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Curriculum Vitae

Peter Zinoman
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94702
510-642-2334

CURRENT POSITIONS
Associate Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies.
Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Founding Editor, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, University of California Press

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Edited Volumes

Dumb Luck: A Novel by Vu Trong Phung, editor, translated by Peter Zinoman and Nguyen Nguyet Cam with an introduction by Peter Zinoman. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002).
The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
* Awarded the John King Fairbank Prize in East Asian History by the American Historical Association, 2001
** Awarded the Harry Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies by the Association of Asian Studies, 2003
Ve Nho Boi He: Nhung Tac Pham Cua Vu Trong Phung Moi Tim Thay Nam 2000 [Clown make-up: works by Vu Trong Phung newly discovered in 2,000], compiler and co-editor with Lai Nguyen An, (Hanoi: Hoi Nha Van, 2000). Supplemented with new material and republished in 2004.
The Legacy of Political Violence in Indonesia, special issue of Asian Survey: A Bi-monthly Review of Contemporary Asian Affairs, vol. XLII, No.4, July/August, 2002. Co-edited with Nancy Peluso.

Articles

“The Modern Vietnamese Short Story,” A Literary History of Modern Southeast Asia: The Short Story Genre edited by Teri Shaffer Yamada (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming in 2006)
-“What’s Going On? The Oakland Museum’s Vietnam War Exhibit and the Fields of Vietnamese Studies,” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture forthcoming in vol. 11: 6 (December 2006).
“Vietnamese-Americans and the Future of Vietnamese Studies in the United States,” Southeast Asian Studies Pacific Perspectives edited by Anthony Reid (Tempe: Monograph Series Press Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 2003).
“Hai Van, The Storm and Vietnamese Communism in the Inter-War Imagination,” Southeast Asia Over Three Generations: Essays Presented to Benedict Anderson edited by James Siegal and Audrey Kahin (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2003).
“Mot Bai Phong Van Vu Trong Phung Moi Tim Duoc” [A newly found interview of Vu Trong Phung], Tia Sang, 5/5/2002.
“Vu Trong Phung’s Dumb Luck and the Nature of Vietnamese Modernism,” introduction to Dumb Luck: A Novelby Vu Trong Phung (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002).
“Rethinking Aspects of Political Violence in Twentieth Century Indonesia and East Timor,” co-authored with Nancy Peluso, Asian Survey: A Bimonthly Review of Contemporary Asian Affairs, vol. XLII, No. 4, July/August, 2002.
“Reading Revolutionary Prison Memoirs,” in Hue-Tam Ho Tai (ed.) The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
"Colonial Prisons and Anticolonial Revolt: The Thai Nguyen Rebellion, 1917," Modern AsianStudies, 34 pt 1 (February 2000).
"The History of the Modern Prison and the Case of Indochina," in Vince Rafeal (ed.) Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines and Colonial Vietnam (Ithaca: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1999).
"Beyond the Revolutionary Prison Memoir." in The Vietnam Review 1 (1) Autumn/Winter (Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Fall, 1996).
"Declassifying Nguyen Huy Thiep." in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (Durham: Duke University Press, Winter/1995).
"Nguyen Huy Thiep's 'Vang Lua' and the Nature of Intellectual Dissent in Contemporary Vietnam," in Vietnam Generation: A Journal of Recent History and Contemporary Issues, 4(1-2): Spring, 1992.

Short Translations

“Clouds of War Still Hover Over Vietnam,” L.A. Times op. ed. piece by Pham Thi Hoai. Co-translated with Nguyen Nguyet Cam. Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2005.
“We Interview Mr. Vu Trong Phung about the Novels The Storm and To Be a Whore” Le Thanh’s 1937 interview with Vu Trong Phung originally published in Bac Ha. The Michigan Quarterly Review Volume XLIV, Number 1 (Winter 2005).
"Tu Ben the Actor," short story by Nguyen Cong Hoan in Terry Yamada (ed.) Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction in Southeast Asia (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2,002).
“The Debt of Life,” a short story by Nguyen Thi Ngoc Nhung in The Literary Review,vol.43 no.2 (Winter 2000).
"The Sound of Harness Bells," a short story by Nguyen Quang Lap and "Two Women," a short story by Nguyen Quang Thieu in The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and AmericanWriters (ed.) Wayne Karlin. Curbstone Press, 1995.
"Chastity" & "Sharp Sword," two stories by Nguyen Huy Thiep, in The Vietnam Forum #14 (New Haven, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 11/94).
"Nine Down Makes Ten," a story by Pham Thi Hoai, in Grandstreet, #44, Vol. 11, 1993. Republished in Night Again Linh Dinh (ed) (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1996).
"Fired Gold," a story by Nguyen Huy Thiep, in Vietnam Generation, 4(1-2): Spring, 1992. Republished in Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion Balaban and Duc (eds.) (San Francisco: Whereabouts Press, 1996).

Miscellaneous

Review of The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Le Thi Diem Thuy in The Los Angeles Times 8/2,003.
Review of Understanding Vietnam by Neil Jamieson, in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 29, 2 (1998).
“Bibliography of Modern Vietnamese Literature in Translation,” in Modern Southeast AsianLiterature in Translation: A Resource for Teaching Grant Olson (ed.) (Tempe: Arizona State University, 1997).

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