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#MeToo Allegations Rock Vietnamese Literary World
Nov 11 2022
Earlier this year, Vietnamese literary circles were shocked by allegations of sexual assault and harassment against the poet Lương Ngọc An, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Báo Văn Nghệ.
Revisiting an Oscar Night Controversy — in 1975
Mar 30 2022
By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Film historian J
The Social Lives of God Pictures and Temple Statues
Jul 08 2021
By Laurel Kendall, author of Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian PlacesThe paintings of bold-faced gods in the Korean shaman’s shrine had fallen to the floor and stuck together. “They had been fighting,” the shaman said. They had caused her a season of bad luck, i
“Tiger Cages” in Vietnam: How the call for U.S. Prison Abolition is a Global Issue
Jul 17 2020
By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American PolicingJuly 17, 2020Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island off the coast of Vietnam called Côn Sơn.The photos depicted a wing of a
“Pho-get Trump”: Reflecting on Vietnamese refugee camps, detention, and deportation on World Refugee Day
Jun 20 2020
By Jana K. Lipman, author of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and RepatriatesOn World Refugee Day, the UNHCR estimates that there are over 25 million refugees around the world. Although the United States has always accepted refugees selectively based on its political prioritie