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Faculty of Arts
University of Alberta

Vinh, Sinh

Dr. Sinh Vinh 

(Professor Emeritus)


Ph.D., University of Toronto (1979)
M.A., University of Toronto (1974)
B.A., Tokyo International Christian University (1972) 

svinh@ualberta.ca 

Expertise & Research Interests 

 Japan; East Asia

Select Publications


Books:
Hyôden Tokutomi Sohô (A Critical Biography of Tokutomi Sohô). Tokyo: Iwanami
    Publishers, 1994.

Oku no hosomichi.A Vietnamese translation of Matsuo Bashô's Oku no hosomichi,
    with introduction and notes. Hanoi: The Gioi Publishing House, 1999.

Japan and Vietnam in the Context of East Asia. HoChiMinh: University of
    Education, 1993.

Canada and the Changing Vietnam, 1986-1993. Toronto: Canada-ASEAN Centre,
    1993.

 

The Rise of Modern Japan .  HochiMinh City : University of Education , 1992.

 

The Future Japan   (University of Alberta Press, 1989). Translation, with an introduction and annotations, of Tokutomi Sohô's book Shôrai no Nihon  (1886). Translator and co-editor (other co-editors are Prof. Matsuzawa Hiroaki and Nicholas Wickenden).

 

Phan-Bôi-Châu and the Dông-Du Movement  (Yale Center for International and Area Studies, co-published with William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston; 1988). Editor and contributor.

 

Tokutomi Sohô: The Later Career.  Toronto :  University of Toronto - York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia , 1986).

 

Japan and Vietnam : Cultural Interactions (Van-Nghe and Centre for National Studies and Center for National Studies, Ho-Chi-Minh City , 2001).

 

Overturned Chariot: The Autobiography of Phan-Boi-Chau. An English translation from literary Chinese of Phan-Boi-Chau's (1863-1940), with an introduction and notes. University of Hawaii Press , 1999 (jointly with Dr. Nicholas Wickenden).

 

 Records of Service in Annam . A Vietnamese translation of Chu Shun-shui's (1600-82) An-nan kung-yi chi-shih with an introduction and annotations. Hanoi : Society of Vietnamese Historians, 1999.

 

Chapters in books, articles in refereed journals, and printed conference proceedings:

“Phan-Chau-Trinh (1870-1926) and His Perception of Popular Rights in Vietnam ”, in F. Mantienne and F. Souty, eds. Essays in Honour of Professor Nguyen-The-Anh. Paris : Les Indes Savantes, 42 ms. pp., 2003.

 

“Tokutomi Soho and Imperial Japan’s Destiny”. Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry, vol. 21, May/June 2002, pp. 46-49.

 

“Phan-Chau-Trinh and His Interpretation of Confucianism” in Confucianism in Vietnam , ed. by Vietnam National University . A collection of papers presented at the Third International Conference on “Confucianism in Vietnam, July 19 –21, 2001, HoChiMinh City, organized by the HoChiMinh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities in collaboration with Harvard--Yenching Institute, Harvard University  (HoChiMinh City Publishing House, 2002), pp. 183-215. 

 

“Komatsu Kiyoshi and French Indochina ”. Moussons, no. 3, June 2002, pp. 57-86.

 

“’National Studies’ in Japan ”, in Ban sac dan toc trong van hoa – van nghe (National Characteristics in Culture and Arts) ( Hanoi and HoChiMinh City : Co-published by the Van-Nghe Publishing House and  Center for National Culture Studies, 2001), pp. 206-217.

 

"Shibusawa Ei'ichi's Role in the Modernization Movement in East Asia ". The Journal of Shibusawa Studies (Shibusawa Kenkyû), (October 2000), pp. 64-68.

 

"Komatsu Kiyoshi Betonamu dokuritsu e no mihatenu yume (Komatsu Kiyoshi -- A Dream for Vietnam 's Independence That Was Never Fulfilled). Sekai, April 2000, pp. 275-285; May 2000, pp. 264-282.

 

"Hanh trinh dan toc trong the ky XX:  Thu nhin lai vi tri cua Phan Boi Chau" (An Assessment of the Role of Phan Boi Chau in the Twentieth-century Vietnam ).  Dien Dan Forum, no. 89 (November 1999), pp. 16-19.