Sophie Quinn-Judge is associate director of the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture and Society, Temple University, Philadelphia. She is the author of Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years, 1919-1941 (C Hurst, 2003).

Recent articles

Vietnam's official commemoration of the Tet offensive of 1968 and the country's unification in 1975 is shadowed by the influential example of a courageous critic of the country's ruling system, says Sophie Quinn-Judge.

Writers, poets, and scholars among the virtual, worldwide Vietnamese imagined community are reinventing the moral foundations of the Vietnamese nation for an age of globalisation, says Sophie Quinn-Judge.

 (This article was first published on 29 April 2005)

The spectrum of commitment embodied in the lives of two recently deceased figures of modern Vietnam reveals much about the country's unfinished political and ethical journey, says Sophie Quinn-Judge.