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Research interests: public memory and public history; the famine of 1945 in northern Vietnam as experience and memory; telling lives: biography and autobiography; Vietnamese intellectual and revolutionary history.
Hue-Tam Ho Tai is Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University. Focusing on the social and cultural history of modern Vietnam, she is the author of Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon: The Memoirs of Bao Luong (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), and Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983), and is the editor of The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001) and co-editor of State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam: Property, Power and Values (New York: Routledge, 2012).
谭可泰是哈佛大学中越历史教授,主要研究兴趣为现代越南社会和文化历史,出版书籍包括《Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon: The Memoirs of Bao Luong》(2010),《Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution》(1992)。其它研究兴趣包括公共记忆与公众历史,作为经历与记忆的北越1945年饥荒,讲述生活,传记与自传,越南思想与革命历史。
Passion, Betrayal and Revolution in Colonial Saigon (2010)
"Remembered Realms: Pierre Nora and French National Memory" in The American Historical Review
(2001)
The Country of Memory:Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (2001)
"Representing the Past in Vietnamese Museums" in Curator (1998)
"Monumental Ambiguity: the State Commemoration of Ho Chi Minh" in Essays into Vietnamese Pasts (1995)
Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution(1992)
Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (1983)
Op-Eds
Bao Luong, Brief life of a Vietnamese revolutionary: 1909-1976, Harvard Magazine, March 2011
Media Mentions
Vietnam, the ongoing memory, Harvard Gazette, December 2014
Video Lectures
Asian Varieties of Socialism: China, India, Vietnam - Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Hanoi's Two Hiltons: Repackaging the Past to Serve the Present