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Zinoman makes original contributions on multiple fronts, including colonial systems; prisons as social institutions; political life in prison; public campaigns concerning prisons; and released prisoners in action. He also takes us beyond the colonial/anticolonial, nationalist/communist, and war/peace dichotomies that have long dominated Vietnam studies. - David Marr, author of Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 This is a wonderful, lucidly argued, and meticulously documented book. - Ann Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

"""Zinoman makes original contributions on multiple fronts, including colonial systems; prisons as social institutions; political life in prison; public campaigns concerning prisons; and released prisoners in action. He also takes us beyond the colonial/anticolonial, nationalist/communist, and war/peace dichotomies that have long dominated Vietnam studies."" - David Marr, author of Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 ""This is a wonderful, lucidly argued, and meticulously documented book."" - Ann Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things"""

""Zinoman makes original contributions on multiple fronts, including colonial systems; prisons as social institutions; political life in prison; public campaigns concerning prisons; and released prisoners in action. He also takes us beyond the colonial/anticolonial, nationalist/communist, and war/peace dichotomies that have long dominated Vietnam studies."" - David Marr, author of Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 ""This is a wonderful, lucidly argued, and meticulously documented book."" - Ann Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things""

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Peter Zinoman is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of California, Berkeley.

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