Olga Dror
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Dror |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Dror |
| SIGNATURE | DROR O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5642-9506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ho Chi Minh in Political Theater and Cold War Propaganda
During the Cold War, decolonization gave rise to many new countries that struggled to define their place in the East-West confrontation. This was an especially urgent task for intellectuals who identified with new states. One such intellectual was Kateb Yacine, whose quest to look ahead was impaired by his revulsion at the postcolonial leaders of his native Algeria. His search for a secular national model found its object in Ho Chi Minh and the C…
Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, d'un royaume l'autre: Religion et révolution au Sud Viêt Nam (1935-1955)
Pascal Bourdeaux is a historian of religion who focuses on the religions of southern Vietnam. His newest monograph presents a compelling analysis of Hòa Hảo Buddhism in the last decade and a half of French colonial domination.In the introduction, the author proposes three main themes that he aims to develop and to analyze: the challenges of a millenarian movement normalizing relations with the surrounding region, the appearance of a new religion …
Normalising Hồ Chí Minh in Vietnamese cinema, 1990–2020: Ideology, popular appeal, and the market economy
The article discusses the representation of Hồ Chí Minh in modern Vietnamese cinema from 1990 to the present. The first feature film on Hồ Chí Minh's life was produced only in 1990, 31 years after his death. Since then, 6 more films have appeared. I explore the reasons why there were no feature films about Hồ Chí Minh before 1990 and why they eventually began to appear. I address the filmmakers’ attempts to reintroduce Hồ Chí Minh, especially to …
Vietnam: A Pathway from State Socialism
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975
North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences of growing up during the Vietnamese War. The book gives a unique perspective on the conflict through the prism of adult-youth relations. By studying these relations, including educational systems, social organizations, and texts created by and for children during the war, Olga Dror analyzes how the two societies dealt with their wartime experience and strove to shape their futures. …
Education and Politics in Wartime: School Systems in North and South Vietnam, 1965–1975
From the late 1950s until 1975, the war between North and South Vietnam had both domestic and international consequences. Unlike the Cold War divide between the United States and the Soviet Union, the war between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, the Communist North) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, the non-Communist South) was an armed conflict between two polities that both identified themselves as Vietnamese. In this twenty-year-long s…
Geoffrey C. Stewart. Vietnam’s Lost Revolution: Ngô Đình Diệm’s Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1950–1963
Vietnam’s Lost Revolution: Ngô Đình Diệm’s Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1950–1963, is the first—and a very good—study of the Civic Action Programs developed in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) by the government of Ngô Đình Diệm, president from 1955 to his assassination in 1963. These programs were designed to counter the influence of communists and to build a modernized rural society with a new spirit of citizenship. Geoffrey C. Stewart h…
Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History
Princess Liễu Hạnh, often called the Mother of the Vietnamese people by her followers, is one of the most prominent goddesses in Vietnamese popular religion. First emerging some four centuries ago as a local sect appealing to women, the princess' cult has since transcended its geographical and gender boundaries and remains vibrant today. Who was this revered deity? Was she a virtuous woman or a prostitute? Why did people begin worshiping her and …
Foundational Myths in the Republic of Vietnam (1955–1975): “Harnessing” the Hùng Kings against Ngô Đình Diệm Communists, Cowboys, and Hippies for Unity, Peace, and Vietnameseness
Many Vietnamese consider the Hùng Kings, who allegedly ruled from 2879 to 258 BCE, to be their ancestors and the founders of their nation. Not concerned with the historicity of the Hùng Kings, this article focuses on the role of the narrative of the Hùng Kings in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) between 1955 and 1975. During different periods of the RVN, attitudes toward the Hùng Kings varied from a denial of their importance to attempts to use them…
Establishing Hồ Chí Minh's Cult: Vietnamese Traditions and Their Transformations
After Vietnam's August Revolution in 1945, Hồ Chí Minh was venerated as the center of a newly created political religion that eventually became part of the Vietnamese religious landscape. This article traces the origins of Hồ Chí Minh's veneration and his own role in cementing his image not only as the leader of the nation but as the Uncle, the head of the Vietnamese national family. Through an examination of Hồ Chí Minh's first (auto)biography, …
Raising Vietnamese: War and youth in the South in the early 1970s
This essay considers the importance of looking at writings for children for historical analysis, particularly in times of war, focusing on magazines published for youth in South Vietnam in the early 1970s. Two magazines, Thiếu Nhi and Thằng Bờm , in particular, are studied in terms of their editorial aims and contents, as well as their young readers' submissions in response to contemporary sociocultural issues raised in these magazines. The livel…
Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin
This volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators with different interests who are viewing different parts of Vietnam at an early stage of European involvement in the region
Doàn thi Diêm's ‘Story of the Vân Cát Goddess’ as a Story of Emancipation
Most of the stories we know about the Vietnamese goddess Liêu Hanh derive from Doàn thi Diêm's story Vân Cát Thân Nũ Truyên . This article analyses the story, arguing that in fact it is a piece of fiction which reflects the author's views, experiences and aspirations for greater freedom for women
Establishing Hồ Chí Minh's Cult: Vietnamese Traditions and Their Transformations
After Vietnam's August Revolution in 1945, Hồ Chí Minh was venerated as the center of a newly created political religion that eventually became part of the Vietnamese religious landscape. This article traces the origins of Hồ Chí Minh's veneration and his own role in cementing his image not only as the leader of the nation but as the Uncle, the head of the Vietnamese national family. Through an examination of Hồ Chí Minh's first (auto)biography, …
Education and Politics in Wartime: School Systems in North and South Vietnam, 1965–1975
From the late 1950s until 1975, the war between North and South Vietnam had both domestic and international consequences. Unlike the Cold War divide between the United States and the Soviet Union, the war between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, the Communist North) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, the non-Communist South) was an armed conflict between two polities that both identified themselves as Vietnamese. In this twenty-year-long s…
Doàn thi Diêm's ‘Story of the Vân Cát Goddess’ as a Story of Emancipation
Most of the stories we know about the Vietnamese goddess Liêu Hanh derive from Doàn thi Diêm's story Vân Cát Thân Nũ Truyên . This article analyses the story, arguing that in fact it is a piece of fiction which reflects the author's views, experiences and aspirations for greater freedom for women
Doàn thi Diêm's ‘Story of the Vân Cát Goddess’ as a Story of Emancipation
Most of the stories we know about the Vietnamese goddess Liêu Hanh derive from Doàn thi Diêm's story Vân Cát Thân Nũ Truyên . This article analyses the story, arguing that in fact it is a piece of fiction which reflects the author's views, experiences and aspirations for greater freedom for women
Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin
This volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators with different interests who are viewing different parts of Vietnam at an early stage of European involvement in the region
Raising Vietnamese: War and youth in the South in the early 1970s
This essay considers the importance of looking at writings for children for historical analysis, particularly in times of war, focusing on magazines published for youth in South Vietnam in the early 1970s. Two magazines, Thiếu Nhi and Thằng Bờm , in particular, are studied in terms of their editorial aims and contents, as well as their young readers' submissions in response to contemporary sociocultural issues raised in these magazines. The livel…
Foundational Myths in the Republic of Vietnam (1955–1975): “Harnessing” the Hùng Kings against Ngô Đình Diệm Communists, Cowboys, and Hippies for Unity, Peace, and Vietnameseness
Many Vietnamese consider the Hùng Kings, who allegedly ruled from 2879 to 258 BCE, to be their ancestors and the founders of their nation. Not concerned with the historicity of the Hùng Kings, this article focuses on the role of the narrative of the Hùng Kings in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) between 1955 and 1975. During different periods of the RVN, attitudes toward the Hùng Kings varied from a denial of their importance to attempts to use them…
Establishing Hồ Chí Minh's Cult: Vietnamese Traditions and Their Transformations
After Vietnam's August Revolution in 1945, Hồ Chí Minh was venerated as the center of a newly created political religion that eventually became part of the Vietnamese religious landscape. This article traces the origins of Hồ Chí Minh's veneration and his own role in cementing his image not only as the leader of the nation but as the Uncle, the head of the Vietnamese national family. Through an examination of Hồ Chí Minh's first (auto)biography, …
Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History
Princess Liễu Hạnh, often called the Mother of the Vietnamese people by her followers, is one of the most prominent goddesses in Vietnamese popular religion. First emerging some four centuries ago as a local sect appealing to women, the princess' cult has since transcended its geographical and gender boundaries and remains vibrant today. Who was this revered deity? Was she a virtuous woman or a prostitute? Why did people begin worshiping her and …
Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975
North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences of growing up during the Vietnamese War. The book gives a unique perspective on the conflict through the prism of adult-youth relations. By studying these relations, including educational systems, social organizations, and texts created by and for children during the war, Olga Dror analyzes how the two societies dealt with their wartime experience and strove to shape their futures. …
Education and Politics in Wartime: School Systems in North and South Vietnam, 1965–1975
From the late 1950s until 1975, the war between North and South Vietnam had both domestic and international consequences. Unlike the Cold War divide between the United States and the Soviet Union, the war between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, the Communist North) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, the non-Communist South) was an armed conflict between two polities that both identified themselves as Vietnamese. In this twenty-year-long s…
Geoffrey C. Stewart. Vietnam’s Lost Revolution: Ngô Đình Diệm’s Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1950–1963
Vietnam’s Lost Revolution: Ngô Đình Diệm’s Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1950–1963, is the first—and a very good—study of the Civic Action Programs developed in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) by the government of Ngô Đình Diệm, president from 1955 to his assassination in 1963. These programs were designed to counter the influence of communists and to build a modernized rural society with a new spirit of citizenship. Geoffrey C. Stewart h…
Vietnam: A Pathway from State Socialism
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Normalising Hồ Chí Minh in Vietnamese cinema, 1990–2020: Ideology, popular appeal, and the market economy
The article discusses the representation of Hồ Chí Minh in modern Vietnamese cinema from 1990 to the present. The first feature film on Hồ Chí Minh's life was produced only in 1990, 31 years after his death. Since then, 6 more films have appeared. I explore the reasons why there were no feature films about Hồ Chí Minh before 1990 and why they eventually began to appear. I address the filmmakers’ attempts to reintroduce Hồ Chí Minh, especially to …
Ho Chi Minh in Political Theater and Cold War Propaganda
During the Cold War, decolonization gave rise to many new countries that struggled to define their place in the East-West confrontation. This was an especially urgent task for intellectuals who identified with new states. One such intellectual was Kateb Yacine, whose quest to look ahead was impaired by his revulsion at the postcolonial leaders of his native Algeria. His search for a secular national model found its object in Ho Chi Minh and the C…
Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, d'un royaume l'autre: Religion et révolution au Sud Viêt Nam (1935-1955)
Pascal Bourdeaux is a historian of religion who focuses on the religions of southern Vietnam. His newest monograph presents a compelling analysis of Hòa Hảo Buddhism in the last decade and a half of French colonial domination.In the introduction, the author proposes three main themes that he aims to develop and to analyze: the challenges of a millenarian movement normalizing relations with the surrounding region, the appearance of a new religion …
Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (13 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Vietnamese (8 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)