Shawn McHale

Professor McHale teaches courses in East and Southeast Asian history, Vietnam, and colonialism and its legacy. He spent the 2007-08 academic year as a Fulbright-Hays fellow in Vietnam, where he conducted research on the First Indochina War, decolonization, and the transformation of beliefs in a time of great social and political upheaval. (Complete C.V.)

Selected Publications

"Vietnamese Print Culture under French Colonial Rule: The Emergence of a Public Sphere." In Books in Numbers, ed. Wilt Idema, 377-415. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007.

Print and Power: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Communism in the Making of Modern Vietnam, 1920-1945. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

"Freedom, Violence, and the Struggle Over the Public Realm in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945-1958." In Naissance d'un Etat-Parti: le Viet Nam depuis 1945, ed. Benoit de Treglode and Christopher Goscha. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2004.

"Mapping a 'Confucian' Past: Vietnam and the Transition to Modernity." Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, ed. Benjamin Elman, Hermann Ooms, and John Duncan, 397-430. Los Angeles: UCLA Asia Pacific Monograph Series, 2002.

"Vietnamese Marxism, Dissent, and the Politics of Postcolonial Memory: Tran Duc Thao, 1946-1993." Journal of Asian Studies 61, no. 1 (February 2002): 7-37.

Courses Taught

IAFF 91: East Asia-Past and Present
Hist 101: Modern Southeast Asian History
Hist 101: Vietnam: From Colonialism to War
Hist 250: History of International Systems
Hist 288: Modern Southeast Asia
Hist 297: Memory-Global Perspectives

Education

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995.