamese children and
reactivity against other flaviviruses
TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH 12 (12): 1553-1557 DEC 2007
Ross H, Trung DV, Phu VX
The costs of smoking in Vietnam: the case of inpatient care
TOBACCO CONTROL 16 (6): 405-409 DEC 2007
Vo DX, Pate OL, Zhao H, et al.
Voices of Asian American youth: Important characteristics of clinicians and clinical sites
PEDIATRICS 120 (6): E1481-E1493 DEC 2007
Kagawa-Singer M, Pourat N, Breen N, et al.
Breast and cervical cancer screening rates of subgroups of Asian American women in
california
MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW 64 (6): 706-730 DEC 2007
Mai NTH, Chau TTH, Thwaites G, et al.
Dexamethasone in Vietnamese adolescents and adults with bacterial meningitis NEW
ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 357 (24): 2431-2440 DEC 13 2007
Huong PLT, Thi NT, Nguyet NTT, et al.
First report on clinical features of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in Vietnamese
children
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 60 (6): 370-373 NOV 2007
Ho TLT, Egashira K
Lead and zinc adsorption by agricultural soils from trade villages: In Bac Ninh province,
northern Viet Nam
JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE KYUSHU UNIVERSITY 52 (2): 387-
393 OCT 2007
How Older Vietnamese Australian Women Manage their Medicines. By: O’Callaghan,
Cathy; Quine, Susan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Dec2007, Vol. 22 Issue 4,
p405-419
Risk Factors Associated with Stillbirth in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam. By: Swee May
Cripe; Tu Thi Thanh Phung; Thi Phuong Lan Nguyen; Michelle A. Williams. Journal of
Tropical Pediatrics, Nov2007, Vol. 53 Issue 5, p366-366,
Stroke care in Vietnam. By: Cong, Nguyen Huu. International Journal of Stroke,
Nov2007, Vol. 2 Issue 4, p279-280, 2p
Strengthening emergency obstetric care in Thanh Hoa and Quang Tri provinces in
Vietnam. By: Otchere, S.A.; Binh, H.T.. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics,
Nov2007, Vol. 99 Issue 2, p165-172
Alcoholism Level Differences between Vietnamese Batterers and Non-Batterers. By:
Nguyen, Tuyen; Yoshioka, Marianne. Journal of Family Violence, Nov2007, Vol. 22
Issue 8, p771-771
Knowledge Attitudes and Practice toward Epilepsy among Adults in BaVi, Vietnam: First
Report from the Population-Based EPIBAVI Study. By: Nguyen Anh Tuan; Le Quang
Cuong; Allebeck, Peter; Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc; Tomson, Torbjorn. Epilepsia (Series 4),
Oct2007, Vol. 48 Issue 10, p1914-1919,
HIV and Tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1997-2002. By: Tran Ngoc Buu;
Houben, Rein M. G. J.; Hoang Thi Quy; Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan; Borgdorff, Martien W.;
Cobelens, Frank G. J.. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Oct2007, Vol. 13 Issue 10, p1463-
1469
Impact of Vietnamese written and verbal medicine information on Vietnamese-speaking
Australians' knowledge and satisfaction. By: Mai, Anh; Aslani, Parisa. British Journal of
Clinical Pharmacology, Oct2007, Vol. 64 Issue 4, p527-535, 9p;
Causes of childhood epilepsy in Vietnam: cases in Bach Mai Hospital. By: SHIRASAKA,
YUKIYOSHI; LE DUC HINH; PHAN HONG MINH; SATO, WAKIRO. Pediatrics
International, Oct2007, Vol. 49 Issue 5, p584-588, 5p,
Health Status of Temporary Migrants in Urban Areas in Vietnam By: Nguyen, Liem T.;
White, Michael J.. International Migration, 2007, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p101-134, 34p
Sociocultural Adaptation of the Vietnamese Diaspora
Choi Y, He M, Harachi TW
Intergenerational cultural dissonance, parent-child conflict and bonding, and youth
problem behaviors among Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrant families
JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE 37 (1): 85-96 JAN 2008
Stritikus T, Nguyen D
Strategic transformation: Cultural and gender identity negotiation in first-generation
Vietnamese youth
AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL 44 (4): 853-895 DEC 2007
Ngo B, Lee SJ
Complicating the image of model minority success: A review of Southeast Asian
American education (Study includes Vietnamese-Americans)
REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 77 (4): 415-453 DEC 2007
An analysis of decision processes for marriage migration of Vietnamese women with
Taiwanese men by Nguyen, Phuong, M.A. Thesis, University of Arkansas, 2007, 82
pages; AAT 1442385
Comparing war stories: Literature by Vietnamese Americans, United States-
Guatemalans, and Filipino Americans by Fajardo, Margaret A., Ph.D. Dissertation,
University of California, San Diego, 2007, 155 pages; AAT 3277200
Good pho business: A socio-spatial analysis of Reno, Nevada's Vietnamese community
by Jimenez, Ethan E., M.S. Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2007, 123 pages; AAT
1442873
Path analysis models of psychosocial adjustment among Southeast Asian immigrant
youth by Lim, May, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2007, 140 pages; AAT
3276068
Relationship between perceived parental warmth, problem behaviors, and depression
among Vietnamese young adults by Tran, Ty Bach Thi, M.S.W. Thesis, California State
University, Long Beach, 2007, 68 pages; AAT 1448138
Religion, memory, and imagination in Vietnamese California by Padgett, Douglas M., Ph.
D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 2007, 253 pages; AAT 3255506
Hurricane Katrina: prior trauma, poverty and health among Vietnamese-American
survivors. By: Chen, A.C.-C.; Keith, V.M.; Leong, K.J.; Airriess, C.; Li, W.; Chung, K.-Y.;
Lee, C.-C.. International Nursing Review, Dec2007, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p324-331, 8p;
Issues in Contemporary Vietnam
Eayrs S, Hai NP, Ley J
Assessment of a juvenile and trash excluder device in a Vietnamese shrimp trawl fishery
ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE 64 (8): 1598-1602 NOV 2007
Nhung TTH
Vietnam's coastal communities: An assessment of poverty
EURASIAN GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS 48 (4): 481-494 JUL-AUG 2007
Defining strong ownership: Institutional determinants and stakeholder interests in
Vietnamese development planning by Nguyen Forsberg, Le Thanh Thi, Ph.D.
Dissertation, Lunds Universitet (Sweden), 2007, 235 pages; AAT C827958
Geographies of rural families: An examination of household economies in contemporary
Vietnam by Turner, Megan, M.A. Thesis, Dalhousie University (Canada), 2007, 94
pages; AAT MR31660
Indirectness in Vietnamese newspaper commentaries: A pilot study by Tran, Thai, Ph.D.
Dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2007, 214 pages; AAT 3262351
In pursuit of modernity: The making of "modern mothers" in Northern Vietnam by Luong,
Victoria H., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2007, 277 pages; AAT
3260728
Local non-government organizations in Vietnam: Development, civil society and state-
society relations by Hannah, Joseph, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington,
2007, 293 pages; AAT 3252862
Role of social capital in natural resource conservation: A case study of Cat Tien National
Park in Vietnam by Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc, Ph.D., University of Florida, 2007, 158 pages;
AAT 3281574
Poverty reduction by improving health and social services in Vietnam. By: Gien, Lan.;
Taylor, Sharon; Barter, Ken; Tiep, Nguyen; Mai, Bui X.; Lan, Nguyen T.. Nursing &
Health Sciences, Dec2007, Vol. 9 Issue 4, p304-309, 6p
Education and gender in revolutionary societies: insights from Vietnam, Nicaragua, and
Eritrea. By: Müller, Tanja R.. Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, Dec2007,
Vol. 37 Issue 5, p635-650
Integrated environmental assessment and pollution prevention in Vietnam: the case of
anthracite production. By: Chinh, Loi Dinh; Gheewala, Shabbir H.; Bonnet, Sébastien.
Journal of Cleaner Production, Dec2007, Vol. 15 Issue 18, p1768-1777
The lives of female sex workers in Vietnam: Findings from a qualitative study. By: Ngo,
Anh D.; McCurdy, Sheryl A.; Ross, Michael W.; Markham, Christine; Ratliff, Eric A.;
Pham, Hang T. B.. Culture, Health & Sexuality, Nov2007, Vol. 9 Issue 6, p555-570,
Dynamics of diatom colonization process in some rivers influenced by urban pollution
(Hanoi, Vietnam). By: Duong, Thi Thuy; Feurtet-Mazel, Agnès; Coste, Michel; Dang,
Dinh Kim; Boudou, Alain. Ecological Indicators, Nov2007, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p839-851,
Arsenic in groundwater of the Red River floodplain, Vietnam: Controlling geochemical
processes and reactive transport modeling. By: Postma, Dieke; Larsen, Flemming; Minh
Hue, Nguyen Thi; Duc, Mai Thanh; Viet, Pham Hung; Nhan, Pham Quy; Jessen, Søren.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Nov2007, Vol. 71 Issue 21, p5054-5071
Why May Forest Devolution Not Benefit the Rural Poor? Forest Entitlements in Vietnam’
s Central Highlands. By: Sikor, Thomas; Nguyen, Tan Quang. World Development,
Nov2007, Vol. 35 Issue 11, p2010-2025, 16p;
Influence of changes in land use and earthworm activities on carbon and nitrogen
dynamics in a steepland ecosystem in Northern Vietnam. By: F. Bernard-Reversat; N.
Bottinelli; C. Rouland-Lefèvre; T. Tran Duc. Biology & Fertility of Soils, Oct2007, Vol.
44 Issue 1, p69-77
Nutrient flows in small-scale peri-urban vegetable farming systems in Southeast Asia—A
case study in Hanoi By: Khai, Nguyen Manh; Ha, Pham Quang; Öborn, Ingrid.
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Oct2007, Vol. 122 Issue 2, p192-202, 11p
Soil translocation by weeding on steep-slope swidden fields in northern Vietnam. By:
Ziegler, Alan D.; Giambelluca, Thomas W.; Sutherland, Ross A.; Nullet, Mike A.; Vien,
Tran Duc. Soil & Tillage Research, Oct2007, Vol. 96 Issue 1/2, p219-233
Optimising water and phosphorus management in the urban environmental sanitation
system of Hanoi, Vietnam By: Montangero, Agnès; Cau, Le Ngoc; Anh, Nguyen Viet;
Tuan, Vu Dinh; Nga, Pham Thuy; Belevi, Hasan. Science of the Total Environment,
Oct2007, Vol. 384 Issue 1-3, p55-66
Ethnic minority development in Vietnam. By: Baulch, Bob; Truong Thi Kim Chuyen;
Haughton, Dominique; Haughton, Jonathan. Journal of Development Studies, Oct2007,
Vol. 43 Issue 7, p1151-1176, 26p
Are Vietnamese farmers concerned with their relative position in society? By: Carlsson,
Fredrik; Pham Khanh Nam; Linde-Rahr, Martin; Martinsson, Peter. Journal of
Development Studies, Oct2007, Vol. 43 Issue 7, p1177-1188, 12p
Vietnamese Culture and History
Pelley PM
The power of everyday politics: How Vietnamese peasants transformed national policy
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES 34 (2): 332-335 2007
Hien NT
'Seats for spirits to sit upon': Becoming a spirit medium in contemporary Vietnam
JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES 38 (3): 541-558 OCT 2007
Literati voices on the loss of national independence in Korea and Vietnam: A
transnational perspective, 1890—1920 by Pore, William F., Ph.D. Dissertation, The
George Washington University, 2007, 456 pages; AAT 3248461
Long Nguyen: Identity politics in art and cinema
by Tran, Thuy Nhat Diem, M.A. Thesis, Arizona State University, 2007, 91 pages; AAT
1444955
Musical transmissions: Folk music, mediation and modernity in northern Vietnam by
Meeker, Lauren, Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 2007, 348 pages; AAT
3266642
Resistance and change: A century of education reform in Vietnam
by Tibbetts, Patricia K., Ed.D. Dissertation, The George Washington University, 2007,
183 pages; AAT 3260162
"The durability of the empire": Race, empire and "abandoned" children in colonial
Vietnam, 1870—1956 by Firpo, Christina Elizabeth, Ph.D., University of California, Los
Angeles, 2007, 266 pages; AAT 3272303
Candles, Incense and Contact with the Dead. By: Wright, Sylvia Hart. Journal of
Spirituality & Paranormal Studies, Oct2007, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p197-201, 5p
COMPREHENSIVE VIETNAMESE STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHIES UPDATED:
All of the following Vietnamese Studies Bibliographies on the Vietnamese
Studies Internet Resource Center website have recently been updated:
Socio-Cultural Adaptation of the Vietnamese Diaspora
Educational Issues and Adaptation of Vietnamese Youth
Health and Medical Issues Affecting Vietnamese Populations
Vietnamese History, Culture, Language and Literature
Issues in Contemporary Vietnam and Recent Vietnamese History
Socioeconomic Adaptation of the Vietnamese Diaspora
Vietnamese Families, Family Life, and Gender Roles
Religion in the Vietnamese Diaspora
Vietnamese Elderly and Generational Issues
Mental Health Issues
Vietnamese in Canada
Vietnamese in Australia
Vietnamese in Europe