Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. INTRODUCTION. War, the Second Republic, and the Diaspora 1
6. CHAPTER ONE “Everything Depends on Us Alone”: President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu’s Vietnamization Strategy 21
7. CHAPTER TWO “All the Communists Must Leave”: The Origin, Evolution, and Failure of Saigon’s Peace Demands, 1963–1973 41
8. CHAPTER THREE War, Nation-Building, and the Role of the Press in the Second Republic 61
9. CHAPTER FOUR Reconceptualizing Foreign Aid: The United States’ Commercial Import Program for the Republic of Vietnam, 1954–1975 83
10. CHAPTER FIVE Building Higher Education during War: South Vietnam’s Public Universities in the Second Republic, 1967–1975 104
11. CHAPTER SIX Buddhist Social Work in the Vietnam War: Thích Nhất Hạnh and the School of Youth for Social Service 124
12. CHAPTER SEVEN Political Philology and Academic Freedom: A Defense of Thích Minh Châu 145
13. CHAPTER EIGHT Songs of Sympathy in Time of War: Commercial Music in the Republic of Vietnam 168
14. CHAPTER NINE Pray the Rosary and Do Apostolic Work: The Modern Vietnamese Catholic Associational Culture 189
15. CHAPTER TEN Rhizomatic Transnationalism: Nhạc Vàng and the Legacy of Republicanism in Overseas Vietnamese Communities 203
16. CHAPTER ELEVEN Ethnic Buddhism and Women in Hoa Pham’s Lady of the Realm and Chi Vu’s Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale 224
17. CHAPTER TWELVE Vietism: Human Rights, Carl Jung, and the New Vietnamese 245
18. Bibliography 273
19. Contributors 295
20. Index 299