Current Interests

Public memory and public history; the famine of 1945 in northern Vietnam as experience and memory; telling lives: biography and autobiography.

Selected Publications

• "Remembered Realms: Pierre Nora and French National Memory" in The American Historical Review
  (2001)
• The Country of Memory:Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (2001)
• "Representing the Past in Vietnamese Museums"
  in Curator (1998)
• "Monumental Ambiguity: the State Commemoration of Ho Chi Minh" in Essays into Vietnamese Pasts (1995)
• Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (1992)
• Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (1983)

 

 

Contact Info

Center for Government and International Studies-South Building

Room S127

1730 Cambridge Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

hhtai@fas.harvard.edu

617-495-5456

 

Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-4pm or by appointment