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Bibliotactics Published! Q&A with Author
Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet Vietnamese readers pursued alternative uses of the library that exceeded imperial intentions. Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam examines the Hanoi and Saigon state libraries in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam, uncovering the emergence of a colonial public who…
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1 Day until Bibliotactics Pub Day: An Alternative Reading Guide
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Upcoming Book Events
Here is a list of upcoming community and academic events in your city! Bibliotactics will be published open access Jan 13, 2026, (preorders of print copies available now https://www.ucpress.edu/books/bibliotactics/paper). East coast folks–if there is a community org/library/university/student group interested let me know around my New York trip. Or if other folks would like to batch…
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La La Libraries — A Bibliotactics × Seapunk Library Design Jam
Had the honor of hosting a community playful design jam on library futures/presents event in August in Saigon with Seapunk. Here are some of our photos from the event, and the quote from Bibliotactics that sparked the series of design activities. Imagine this. On a beautiful moonlit day with a pleasant breeze, a few close…
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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 access editions through Luminos will also be available that date worldwide. Online ordering of print…
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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 History as Data-Art-Life: Fabulating the Vietnamese Past” August 9, 2025: “Women’s Reading: Theory and Practice”…
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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 Saigon from 1865 to 1958, this book advances a two-part argument on the history of…