John K. Whitmore

Biography:
Cataloging Editor, Graduate Library, Coordinator, Vietnam Union Catalogue; Adjunct Associate professor in History; Research Affiliate, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, app’t 1979
B.A. Wesleyan University, 1962
M.A. Cornell University, 1965
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1968

Research/Teaching Specializations: Modern and pre-modern Vietnamese history, comparative Southeast Asian history

Courses Taught: Pre-modern Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Nations and Writing of their History

Field Research: France 3 years, Vietnam 2 years, Japan 1 year

Recent Publications: “Gender, State, History: the Literati Voice in Early Modern Vietnam,” in Other Pasts, Women and Gender in Early Modern Southeast Asia, ed. B.W. Andaya, Honolulu, HI, forthcoming; “Tim hieu ban chat Nho giao o Viet Nam (An inquiry into the nature of Vietnamese Confucianism),” Tap San Khoa Hoc Xa Hoi va Nhan Van (Annals of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities,) National University of Ho Chi Minh City, 1999; “Literati Culture and Integration in Dai Viet, c.1430-c.1840,” Modern Asian Studies, Volume 31(3), 1997; and in Beyond Binary Histories,Re-Imagining Eurasia to c.1830, ed. Victor Lieberman, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999; “Maps and Mapmaking in Vietnam,” in The Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, Dordrecht, 1997; Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts (ed. with K.W. Taylor) Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1995; Children of the Boat People, A Study of Educational Success, (with N. Caplan, M. Choy) Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1991.

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