Vietnam at the Vanguard

1 Introduction

Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, & Phan Le Ha

PART I: Shaping Vietnamese Communities in a Globalized World

2 Transnational Life Trajectories and the Notion of Return: German-born Việt kiều (Overseas Vietnamese) Travelling to their Ancestral Homeland

Max Müller, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

3 Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression

Mirjam Le & Franziska Nicolaisen, University of Passau, Germany

4 Sharing Harmony and Solidarity Values across Generations in Australian Vietnamese Refugee Families

Giang T. T. Tran, Hanoi University of Culture, Vietnam

5 Social Capital for Local Governance beyond the State-Civil Society Dichotomy and Insights from Vietnam through the Case Study of a Community-based Upgrading Project

PART II: History, Community, and Cultural Practices across Time and Space

6 Lạc Việt: From Ethnonym to Symbolic Ethnicity

Dinh Hong Hai, Vietnam National University-Hanoi, Vietnam & Liam C. Kelley, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

7 Ethics, Place, and Cosmopolitan Strands in Early Twentieth Century Korean and Vietnamese Literati-Intellectuals' Writings

Will Pore, Busan University, South Korea

8 Support of the Polish People's Republic for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War

Jarema Slowiak, Jagiellonian University, Poland

9 Kite Flying as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam: Community Embodiment or Appropriating Culture?

Dang Thi Phuong Anh, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam

10 From Dichotomy to Multipolarity: A Case Study of the Four Ladyship Saints Worshipping Practices in Vietnam

Tran Thi An, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam

11 Divinatory Arts and Tử Vi

Myriam Dao, Artist and Independent Scholar, France

PART III: Higher Education, Society and the Global Stage

12 Developing a Research Culture in Vietnam: A Leadership Conceptual Framework

Huong Thi Lan Nguyen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia & Timothy Marjoribanks, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

13 Higher Education in Vietnam and a New Vision for Internationalization at Home post COVID-19

Thanh Phung, VNU University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam, & Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam & Phan Le Ha, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam; University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Afterword: Tamsin Barber,