TÁC GIẢ  VĨNH SÍNH



 EDUCATION:


1974 - 79: Ph.D. (Fall 1979) - Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. Dissertation's title: “The Thought of Tokutomi Soho, Journalist and Historian (1863 -1957)".
1972 - 74: M.A. (Fall 1974) - Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. Thesis' title: “A Study of the Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi: With Special Consideration of His Views of Asia and the West".
1970 - 72: Graduate Research Student, Institute of Social Science (Shakai Kagaku Kenkyujo), University of Tokyo.
1967 - 70: B.A. (Liberal Arts, March 1970). Tokyo International Christian University (ICU). Also acquired “Diploma of Teaching Japanese as a Second Language".
Languages: English, Japanese, Vietnamese, French, Korean, Chinese (reading).


 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:


April - Aug. 1998: Visiting Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
May - Aug. 1997: Japan Foundation Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto.
Feb. – April, 1997: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Hanoi National University.
1995-96: Named McCalla Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta.
July 1992 - : Full Professor , Department of History, University of Alberta.
May-July 1993: Japan Foundation Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo.
July 1987-June 1992: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Alberta.
June 1991: Visiting Professor, Meiji University, Japan.
May - July 1986: Japan Foundation Visiting Fellow, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo.
July 1983-June 1987: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Alberta.
Sept. 1982-Apr.1983: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Alberta.
Sept.1979-Apr. 1982: Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto.
Fall 1976: Visiting Scholar, Sophia University, Tokyo.
Oct.1973-Mar.1974: Teaching Assistant, Division of Extension, University of Toronto.
June1973-Sept.1973: Research Assistant (York University).

 

TEACHING:

a. Courses and seminars taught from Sept. 1982 (Department of History, University of Alberta):


HIST 280 - Asia to 1500 (participation/team-taught)
HIST 281 - Asia from 1500 (participation/team-taught)
HIST 220 - World History since the 18th century (participation/team-taught)
HIST 381 - Japan to 1868
HIST 382 - Japan's Modern Century
HIST 386 - Southeast Asia (1983-84)
HIST 484 - Topics in Vietnamese History
HIST 481 - Topics in Japanese History
HIST 580 - East Asia (bibliography)
HIST 680 - East Asia (research seminar)
HIST 602 - Historiography (participation - team-taught, 1986-87),
HIST 687 - Modern Japan and the World (research seminar)

b. Course taught from Sept. 1978 to Apr. 1982 (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto):

EAS 102 - HIST 280 - History and Civilization of China and Japan

c. Supervision of Honors Essay:


Krista Weiss, History and Classics (complete).
James Stone, History and Classics (complete).
Janina Strudwick, Anthropology (co-supervisor, incomplete)


d. Graduate Supervision:


Supervision committee member of the following:


M.A.: Ho-man Chan (History, complete)
Soon-joo Chia (History, complete)
Soo-hyang Choi (Educational Psychology, complete)
Shirley Roessler (History, complete)
K. Inui (Political Science, complete)
K. Higashida (East Asian Interdisciplinary Studies, incomplete)
Bohdan Horich (Political Science, complete)
Jianhong Li (History, complete)


Ph.D.: Soo-hyang Choi (Educational Psychology, complete)
Ernest LeVos (History, complete)
Xianguang Dai (History, complete)
Masami Iwasaki-Goodman (Anthropology, complete)
Shirley Roessler (History, complete)
Yifeng Zhao (History, complete)
Stewart Sutley (Political Science, complete)
Aya Fujiwara (History, in progress)

Supervisor:

Febe Pamonag (Ph.D., History, in progress, currently doing research for her doctoral dissertation in Japan)
Cybele Angela (M.A., History, in progress)
Tara Barnett (M.A., East Asian Interdisciplinary Studies, complete, currently working on her Ph.D. at UBC)
Ken Friend (Ph.D., History, incomplete, gained employment in Germany and left the program)

e. Participation in other courses at the University of Alberta (Guest lectures):

“Pre-modern Vietnam”, 3 lectures, HIST280, October 2001
“East Asia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries", (HIST 220, Nov. 5, 1996)
“East Asian Cultural Interactions During the Meiji Period” (Japan 426, Department of East Asian Studies, March 17, 1994)
“The Meiji Reforms” (HIST 120, Nov. 5, 1990)
“Patterns of Japanese Response to Foreign Challenge (HIST 498, Jan. 9, 1989)
“Different Interpretations of Japan’s Modernization” (HIST. 498, Mar. 9, 1987)
“Japan’s Christian Century, 1543-1638” (HIST 416, Jan. 15, 1987)
“Japan and the West in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries” (HIST 465, Feb. 5, 1986)
“Protocol and Linguistic Considerations in Doing Business or Interacting with Japan” (Faculty of Extension, Dec. 3, 1985)
“Patterns of Vietnamese Response to Foreign Challenges” (HIST 386, Nov. 20, 1985)
“Japan’s Response to the West in the Mid-nineteenth Century” (HIST. 498, Feb.11,1985)




 PUBLICATIONS:

a. Books:


Japan and Vietnam: Cultural Interactions (Van-Nghe and Centre for National Studies and Center for National Studies, Ho-Chi-Minh City, 2001).
Overturned Chariot: The Autobiography of Phan-Boi-Chau. An English translation from literary Chinese of Phan-Boi-Chau's (1863-1940), with an introduction and notes. University of Hawaii Press, 1999 (jointly with Dr. Nicholas Wickenden).
Records of Service in Annam. A Vietnamese translation of Chu Shun-shui's (1600-82) An-nan kung-yi chi-shih with an introduction and annotations. Hanoi: Society of Vietnamese Historians, 1999.
Hyôden Tokutomi Sohô (A Critical Biography of Tokutomi Sohô). Tokyo: Iwanami Publishers, 1994.
Oku no hosomichi. A Vietnamese translation of Matsuo Bashô's Oku no hosomichi, with introduction and notes. Hanoi: The Gioi Publishing House, 1999.
Japan and Vietnam in the Context of East Asia. HoChiMinh City: University of Education, 1993.
Canada and the Changing Vietnam, 1986-1993. Toronto: Canada-ASEAN Centre, 1993.
The Rise of Modern Japan. HochiMinh City: University of Education, 1992.
The Future Japan (University of Alberta Press, 1989). Translation, with an introduction and annotations, of Tokutomi Sohô's book Shôrai no Nihon (1886). Translator and co-editor (other co-editors are Prof. Matsuzawa Hiroaki and Nicholas Wickenden).
Phan-Bôi-Châu and the Dông-Du Movement (Yale Center for International and Area Studies, co-published with William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston; 1988). Editor and contributor.
Tokutomi Sohô: The Later Career. Toronto: University of Toronto - York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, 1986).

a. Chapters in books, articles in refereed journals, and printed conference proceedings:

“Phan-Chau-Trinh (1870-1926) and His Perception of Popular Rights in Vietnam”, in F. Mantienne and F. Souty, eds. Essays in Honour of Professor Nguyen-The-Anh. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2004, pp. 423-445.
“Tokutomi Soho and Imperial Japan’s Destiny”. Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry, vol. 21, May/June 2002, pp. 46-49.
“Phan-Chau-Trinh and His Interpretation of Confucianism” in Confucianism in Vietnam, ed. by Vietnam National University. A collection of papers presented at the Third International Conference on “Confucianism in Vietnam, July 19 –21, 2001, HoChiMinh City, organized by the HoChiMinh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities in collaboration with Harvard--Yenching Institute, Harvard University (HoChiMinh City Publishing House, 2002), pp. 183-215.
“Komatsu Kiyoshi and French Indochina”. Moussons, no. 3, June 2002, pp. 57-86.
“’National Studies’ in Japan”, in Ban sac dan toc trong van hoa – van nghe (National Characteristics in Culture and Arts) (Hanoi and HoChiMinh City: Co-published by the Van-Nghe Publishing House and Center for National Culture Studies, 2001), pp. 206-217.
"Shibusawa Ei'ichi's Role in the Modernization Movement in East Asia". The Journal of Shibusawa Studies (Shibusawa Kenkyû), (October 2000), pp. 64-68.
"Komatsu Kiyoshi Betonamu dokuritsu e no mihatenu yume” (Komatsu Kiyoshi -- A Dream for Vietnam's Independence That Was Never Fulfilled). Sekai, April 2000, pp. 275-285; May 2000, pp. 264-282.
"Hanh trinh dan toc trong the ky XX: Thu nhin lai vi tri cua Phan Boi Chau" (An Assessment of the Role of Phan Boi Chau in the Twentieth-century Vietnam). Dien Dan Forum, no. 89 (November 1999), pp. 16-19.
"Vai y kien dong gop vao viec tim hieu va danh gia Nguyen Truong To" (Contribution to a Fuller Understanding and Assessment of Nguyen Truong To), in Le Trong Van, ed. Nguyen Truong To: Con nguoi va su that (Nguyen Truong To: The Truth About the Man). 1998, pp. 17-46. (reprint)
"Tu lieu moi ve Pham Hong Thai va tieng bom Sa Dien" (Newly-discovered Materials on Pham Hong Thai and the Samien Incident [in 1924]). Lich su, su that, va su hoc (History, Facts, and Historical Science). Hanoi and Ho-Chi-Minh City: Jointly published by the Journal of Past & Present and the Tre Publishers, 2000, pp. 183-194. (reprint)
"Nguon goc va y nghia tac pham Giai nhan ky ngo dien ca" (The Origins and the Significance of [Phan Chau Trinh's] Giai nhan ky ngo dien ca). Lich su, su that, va su hoc (History, Facts, and Historical Science). Hanoi and Ho-Chi-Minh City: Jointly published by the journal Past & Present and Tre Publishers, 2000, pp. 221-228. (reprint)
“Van hoa va con nguoi Viet Nam duoi cap mat cua Shiba Ryôtarô, 1923-1996" (The Vietnamese and Their Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of Shiba Ryôtarô, 1923 - 1996), Proceedings of the Conference on Japan-Vietnam Relations, 1954-75, 14 ms. pp. (in press).
“Tu lieu moi ve viec sang Nhat cua Le Quoc Vong, 1931-33" (Newly-discovered materials on Le Quoc Vong’s Sojourns in Japan, 1931-33). Xua & Nay’s (Past & Present), November, 1999, pp. 10-13.
“Suminokura Ryôi and Yoichi: The First Japanese Traders in Vietnam,” Saigon Economic Times, February 2000, pp. 46-47.
“Nguyen-Truong-To and the Quest for Modernization in Vietnam”. The Japan Review (Bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto), 1999, pp. 55-74.
"Some Thoughts on the Interactions Between the Koreans and the Vietnamese", in Kang Shin-pyo et al., eds. The New Millennium Smile: Inheritance - Harmony - Creation. Kyongju: '98 Kyongju World Culture EXPO Organizing Committee, 1999, pp. 385-395. Following is a Korean-language version of this article: "Hanguku kwa Wollam gan ui sangho kyoyu e tae han kochal", in Kang Shin-pyo et. al., eds. Sae chonnyon ui miso: Ch'onsung - Yunghwa - Ch'angcho. Kyongju: '98 Kyongju Sahe Moonhwa EXPO Choshik Eewonhae, pp. 449-455.
"Mémoires de Chu Thuan Thuy (1600-1682): Un Chinois au Vietnam au milieu du XVIIe siecle", Xua & Nay (Past & Present), no. 57 (November, 1998), pp.3-4. "Nguyen-Truong-To and the Quest for Modernization in Vietnam". Japan Review, 1999, 11, pp. 55-74. A revised version of an article previously credited.
“The Significance of Chinese Characters in the Present-day Vietnam”. Xua & Nay (Past & Present), published by the Society of Vietnamese Historians, no. 49. vol. 3 (1998), pp. 29-30.
"Nguon goc va y nghia cua Giai nhan ky ngo dien ca" (The Genesis and Significance of Phan-Chau-Trinh's Giai nhan ky ngo dien ca), Dien Dan Forum, no. 79 (Nov. 1998), pp. 22-24.
"Thien ky 3 dang mim cuoi -- Nhat ky mot chuyen di du hoi nghi o Han Quoc" (Report on the Conference "The New Millenium Smile" in Korea), Dien Dan Forum, no. 82 (Feb. 1999), pp. 17-20, 24.
"Van hoa va con nguoi Viet Nam duoi cap mat cua Shiba Ryotaro, 1923-1996" (The Vietnamese and Their Culture as Seen through the Eyes of Shiba Ryotaro, 1923-1996), Proceedings of the Conference on Japan-Vietnam Relations, 1954-75, 14 ms. pp (in press).
"Tokutomi Soho (1863-1957)" in James L. Huffman, ed. Modern Japan -- An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism (New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1998), pp. 267-68.
"Meiji Japan: A Cultural Crossroads for Asia and the West". Nichibunken Newsletter, July 1998, p. 5.
" L'axe d'echange culturel du Japon, de la Chine et du Vietnam -- Comment les mots d'origine Japonaise entrent-ils dans la langue de Han-Viet?). Revue des Informations Scientifiques et Technologiques, pp. 94-113.
"Minh than Chu Thuan-Thuy (1600-82) o Viet Nam va Nhat Ban" (Chu Shun-shui: A Seventeenth-century Chinese Scholar in Vietnam and Japan). Dien Dan Forum, no. 71 (Feb. 1998), pp. 25-28.
“Japan and Vietnam: From Wartime Occupation to Postwar Relations", in Gerhard Krebs and Christian Oberlander, eds. 1945 in Europe and Asia. MŸnchen: Iudicium Verlag, 1997, pp. 369-382.
"Phan-Boi-Chau and His Autobiography". The Vietnam Review, no. 1 (Autumn-Winter 1996), pp. 194-219 (jointly with Dr. Nicholas Wickenden).
Contribution to Further Understanding of Pham Hong Thai and the Shamien Incident). Nghien cuu lich su (Historical Studies), 2/291 (March-April 1997), pp. 7-15.
“Hanoi no haru” (Spring in Hanoi) in Kokusai koryû (Published by The Japan Foundation), no. 78 (January 1998), pp. 96-101.
“Chinese Characters as the Medium for Transmitting the Vocabulary of Modernization from Japan to Vietnam in Early Twentieth Century", in Charles Le Blanc, ed., La Société civile en Asie de l'Est (Montréal: Centre d'étude de l'Asie de l'Est, Université de Montréal, 1996), pp. 313-332.
A Japanese Author Writing on Nguyen-Ai-Quôc). Xua & Nay (Past & Present), March 1996, pp. 13-15; April 1996, pp. 17-19; May 1996, pp. 19-21. (R)
“On the Relationship Between Phan-Boi-Chau and Nguyen-Ai-Quoc: Based on Newly-Discovered Materials". Nghien cuu lich su (Historical Studies, 3/292 (May & June 1997), pp. 44-51.
“Nguyên-Truong-Tô and the Quest for Modernization in Vietnam". The Vietnam Review, no. 2 (Spring - Summer 1997), pp. 173-190.
“Meijikini tsukurareta Waseikango no Betonamugoka" (The Vietnamese Adaptation of the New Terms Created in Meiji Japan to Render Western Ideas). Proceedings of the Kyoto International Conference on Japanese Studies , 17-21 October, 1994, vol. III, pp. 195-206.
“Tokutomi Sohô Taisengo no sekai to Nihon no eiyakuhon to eibun shohyô” ( The Reaction of the English Media to Tokutomi Sohô’s book Japan and the World After World War I ). Nihon rekishi (Journal of Japanese History), no. 569 (October 1995), pp. 199-208.
“University Education in Vietnam on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century: Some Observations Based on Japan and China’s Experiences”. Proceedings of the International Conference on University Education in Vietnam, February 1994, pp. 137-145.
“Quan niem ve doc lap quoc gia cua Viet Nam va Nhat Ban: Truong hop cua Phan-Boi-Chau va Fukuzawa Yukichi" (Perceptions of National Independence in Vietnam and Japan: The Cases of Phan-Boi-Chau and Fukuzawa Yukichi). Nghien cuu lich su (Journal of Historical Studies), no. 6, 1992, pp. 17-34.
“The Place of Tân-thu (New Books) in the Transmission of Modern Ideas from Japan to Vietnam at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century”. Proceedings of the Conference on Research and Teaching of Southeast Asian History, HochiMinh City University of Education, June 6, 1992, pp. 94-103.
“Doc sach: Công trinh nghiên cuu cua môt hoc gia Nhât Ban ve chinh sach dân tôc o Viêt Nam" [The Work of a Japanese Scholar on Vietnam’s Ethnic Policy: A Review Article of Furuta Motoo’s Research Works]. Nghiên cuu lich su [Journal of Historical Studies], no. 2, 1992, pp. 87-94.
“Did Nguyên-Truong-Tô Actually Meet Itô Hirobumi”. Nguyen-Truong-To voi van de canh tan dat nuoc (Nguyen-Truong-To and the Question of Modernization, Proceedings of the Conference on Nguyên-Truong-To, Ho-Chi-Minh City Historical Society, October 1991), pp. 343-347.
“Canada and Japan: What Can They Learn From Each Other?". Reports of Serial Lectures on Canadian Studies , Center for International Programs, Meiji University, 1991, pp. 27-29.
“A Re-assessment of Nguyên-Truong-Tô’s Place in Vietnam of the Mid-nineteenth Century”. Proceedings of the Conference on Nguyen-Truong-Tô, HochiMinh City Historical Society , October 1991, 28 ms. pp. (forthcoming).
“Nihon to Betonamu no tai-Chûgoku taido no hikaku [A Comparison of Japanese and Vietnamese Attitudes toward China]. Seiji Kenkyûkai Kaihô [Bulletin of the Society of Political Studies, Hokkaidô University], March 1990, pp. 3-4.
“'Elegant Females' Re-encountered: From Tôkai Sanshi's Kajin no kigû to Phan-Châu-Trinh's Giai-nhân ky-ngô diên-ca" in K. W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore, eds. Essays into Vietnamese Pasts. Ithaca: Southeast Asian Program, Cornell University, 1994, pp. 195-206.
“Introduction" (with H. Matsuzawa and N. Wickenden) in The Future Japan , loc. cit., pp. xiii-xxxiii.
“Phan-Bôi-Châu and Asaba Sakitarô". Nghiên cuu lich su [Journal of Historical Studies], no. 6, 1990.
“Japanese and Vietnamese Attitudes toward China: A Comparison". Asian and Pacific Quarterly , Vol. XXI, No. 2 (Autumn 1989), pp. 1-13.
“Phan-Bôi-Châu and Fukuzawa Yukichi: Perceptions of National Independence", in S. Vinh, ed. Phan-Bôi-Châu and the Dông-Du Movement , loc. cit., pp. 101-149.
“Phan-Bôi-Châu and the Dông-Du Movement: A Selected Bibliography", in S. Vinh, ed. Phan-Bôi -Châu and the Dông-Du Movement , loc. cit., pp. 193-213.
“Meiji Nihon to sono kokusai kankyô – Fukuzawa Yukichi no Ajia-kan" [Meiji Japan and the International Environment: Fukuzawa Yukichi's Views of Asia and the West]. Kindai Nihon Kenkyû [Studies on Modern Japan] published by Fukuzawa Yukichi Memorial Center (Keiô Gijuku University), vol III (1986), pp. 113-161.
“Formation and Collapse of the Meiji Constitutional System". Japanese Studies Center News (Japan Foundation), vol. XI, no. 3 (1986), pp. 3-4.
“Meiji shisôka no sokumen-kan" [Aspects of Meiji Intellectual History]. Nakae Chômin Zenshû [Complete Works of Nakae Chômin], vol. 17, Geppô (1986), pp. 4-8.
“Research and Teaching of Japanese History in Canadian Universities". Canadian Journal of Development Studies (May 1986), pp. 85-93. Reprinted as “La recherche et l'enseignement de l'histoire du Japon dans les universités canadiennes", in José Havet, ed. L'Etude du developpement international au Canada. Montréal: L'Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences, 1987), pp. 77-90.
“Japan and Vietnam: Some Preliminary Thoughts about Their Interactions".The Vietnam Forum (Yale Southeast Asian Studies), Summer-Fall, 1986, pp. 151-72.
“The Meirokusha Re-visited". Proceedings of the Sixth German Conference of Japanologists , Cologne, April 12-14, 1984, pp. 282-300.
“Herbert Spencer and Tokutomi Sohô's The Future Japan". Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Asia , Hong Kong, 16th-19th July, 1984, pp. 809-816.
“On Departure from Asia". Translation of Fukuzawa Yukichi's “Datsuaron". Fukuzawa Yukichi Nenkan [Fukuzawa Yukichi's Annual Review], Vol. 11 (1984), pp. 253-56.
“Aspects of Japan-Vietnam Relations" in Yamamoto Tatsurô, ed., Proceedings of the Thirty-first International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa , Tokyo-Kyoto, 31st August - 7th September, 1983, Vol. II, pp. 833-35.
“The Meirokusha and the Japanese Enlightenment". Asian Thought and Society, Vol. IX, Nos. 26-27 (July-Nov. 1984), pp. 164-76.
“Kanada ni okeru Nihonshi kenkyû dôkô" [Current Research on Japanese History in Canada]. Rekishigaku Kenkyû [Journal of Historical Studies], No. 518 (July 1983), pp. 40-45.
“Meiji chishikijin to konnichi no Nihon" [Meiji Intellectuals and Japan of the Present-day]. Min'yû, No. 204 (Nov. 1982), pp. 10-11; No. 205 (Dec. 1982), pp. 10-11; No. 206 (Jan. 1983), pp. 10-11; No. 207 (Feb. 1983), pp. 10-11; No. 208 (Mar. 1983), pp. 20-21; No. 209 (Apr. 1983), pp. 10-11.
“Tokutomi Sohô: The Accomplishment of a Nationalist Historian" in John S. Brownlee, ed., History in the Service of the Japanese Nation. Toronto: University of Toronto -- York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, 1983, pp. 121-164.
“Japan in the World of the 1980's -- Viewed from a Historical Perspective", in the Fukuoka UNESCO Association, ed., Papers Presented at the Fifth Kyushu International Conference, 1982, pp. A3-1 - A3-11 (English); A3-1 - A3-10 (Japanese).

d. Reviews:

Review of Douglas R. Howland’s Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth- Century Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002). Pacific Affairs, vol. 75, no. 3 (Fall 2002), pp. 470-472.
Review of Tessa Morris-Suzuki, The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Canadian Journal of History (forthcoming), 5 ms. pp.
Review of Fumiko Fujita, American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-century Japan (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994). Canadian Journal of History , XXX, April 1995, pp. 173-175.
Review of Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian, eds. Japan in the World (Durham, S.C.: Duke University Press, 1993). Canadian Journal of History , XXIX, 3 (December 1994), pp. 614-615.
Review of Delmer Brown, ed. Cambridge History of Japanese History, vol. 1: Ancient Japan. Canadian Journal of History , XXIX (Aug. 1994), pp. 435-437.
Review of Edward Seidensticker, Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991). Urban History Review , XXI, 2 (March 1993), pp. 133-134.
Review of Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, eds., Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945 (Pittsburg, Penn.: University of Pittsburg Press, 1991). Canadian Journal of History, XXVII, April 1992, pp. 166-168.
Review of The Cross and the Rising Sun : The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1872-1931 (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1990). Canadian Journal of History , XXVI, December 1991, pp. 556-557.
Review of The Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 3: Medieval Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Canadian Journal of History , August 1991, pp. 361-63.
Review of Mutual Hostages: Canadian and Japanese during the Second World War, by Patricia Roy et al. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990). Edmonton Journal , July 8, 1990, p. A9.
Review of The Endless War: Vietnam's Struggle for Independence, by James P. Harrison (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989). Canadian Journal of History , XXV, Aug. 1990, pp. 308-310.
Review of The Limits of Air Power : The American Bombing of North Vietnam, by Mark Clodfelter (New York: The Free Press, 1989). Canadian Journal of History , XXV, Aug. 1990, pp. 308-310.
Review of State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis by Andrew E. Barshay (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988). History : Review of New Books , vol. 18, no. 1 (Fall 1989), pp. 31-32.
Review of Shogunal Politics: Arai Hakuseki and the Premises of Tokugawa Rule , by Kate Nakai (Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1988). Canadian Journal of History , XXIV, Aug. 1989, pp. 246-247.
Review of Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965-1975, by Thomas Havens (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987). Canadian Journal of History, XXIII, 2 (Aug. 1988), pp. 302-303.
Review of Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955 by Andrew Gordon (Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1985). Labour / Le Travail , no. 21 (Spring 1988), pp. 326-328.
Review of Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan , by Germaine A. Hoston (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986). Canadian Journal of History , vol. XXIII. no. 1 (Apr. 1988), pp. 147-148.
Review of The Fracture of Meaning: Japan's Synthesis of China from the Eighth through the Eighteenth Centuries , by David Pollack (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986). Canadian Journal of History , vol. XXII, no. 3 (Dec. 1987), pp. 406-407.
Review of Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia (2 vols.), by David Coox (Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1985). Canadian Journal of History , vol. XXII (Aug. 1987), pp. 289-290.
Review of Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870-1940 by Richard J. Smerthurst (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986). Canadian Journal of History , vol. XXII, no. 3 (Dec. 1987), pp. 432-433.
Review of Japan's Modern Myth: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period, by Carol Gluck (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985). Canadian Journal of History , XXI, 3 (Dec. 1986), pp. 459-461.
Review of Nihon bunka no kakureta kata [Archetypes of Japanese Culture], ed. by Takeda Kiyoko (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1984). Monumenta Nipponica , vol. 41, no. 1 (Spring 1986), pp. 122-124.
Review of Theatres of Accumulation: Studies in Asian and Latin American Urbanization , by Warwick Armstrong and T.G. McGee (London: Methuen, 1985). Urban History Review , vol. XV (Oct . 1986), pp. 219-220.
Review of Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki , trans. by Joyce Ackroyd (Princeton & Tokyo: Princeton University Press & University of Tokyo Press, 1979). Asia Thought & Society , vol. X, no. 30 (Dec. 1985), pp. 221-222.
Review of E.H. Norman: Life and Scholarship, ed. by Roger W. Bowen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984). Canadian Journal of History , vol. XXI, no. 2 (Aug. 1986).
Review of The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945, edited by Ramon H. Myers and Mark P. Peattie (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984). Canadian Journal of History , vol. XX. no. 1 (Mar. 1985), pp. 153-155.
Review of The China Quagmire: Japan's Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933-1941 , ed. by James W. Morley (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983). Canadian Journal of History , Dec. 1984, pp. 475-476.
Review of The Politics of Canadian-Japanese Economic Relations, 1952-1983 by Frank Langdon (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983). Revue (Canadian Asian Studies Association), Sept. 1983, pp. 9-10.
Review of In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo, A Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan , by Robert L. Danly (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981). Pacific Affairs , Fall 1982, pp. 323-324.
Review of The Self-made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salary Man, by Earl H. Kinmonth (California: University of California Press, 1981). Canadian Journal of History , vol. XVIII, no. 3 (Dec. 1982), pp. 559-561.
Review of Japan and Its World: Two Centuries of Change, by Marius B. Jansen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980). Canadian Journal of History , vol. XVI, no. 3 (1981), pp. 498-500.
Review of A Discourse on Government: Nakae Chômin and His Sansuijin Keirin Mondô, trans. with an introduction by Margaret Dardess (Wellingham: Western Washington State College, 1977). Pacific Affairs , vol. 51 no. 2 (Summer 1978), pp. 352-353.

 

e. Reviews of my publications:

Review of Overturned Chariot: The Autobiography of Phan Boi Chau. Translated by Vinh Sinh and Nicholas Wickenden (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999). Sojourn, vol. 36, no. 2 (October 2001), pp. 348-350.
Review of Overturned Chariot: The Autobiography of Phan Boi Chau. Translated by Vinh Sinh and Nicholas Wickenden (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999). Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 38, no. 1 (June 2000), pp. 114- 115.
Review of Overturned Chariot: The Autobiography of Phan Boi Chau. Translated by Vinh Sinh and Nicholas Wickenden (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999). Choice, ......
Review of Viet Nam va Nhat Ban: Giao luu van hoa (Vietnam and Japan: Cultural Interactions ) by VINH Sinh in Dien Dan Forum, no. 118 (May 2002), pp. 28-29.
Review of Overturned Chariot: The Autobiography of Phan Boi Chau. Translated by Vinh Sinh and Nicholas Wickenden (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999).
Asahi Shinbun, October 9, 1994, p. 17 (by Prof. Sugihara Mitsunobu of the University of Tokyo).
Gaikô Forum, December 1994, p. 97 (by Prof. Sakamoto Takao of Gakushûin University).
Sankei Shinbun (Osaka), September 20, 1994 (by Prof. Tsutsui Kiyotada of Kyoto University).
Kanagawa Shinbun, September 11, 1994.
Shûkan Dokushojin, October 7, 1994 (by Prof. Ariyama Teruo of Seijô Gakuen University).
Kumamoto Nichinichi Shinbun, October 3, 1994 (by Prof. Yamamuro Shin’ichi of Kyoto University).
Signature, October 1994.
Shakai Kagaku Jânaru, vol. 30 (2), November 1991, pp. 127-132 (by Prof. Chiba Shin of Tokyo International Christian University).
Pacific Affairs, vol. 64, no. 3 (Fall 1991), pp. 407-409 (by Prof. Marius Jansen of Princeton University).
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , vol. LV, part 1 (Feb. 1992).
Canadian Journal of History , XXV (Dec. 1990), pp. 458-59.
University Press Books Quarterly , vol. 2 (1991), p. 22.
Choice , Fall 1990, pp. 390-91.
University Press Books Quarterly , v. 2 (June 1990), p. 22.
Monumenta Nipponica , Fall 1990, pp. 375-76.
Books in Review / Critiques de livres , vol. 8, no. 3 (1991), p. 44.
Nghien-cuu lich-su (Historical Studies), no. 3 (1991), pp. 87-89.
Canadian Materials , May 1990, p. 146.
Pacific Affairs , Spring 1990, pp. 119-20.
Min'yû , December 1986.
Journal of Asian Studies , vol .44, no. 2 (Feb. 1985), pp. 394-95.
Monumenta Nipponica , vol. 39, no. 2 (Summer 1984), p. 171.
Asian Thought & Society , July- Nov. 1984, pp. 225-26.
Edmonton Journal , Aug. 7, 1990.
Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon), Aug. 25, 1990.

OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY:
a. Advisory Board, Canadian Journal of History.

b. Assessments of manuscripts:

Referee: - SSHRC Research Grant applications;
- Aids for Scholarly Publications.
- Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l'aide * la recherche (Québec), Research grant application.
External referee for tenure and promotion hearings on numerous occasions.

Reader: - Canadian Journal of History , 10.
- Canadian Ethnic Studies , 1.
- Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1.
- University of Hawaii Press, 1.
- University of British Columbia Press and University of Tokyo Press, 1.

b.Major conference & seminar presentations:

“Japan as a Mediator of Civilizations”. Paper presented at the International Symposium on “Globalization, Localization, and Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region”, University of Sydney, November 10 to 13, 2003.
“Shiba Ryotaro and the Revival of Meiji Values”. Keynote lecture at the International Conference on “Historical Consciousness, Historiography, and Modern Japanese Values”, Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, October 30 to November 3, 2002.
“Teaching Japanese History in Canadian Schools”, lecture given at the Calgary City Teachers’ Convention, February 15, 2002.
“Chinese Characters as the Medium for Transmitting the Vocabulary of Modernization from Japan to Vietnam in the Early Twentieth Century”, public lecture given at the Southeast Asia Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, January 18, 2001.
“Komatsu Kiyoshi (1900-62) and French Indochina”, public lecture given at the Japan Studies Program, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, January 19, 2001.
“The Japanese Occupation of French Indochina, 1941-45”, lecture given to HIST300 (Twentieth-century Vietnamese History), University of Washington, January 17, 2001.
“The Japanese Views of Contemporary Vietnam”, public lecture given at the Vietnam Asia Pacific Economic Center in Ho-Chi-Minh City (VALPEC), April 19, 2001.
“Phan-Chau-Trinh and Confucianism”, paper presented at “The Third International Conference on Confucianism in Vietnam” sponsored by the Ho-Chi-Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, 19-21 July 2001, Ho-Chi-Minh City.
Chair of the panel on “Confucianism in the Present-day Vietnam” at “The Third International Conference on Confucianism in Vietnam” sponsored by the Ho-Chi-Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, 19-21 July 2001, Ho-Chi-Minh City.
"Phan Chau Trinh (1872-1926) and His Place in Modern Vietnam". Paper presented at the Conference on Vietnamese Studies at the Centre for Vietnamese Studies, Ho-Chi-Minh City, on May 1, 2000.
"The Vietnamese and Their Culture Under the Eyes of Shiba Ryôtarô (1923-1996)". Paper presented at the Conference on Japan-Vietnam Relations, 1954-75, Ho-Chi-Minh City, April 28-29, 1999.
"Suminokura Ryôi and Yoichi: Japanese Traders in Vietnam in the Seventeenth Century". A public lecture given at the Forum of the VAPEC (Vietnam - Asia Pacific Economic Committee) and the Saigon Economic Times, May 3, 1999.
"Japanese Modernization Re-visited". A lecture given at the Institute for Vietnamese Studies, May 5, 1999.
"Some Basic Features of Japanese Culture and Vietnamese Culture". A public lecture given at the Vietnamese Association of Historians, Ho-Chi-Minh City, May 17, 1999.
“Komatsu Kiyoshi no Futsuryô Indoshina taiken" (Komatsu Kiyoshi's Experiences in French Indochina). Symposium on “Kindai Nihonjin no kaigai taiken" (Overseas Experiences by the Japanese in the Modern Period), International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, July 19, 1996.
“The Role of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931) in Modern Japan". A seminar given at the Institute for Japanese Studies, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 9, 1997.
“Intellectual Trends in Modern Japan". A seminar given at the Institute for Japanese Studies, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 11, 1997.
“Confucianism in China, Japan, and Vietnam: A Comparison". A seminar presented at the Institute for Philosophical Research, Hanoi, April 17, 1997.
“Education in Vietnam: Challenges and Opportunities". A paper presented at the Conference on Education and Technology (Hosted by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology, March 29, 1997.
“Komatsu Kiyoshi and French Indochina". The 31st Meeting of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference (ASPAC), Edmonton, June 20-22, 1996.
“Nguyen-Truong-To and the Quest for Modernization in Vietnam". Symposium on “Leaders of Modernization in East Asia", International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, January 12-13, 1996.
“Japan and Vietnam: From Wartime Occupation to Post-war Relations". International Symposium on “1945 in Europe and Asia: Reconsidering the End of World War II and the Change of World Order", Berlin, April 5-7, 1995.
“Spreading the Ideas and Vocabulary of Modernization: The Cultural Interactions between Meiji Japan and East Asia". Invited lecture at the Symposium “Three Lectures on the Humanities", University of Toronto, May 5, 1995.
“Meiji ni tsukurareta Wasei-kango no Betonamugo-ka" (The Vietnamese Adaptation of the New Terms Created in Meiji Japan to Render Western Ideas). Kyoto International Conference on Japanese Studies, October 17-21, 1994.
“Some Observations on the Autobiography of Phan-Boi-Chau” (with Nicholas Wickenden). Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies 21st Annual Conference, University of Alberta, October 17, 1993.
“Canada and the Changing Vietnam, 1986-1993”. Paper presented at the Symposium on “New Policy Challenges for ASEAN: Canadian Perspectives”. Ottawa, March 7, 1994.
“University Education in Vietnam on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century: Some Observations Based on Japan and China’s Experiences”. Ho-Chi-Minh City, February 17, 1994.
“Higashi Ajia sekai no naka no Nihon to Betonamu" (Japan and Vietnam in the Context of East Asia). Faculty Seminar, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, July 1, 1993.
“Vietnam's Cultural Relations with China and Japan in the Early Twentieth Century". Paper presented at Vien Han Nôm (Institute for the Study of Chinese and Demotic Scripts and Cultures). Ho-Chi-Minh City, April 16, 1993.
“ ‘Elegant Females Re-encountered': From Tôkai Sanshi's Kajin no kigû to Phan-Châu-Trinh's Giai-nhan ky-ngo dien-ca". Paper presented to the Symposium on Historical Texts, Cornell University, July 19-21, 1991. Invited paper.
“Canada and Japan: What Can They Learn from Each Other". Meiji University, June 3 and 10, 1991. Invited lectures.
“Rekishi no tanjô: Nakae Chômin" [The Beginning of Modern Japanese History: Nakae Chômin], NHK [Japan Broadcast Society] Television, 45 minute programme, April 17, 1990.
“Nihon to Betonamu no tai-Chûgoku taido no hikaku" [Japanese and Vietnamese Attitudes Toward China]. Faculty of Law, Hokkaidô University, July 6, 1989. Invited lecture.
“Nihon-Betonamu kankeishi ni tsuite no ichishiron" [Japan-Vietnam Relations: Viewed from a Historical Perspective]. Faculty of Law, Hokkaidô University, July 7, 1989.
“Asia in the 1990's". Panelist in conferences and seminars held at the following institutions: Institute for Strategic Studies, Chulalongkhorn University (Bangkok, Apr. 26, 1988), Embassy of Canada in Thailand (Bangkok, Apr. 25, 1988), Institute of International Relations (Hanoi, Apr. 28, 1988), Institute of Social Sciences (Hanoi, Apr. 29, 1988), Centre of Information Science (Hanoi, Apr. 30, 1988), Institute of Social Sciences (Ho-Chi-Minh City; Apr. 30, 1988).
“Research and Teaching of Japanese History in Canadian Universities". Paper presented to the First Conference of International Development Studies, Montreal, May 27-28, 1985. Invited paper.
“Herbert Spencer and Tokutomi Sohô's The Future Japan ". Paper presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Asian Studies, Hong Kong, July 16-19, 1984. Invited paper.
“The Meirokusha Re-visited". Paper presented at the Sixth German Conference of Japanologists, Cologne, April 12-14, 1984. Invited paper.
“Aspects of Japan-Vietnam Relations”. Paper presented at the Thirty-first International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa, Tokyo- Kyoto, 31st August - 7th September, 1983.
“Japan and the World of the 1980's -- Viewed from a Historical Perspectives". Paper presented to the Fifth Kyushû International Conference, 1982. Sponsored by the Fukuoka UNESCO Association. Invited paper.

 ADMINISTRATION:

- Teaching Committee, Department of History and Classics, 1999-
- Advisory Board, Canadian Journal of History (January 1990 - ).
- Member of the Adjunct Council, East Asian Studies Committee (1993- )
- Member of the Teaching Committee, Department of History and Classics (Sept. 1994 - )
- Chair, East Asian Studies Committee, Faculty of Arts (July1990 - 1992) and advisor for some 35 students in the East Asian Studies Program.
- Organizer of the Symposium “Alberta - Heilongjiang: The Benefits of An Educational Partnership”, Edmonton, October, 1991.
- Departmental Representative (1984 - 85)
- History Asianist Co-ordinator (1987 - 88, 1990 - 91, 1992)
- Member: East Asian Studies Committee (1983 - June1989)
- History Graduate Studies Committee (1983 - 84; 1987 - 88)
- History Computer Committee (1984 - 89)
- Selection Committee for Japanese position in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (1985).
 

HONOURS AND AWARDS:
a. Awards & Honours:

- Recipient of the Canada-ASEAN Southeast Asia Policy Paper Award, 1993.
- Recipient of the Canada Council’s Canada-Japan Book Award, 1990.
- Recipient of the Tokutomi Soho Society Award, 1990.
- Inclusion in the Canadian Who’s Who, 1991- Present.

b. Research grants:

- Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSHRC) Research Grant, 2000-2003.
- Travel Grant, Central Research Fund, University of Alberta, Summer 1999.
- Travel Grant, Central Research Fund, University of Alberta, Summer 1998 (to present a paper at the First International Conference on Vietnamese Studies, Hanoi).
- Japan Foundation Fellowship (Visiting Fellow at the Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyû Centâ, Kyoto), May-August 1997.
- Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSHRC) Research Grant, 1989-1990, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1991-1993, 1993-94, 1994-95. 1997.
- Travel Grant, Central Research Fund, February 1994 (to present a paper at the International Conference on University Education Reform in Vietnam).
- Japan Foundation Fellowship (Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo), May-July 1993.
- Release time (half course), Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Faculty of Arts, 1990-91.
Publication Grant, Suntory Foundation, 1992 (for the publication of The Rise of Modern Japan )
- Publication grant, Aids for Scholarly Publication (SSHRC), 1989 (for the publication of The Future Japan ).
- Travel grant, Central Research Fund, University of Alberta, March 1990.
- Travel grant, Universities Co-ordinating Council (Alberta), 1989.
- Stanford East Asian National Resource Center Grant, April 1989.
- Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS) Grant (to travel to Thailand and Vietnam as a member of the Canadian Academic Delegation, April - May, 1988.
- Release Time (half course), Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, 1987-88.
- Travel grant, Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, October 1987.
- Japan Foundation Fellowship (Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo), May - July 1986.
- Travel and equipment grant, Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, May 1985.
- Operating grant (transportation), Central Research Fund, University of Alberta, July 1985.
- Travel grant, SSHRC (to present a paper at the Sixth International Symposium on Asian Studies, Hong Kong, July 1984].
- Travel grant, Central Research Fund, University of Alberta (to present a paper at the Sixth German Conference of Japanologists, Cologne, April 1984).
- Travel grant, Central Research Fund, University of Alberta (to present a paper at the Thirty-first International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa, Tokyo - Kyoto, Aug. - Sept. 1983).

c. Undergraduate & Graduate Fellowships:

- The Canada Council, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1978-79.
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1974-75.
- Ontario Graduate Fellowship, 1973-74.
- Ministry of Education Scholarship (Mombushô ), Government of Japan, 1963-67.



 PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

- Worked as a member of the Interview Committee assisting the Consulate-General of Japan in Edmonton in selecting Canadian candidates for the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Program, from 1998-2002.
- Participation in “Projet de conservation et de recherche sur les registres généalogiques du Vietnam”, University of Hanoi, University of Alberta (Faculté St. Jean), and Université Paris 7.
- Review of translation into Vietnamese for the Library of Congress, December 2001.
- A good number of students from my Japanese history classes have been selected to join the JET Program in the last 15 years.
- Assisting the Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo) in its series of articles on “The Twentieth Century”. Acknowledged in Yomiuri Shimbun, January 11, 1999, p. 11.
- Interviewed by the Mainichi Newspaper (Tokyo), July 4, 1998.
- Interviewed by the Yomiuri Newspaper (Japan), September 25, 1998.
- Asked by the Department of Japanese Studies (Nihon Kenkyubu) of the Japan Foundation (Tokyo Head Office) to make recommendations on the development of Japanese Studies in Vietnam, Summer 1997.
- Interviewed by the VTV3 (Vietnam Television, Education Channel) on March 15, 1997. The 90 minute program was broadcast on March 29, 1997.
- Interpreter (volunteer) for the Embassy of Canada in Vietnam (Hanoi) in a workshop funded by the CIDA, April 4, 1997.
- Invited by the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Hanoi, to give a 3-hour seminar to his academic and administrative staff on educational issues in Canada, Japan, and Vietnam, April 16, 1997.
- Interviewed by the ETV (Education Television) of the Japanese NHK in Japan. The 45-minute program produced by the ETV was broadcast on this Japanese national television February 17, 1996.
- Interviewed by the RFI (Radio France Internationale) on East Asian matters and on my research work occasionally (about three years every year).
- Presented a lecture on “Basic Features of Easian Culture” to the Metropolitan Police, May 25, 1994.
- Advisor, Multicultural Project Advisory Committee (Royal Alexandra Hospital Multicultural Awareness and Health Education Programme, Edmonton), 1992.
- Historical Advisor for an international documentary film on Nguyen-Truong-To (1829-1869), a mid-nineteenth century Vietnamese reformist intellectual, August 1992.