Christian C Lentz
Biographic Data
| ID | 130688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian C Lentz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lentz |
| SIGNATURE | LENTZ C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3094-397X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Where was Dien Bien Phu? Oey Hong Lee's eventful geography of decolonization
In Praise of Floods
Teaching the History of the Vietnam Wars
On Contested Territory
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Contested Territory
Christian C. Lentz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. xvi and 331 pp., illus. $35 cloth (ISBN 9780300233957).We are delighted to bring together this forum on Contested Territory by Christ
Contested Territory
The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands’ transformation into Northwest Vietnam This new work of historical and political geography ventures beyond the conventional framing of the Battle of Ä?iện Biên Phủ, the 1954 conflict that toppled the French empire in Indochina. Tracking a longer period of anticolonial revolution and nation-state formation from 1945 to 1960, Ch…
Cultivating Subjects
Swidden cultivators in the Southeast Asian highlands may work far from lowland centres, but certain crops attract powerful interests. During the First Indochina War (1946-54), French and Vietnamese political actors climbed the hills in pursuit of the Black River region's opium production and trade. Even after combat formally ended, opium contests continued into an independent Vietnam, intersecting with larger struggles over ethnic difference, sta…
Taming Tibet
Emily T. Yeh. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvii and 324 pp., maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8014-7832-1), $75.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8014-5155-3).So...
Encountering Everyday Perspectives on the American War
The shooting ended forty years ago but American scholars still fight over how to interpret the Vietnam War. Historians, especially, continue to debate the meaning, significance, and experience of t
The king yields to the village? A micropolitics of statemaking in Northwest Vietnam
Making the Northwest Vietnamese
This paper revisits Lai Châu in late 1953 when the Thái Federation's collapse signaled the rise of a hegemonic Democratic Republic of Vietnam. I use this moment to analyze processes of legitimating and remaking forms of rule and ruling. I illustrate both how a militarized political project configured and articulated itself, as state, and how this self-proclaimed "state" attempted to recruit local people by casting them in a new community, as nati…
Mobilization and state formation on a frontier of Vietnam
Defining mobilization as a powerful tactic and social process enables a critical analysis of state power as well as its spatial configurations and legitimation practices. Mobilization in the site of Đin Biên Ph first appeared during military confrontation (1952-54) and reappeared during land reform (1953-57) and collectivization (1959-60), all of which transformed agrarian community forms, political relations, and economic production - although n…
Cultivating Subjects
Swidden cultivators in the Southeast Asian highlands may work far from lowland centres, but certain crops attract powerful interests. During the First Indochina War (1946-54), French and Vietnamese political actors climbed the hills in pursuit of the Black River region's opium production and trade. Even after combat formally ended, opium contests continued into an independent Vietnam, intersecting with larger struggles over ethnic difference, sta…
Mobilization and state formation on a frontier of Vietnam
Defining mobilization as a powerful tactic and social process enables a critical analysis of state power as well as its spatial configurations and legitimation practices. Mobilization in the site of Đin Biên Ph first appeared during military confrontation (1952-54) and reappeared during land reform (1953-57) and collectivization (1959-60), all of which transformed agrarian community forms, political relations, and economic production - although n…
Making the Northwest Vietnamese
This paper revisits Lai Châu in late 1953 when the Thái Federation's collapse signaled the rise of a hegemonic Democratic Republic of Vietnam. I use this moment to analyze processes of legitimating and remaking forms of rule and ruling. I illustrate both how a militarized political project configured and articulated itself, as state, and how this self-proclaimed "state" attempted to recruit local people by casting them in a new community, as nati…
The king yields to the village? A micropolitics of statemaking in Northwest Vietnam
Encountering Everyday Perspectives on the American War
The shooting ended forty years ago but American scholars still fight over how to interpret the Vietnam War. Historians, especially, continue to debate the meaning, significance, and experience of t
Making the Northwest Vietnamese
This paper revisits Lai Châu in late 1953 when the Thái Federation's collapse signaled the rise of a hegemonic Democratic Republic of Vietnam. I use this moment to analyze processes of legitimating and remaking forms of rule and ruling. I illustrate both how a militarized political project configured and articulated itself, as state, and how this self-proclaimed "state" attempted to recruit local people by casting them in a new community, as nati…
Mobilization and state formation on a frontier of Vietnam
Defining mobilization as a powerful tactic and social process enables a critical analysis of state power as well as its spatial configurations and legitimation practices. Mobilization in the site of Đin Biên Ph first appeared during military confrontation (1952-54) and reappeared during land reform (1953-57) and collectivization (1959-60), all of which transformed agrarian community forms, political relations, and economic production - although n…
The king yields to the village? A micropolitics of statemaking in Northwest Vietnam
Taming Tibet
Emily T. Yeh. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvii and 324 pp., maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8014-7832-1), $75.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8014-5155-3).So...
Encountering Everyday Perspectives on the American War
The shooting ended forty years ago but American scholars still fight over how to interpret the Vietnam War. Historians, especially, continue to debate the meaning, significance, and experience of t
Cultivating Subjects
Swidden cultivators in the Southeast Asian highlands may work far from lowland centres, but certain crops attract powerful interests. During the First Indochina War (1946-54), French and Vietnamese political actors climbed the hills in pursuit of the Black River region's opium production and trade. Even after combat formally ended, opium contests continued into an independent Vietnam, intersecting with larger struggles over ethnic difference, sta…
Contested Territory
The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands’ transformation into Northwest Vietnam This new work of historical and political geography ventures beyond the conventional framing of the Battle of Ä?iện Biên Phủ, the 1954 conflict that toppled the French empire in Indochina. Tracking a longer period of anticolonial revolution and nation-state formation from 1945 to 1960, Ch…
Contested Territory
Christian C. Lentz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. xvi and 331 pp., illus. $35 cloth (ISBN 9780300233957).We are delighted to bring together this forum on Contested Territory by Christ
On Contested Territory
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Where was Dien Bien Phu? Oey Hong Lee's eventful geography of decolonization
In Praise of Floods
Teaching the History of the Vietnam Wars
Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)