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  • Bibliotactics Available for Preorder from UC Press 30% off

    Bibliotactics Available for Preorder from UC Press 30% off

    Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam is now available for preorder from UC Press with the promo code UCPSAVE30. Be the first to pick up your print copy to be published and shipped by January 13, 2026. Open…

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    September 13, 2025
  • Saigon Experimental “Book Talks”: Art, Community, Women’s Reading, August 8-9, 2025

    Saigon Experimental “Book Talks”: Art, Community, Women’s Reading, August 8-9, 2025

    Join us in Saigon for experimental community talks around reading, feminism, and art. It’s an honor and dream to “start” my book tour in Saigon (where the intellectual/personal/political journey began) alongside feminist cothinkers Minh and Yen. August 8, 2025: “Library…

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    August 1, 2025
  • Bibliotactics “Preview Zine” Now Available

    Bibliotactics “Preview Zine” Now Available

    In anticipation for the publication of the book (January 13, 2026), Kady and Cindy made a preview zine to creatively showcase the ambitions and scope of Bibliotactics!

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    July 9, 2025
  • Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore, August 14, 2025 [Hybrid Book Talk]

    Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore, August 14, 2025 [Hybrid Book Talk]

    This event will be hybrid, and a recording of the presentation will be made available. Register here to attend!

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    June 24, 2025
  • Core Arguments

    Core Arguments

    This book examines the cultural history of the library, its builders and users, and the politics of public reading and print control in colonial to postcolonial Vietnam. Focused primarily on the state Central Library in Hanoi and Cochinchina Library in…

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    December 23, 2023
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