Ngô Viñh Long is Professor of History at the University of Maine, teaching on East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the relations of the countries in these regions with each other and with the United States. Long received a Ph. D. in East Asian History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1978.
Long's research has focused on the problems of the peasantry and of rural development in East and Southeast Asia. In recently years he has paid increasing attention on the question of development and the roles of governments in general. During the 2000-2001 academic year he served as a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, teaching courses on the history of economic development in East and Southeast Asia since the end of World War II and tNgô Viñh Long is Professor of History at the University of Maine, teaching on East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the relations of the countries in these regions with each other and with the United States. Long received a Ph. D. in East Asian History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1978.
Long's research has focused on the problems of the peasantry and of rural development in East and Southeast Asia. In recently years he has paid increasing attention on the question of development and the roles of governments in general. During the 2000-2001 academic year he served as a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, teaching courses on the history of economic development in East and Southeast Asia since the end of World War II and the history of foreign relations in East and Southeast Asia since the end of the Cold War....more