Hue-Tam Ho Tai is the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History  at Harvard University, USA. Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

• Introduction: Property, Rights, and Values: State, Society and the Market in Vietnam Part I: Land, Labor and the State 1. Property and State in Fifteenth Century Dai Viet: Public and Private Land 2. Property and Poverty in Southern Vietnam: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives 3. Bodies in Perpetual Motion: Peasant Labor and the State in the DRV 4. Legal Rights to Resources versus Forest Access in the Vietnamese Uplands 5. Social Demolition: Creative Destruction and the Production of Value in Vietnamese Land Clearance Part II: Property Rights and Property Disputes 6. Constructing Civil Society on a Demolition Site in Hanoi 7. Property, Corruption, and Political Control over the Courts: The Do Son Land Case 8. The Emerging Role of Property Rights in Land and Housing Disputes in Hanoi Part III: Conflicts over Intangible Property 9. The Commodification of Village Songs and Dances in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Vietnam 10. Appropriating Culture: The Case of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam 11. What’s in a Name? The Case of the Saola Epilogue: Property, State and Society in Vietnam and Beyond

Hue-Tam Ho Tai is the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History  at Harvard University, USA. Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

• Introduction: Property, Rights, and Values: State, Society and the Market in Vietnam Part I: Land, Labor and the State 1. Property and State in Fifteenth Century Dai Viet: Public and Private Land 2. Property and Poverty in Southern Vietnam: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives 3. Bodies in Perpetual Motion: Peasant Labor and the State in the DRV 4. Legal Rights to Resources versus Forest Access in the Vietnamese Uplands 5. Social Demolition: Creative Destruction and the Production of Value in Vietnamese Land Clearance Part II: Property Rights and Property Disputes 6. Constructing Civil Society on a Demolition Site in Hanoi 7. Property, Corruption, and Political Control over the Courts: The Do Son Land Case 8. The Emerging Role of Property Rights in Land and Housing Disputes in Hanoi Part III: Conflicts over Intangible Property 9. The Commodification of Village Songs and Dances in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Vietnam 10. Appropriating Culture: The Case of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam 11. What’s in a Name? The Case of the Saola Epilogue: Property, State and Society in Vietnam and Beyond

Hue-Tam Ho Tai is the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History  at Harvard University, USA. Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

• Introduction: Property, Rights, and Values: State, Society and the Market in Vietnam Part I: Land, Labor and the State 1. Property and State in Fifteenth Century Dai Viet: Public and Private Land 2. Property and Poverty in Southern Vietnam: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives 3. Bodies in Perpetual Motion: Peasant Labor and the State in the DRV 4. Legal Rights to Resources versus Forest Access in the Vietnamese Uplands 5. Social Demolition: Creative Destruction and the Production of Value in Vietnamese Land Clearance Part II: Property Rights and Property Disputes 6. Constructing Civil Society on a Demolition Site in Hanoi 7. Property, Corruption, and Political Control over the Courts: The Do Son Land Case 8. The Emerging Role of Property Rights in Land and Housing Disputes in Hanoi Part III: Conflicts over Intangible Property 9. The Commodification of Village Songs and Dances in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Vietnam 10. Appropriating Culture: The Case of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam 11. What’s in a Name? The Case of the Saola Epilogue: Property, State and Society in Vietnam and Beyond