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In showing how the US military laid the foundations for contemporary Vietnamese consumption of cosmetics and practices of beauty, Tu shows how the intersecting histories of militarism, biomedicine, race, and aesthetics become materially and metaphorically visible on skin.
This essay explores contributions to Vietnamese history by Việt Nam’s first historical generals (who were women) as well as by women from the Vietnamese Communist Party’s early years through the French-American War (1945–1954) and the American War (1954‒1975).
War and Beauty (Chinese: 金枝慾孽) is a Hong Kong television period drama serial that originally aired on TVB Jade from 23 August to 2 October 2004, consisting of 30 episodes.
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Aug 22, 2022 · Experiments in Skin investigates how Vietnamese women make life and cultivate beauty in the “ collateral afterworlds ” of chemical warfare, from exploded ordinances to the infamous “rainbow herbicides.” Tu draws on ethnographic fieldwork at Calyx, a spa in Saigon.
Feb 22, 2021 · Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin has impacted how contemporary Vietnamese women use pharmaceutical cosmetics to repair the damage from the war's lingering toxicity.
Apr 16, 2021 · In showing how the US military laid the foundations for contemporary Vietnamese consumption of cosmetics and practices of beauty, Tu shows how the intersecting histories of militarism, biomedicine, race, and aesthetics become materially and metaphorically visible on skin.
- Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
While Vietnamese American literature frequently chronicles the trauma of war, including sexual violence, and the difficulties of war’s aftermath, including both posttraumatic stress disorder and racism against the Vietnamese in the United States, there are few accounts of disability.
