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Paradise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. Through the eyes of Hang, a young woman in her twenties who has grown up amidst the slums and intermittent beauty of Hanoi, we come to know the tragedy of her family as land reform rips apart their village. When her uncle Chinh's political loyalties replace family devotion, Hang is torn between her mother's appalling self-sacrifice and the bitterness of her aunt who can avenge but not...

In the late 1980s, Vietnam joined the global economy after decades of war and relative isolation, demonstrating how a former socialist government can adapt to global market forces with their neoliberal emphasis on freedom of choice for entrepreneurs and consumers. The Ironies of Freedom examines an aspect of this new market: commercial sex.

Nguyen-vo offers an ambitious analysis of gender and class conflicts surrounding commercial sex as a site of market freedom, governmental intervention, and depictions in popular culture to argue that these practices reveal the paradoxical...

Das große Glück scheint immer nur einen Steinwurf entfernt ... wäre da nicht das Gefühl, dass irgendetwas noch fehlt und uns von einem erfüllten Leben trennt. Doch was viele von uns vergeblich im Außen suchen, ist eigentlich längst da und liegt viel näher - in uns selbst.

Main Huong Nguyen zeigt drei Wege der Achtsamkeit, die in ein Leben voll Verbundenheit und Sinnhaftigkeit führen. Ob beim Arbeiten, Essen oder Streiten, beim Denken, Sprechen oder Medienkonsum, überall bieten sich dabei Gelegenheiten, Achtsamkeit zu üben. Das Mitgefühl mit uns selbst, mit anderen und...

This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.S. and Cambodia, two communities that have been separated from one another for nearly 30 years. It compares devotion to female religious figures in two minority religions, the Virgin Mary among the Catholics and the Mother Goddess among the Caodaists. Visual culture and institutional structures are examined within both communities. Thien-Huong Ninh invites a critical re-thinking of how race, gender, and religion are proxies for understanding, theorizing, and addressing...