Vu Duc Liem

Dr. Vũ Đức Liêm is a Vietnamese historian, author, and the Vice Dean of the History Department at the Hanoi National University of Education. 

With a PhD from University of Hamburg (Germany), he has also studied at HNUE, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), and at the National University of Singapore. While his research focuses on early-modern Vietnamese political history and Southeast Asian studies, his research expands to early modern Vietnamese warfare and geopolitics. 

Selected Publications

• [in VN]“Major Issues in Relationship between Southeast Asian Continental Countries and China (Ming Dynasty)”, Chinese Studies Review, Vol. 95, 2009: 74 – 87.
• [in VN] ​“Area Studies and Early History of Southeast Asia: The Case Study of Srivijaya”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JSAS) 9 – 138, 2011: 26 – 37.
• “Rama III, Minh Mang and Power Paradigm of the early nineteenth century Mekong Valley”, Rian Thai: International Journal of Thai Studies, Vol. 5/2012, pp. 1 – 34.
• [in VN] ​“Thai people and the Sea: maritime interaction and management, and the establishment of the territorial waters in Thai history”, Journal of Research and Development 1 – 127, 2016: 104 – 127. 
• [in VN] ​“Vietnam at the crossroad of Area and Global studies: Vietnamese knowledge of Southeast Asia and New Approaches”, Journal of Historical Studies (JHS) 1 – 477, 2016: 58 – 69.
• [in VN] ​“Manuscript and political power in early nineteenth century Vietnam”, in Researching history: New Approaches, ed., History Department, Hanoi National University of Education. Hanoi, 2016: 445 – 462.
• “Weaving Mekong, Connecting Pasts and Integrating Future: ASEAN’s young scholarship and regional connectivity”, in Engaging with Vietnam Conference, eds., Leigh G. Dwyer, Phan Le Ha, and Le Thuy Linh, Hanoi: The Gioi Publishing House, 2016: 294 – 315.
• “Vietnam at the Khmer Frontier: Boundary Politics, 1802 – 1847”, Crosscurrents: East Asian History and Culture Review 5 – 2, 2016: 534 – 564. 
• [in VN] ​“Symbolizing the language of power: paratextual structure and textual organization of the Nguyen bureaucratic manuscript, 1802 – 1841”, in Royal Antiquities in Hue, Vol. 8, Hue, Hue Museum of Royal Antiquities, 2016. 
• [in VN] ​“Relocating Nguyen Cochinchina between East and Southeast Asia in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Journal of Research and Development 4, 2016:12 – 42.
• [in VN] TÁI ĐỊNH VỊ XỨ ĐÀNG TRONG TRONG KHÔNG GIAN ĐÔNG Á VÀ ĐÔNG NAM Á, THẾ KỶ XVI-XVIII, Nghiên cứu và Phát triển, 4, 2016: 12 – 42.
• “The age of the Sea Falcons: Naval Warfare in Vietnam, 1771 – 1802, in Beyond Courts and Colonists: New Sources and Reconstructions of Indigenous Warfare”, in Early Modern Southeast Asia, eds. Michael Charney & Kathryn Wellen. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press — NIAS Press, 2017: 103 – 129.
• “When savage turns to be Son of Heaven”: relocating Choson Korea and Nguyen Vietnam in Qing world order, Vietnam and Korea as ​“Longue Durée” Subject of Comparison”, IIAS (Leiden), VNU (Hanoi), Asia Centre, Seoul National University (South Korea), Leiden University (the Netherlands), and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France): Hanoi, 3 – 4 March 2017 (forthcoming).
• “Mythische Vergangenheit Und Die Politik Der Nationalen Identität Im Heutigen Vietnam”, in Vietnam. Mythen Und Wirklichkeiten, ed. Jörg. Wischermann & Gerhard. Bonn, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2018: 63 – 89.
• ‘Nam Tiến’ và cái bẫy địa lý của người Việt’ [“Marching to the South” and the trap of geography], BBC News transcript, Nov. 2018.
• “Connecting networks and orienting space: relocating Nguyen Cochinchina between East and Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries”, in Imagining Asia: Networks, Actors, Sites, eds., Andrea Acri, Kashshaf Ghani, Murari Jha, and Sraman Mukherjhee, Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019. 
• “Writing national history at the margins: navigating Ha Tien in the making of early modern Vietnam”, in Challenges of Writing Inclusive National Histories, ed., Maria Serena I. Diokno, London: Routledge, 2019.
• “Village Rebellion and Social Violence in Early Nineteenth Century Vietnam”, in A Global History of Early Modern Violence, Peter H. Wilson, Marie Houllemare & Erica Charters eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
• [in VN]“Thủy quân và ngai vàng ở Việt Nam cuối thế kỷ XVIII: Kỷ nguyên của những con cắt biển” [“Navy and the Throne in Vietnam at the End of the 18th Century: The Era of the Sea Caterpillars”], Tia Sang (scientific blog), 18 May 2020. 

Workshop papers: see here.