Views from Mainland Southeast Asia: “Indochina” in a Century of Exchanges and Conflict, 1880s–1980s

Harvard FAS

This seminar introduces students to the modern histories and cultures of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, examining the most consequential episodes in the intertwined and often tumultuous relationships among these three countries from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. The course pays particular attention to “Indochina” as a colonial and postcolonial framework—one that at times connected, and at other times divided, the region’s peoples and states.Throughout the seminar,…