Resources edit

Overviews edit

Academic journals edit

Some academic journals available via Jstor:

  • Journal of Vietnamese Studies. University of California Press. ISSN 1559-372X.
  • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 0022-4634.

Peer-reviewed academic journals in Vietnam edit

State-run academic journals edit

Book sources edit

The following list tries to include all possible academic book sources about Vietnam, sorted alphabetically.

General edit

History edit

Pre-1900 edit

Vietnam War edit

South Vietnam edit

  • Duy Hinh, Nguyen; Dinh Tho, Tran (2015). The South Vietnamese Society. Normanby Press. ISBN 978-1-78625-513-6.
  • Miller, Edward (2013). Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-07298-5.
  • Nguyen, Duy Lap (2020). The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-4396-9.
  • Vu, Tuong; Fear, Sean, eds. (2020). The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501745133.
  • Scigliano, Robert (1964). South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress. Houghton Mifflin.

Hồ Chí Minh edit

After 1975 edit

Politics edit

Foreign relations edit

Economy edit

Cuisine edit

Clothing edit

Religion edit

Language edit

Folktales edit

Cinema edit

Environment edit

Vietnamese Americans edit

Not directly about Vietnamese Americans

Reliable media sources edit

vi:Wikipedia:Danh sách nguồn đáng tin cậy/Tiếng Việt and vi:Danh sách báo chí Việt Nam in Vietnamese Wikipedia are more complete lists on Vietnamese sources.

State-run edit

Non state-run edit

While all media in Vietnam must be sponsored by a Communist Party organization and be registered with the government, the following media sources have less government control than others.

  • VnExpress: Popular online newspaper (in Vietnamese)
  • Tuổi Trẻ (Youth): Daily newspaper with highest circulation, affiliated with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Organization of Ho Chi Minh City (in Vietnamese)
  • Thanh Niên (Youth): Major daily newspaper, affiliated with the Vietnam National Youth Federation (in Vietnamese)
  • Lao Động (Labour): Major daily newspaper, affiliated with the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (the sole labour union in Vietnam) (in Vietnamese)
  • Tiền Phong (Vanguard): Major daily newspaper, affiliated with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth organization (in Vietnamese)
  • VnEconomy: economic newspaper (in Vietnamese)
  • The Saigon Times: English business newspaper
  • Pháp luật điện tử TP.HCM (Electronic law Ho Chi Minh City) (in Vietnamese)
  • thoidai.com.vn (Vietnam Times): affiliated with Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (in Vietnamese)

Overseas-based edit

These news sources are completely free from the control, censorship and influence by the Vietnamese communist regime.

Considered unreliable edit