“Hoa Bằng depicted books as desirable food objects with attractive scents and providing spiritual nourishment. He noted how urban readers already had a certain “addiction” to this type of literary consumption and encouraged the spread of reading tastes more evenly throughout society to rural readers. ” p. 132 Bibliotactics
UCLA Book Celebration
Fresh off the Podcast Press
“Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam,” New Books Network Podcast, February 6, 2026, hosted by Jen Hoyer (New Books in Library Science, Southeast Asian Studies, French Studies, University of California Press Podcast”
All Events are Public–Come Say Hi!
- March 12-15: Association for Asian Studies, Vancouver
- March 28: Wende Museum, Culver City, “Dangerous Reading: Bibliotactics Talk and Reception” Event Sign up here
- April 2: University of Washington and Friends of Little Saigon, Seattle
- April 12: Viet Book Fest, Orange County
- April 23-24: Western Association for Women Historians, Sacramento
- May 4: University of Maryland, Immigration and International Information Research Alliance, Bibliotactics selected for Read in – Virtual Author Talk, Zoom registration here
- May 8: New York Southeast Asia Network, NYC – Virtual Conversation with Rianne Subijanto and Shaoling Ma
- May 16: SEASGRAD Conference Keynote, University of California, Riverside
