He will talk about research on Vietnam’s history in the US at the Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities on June 24.

Zinoman is a history professor at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies of the California University. He is also founder and former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and a writer of the Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940.
 

He studies Vietnam’s contemporary history, culture, society and politics, as well as history of Vietnamese literature in the 20^th century.

He said not many of Vu Trong Phung’s works have been translated into English and this is disadvantageous to the Vietnamese writer and literature in general.