Asian Studies Director Tuong Vu’s new book, “Vietnam’s Communist Revolution,” was recently published by Cambridge University Press.

The book traces the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development.

Spanning the entire history of the Vietnamese revolution and its aftermath, this book examines its leaders’ early rise to power, the tumult of three decades of war with France, the US, and China, and the stubborn legacies left behind which remain in Vietnam today.

Peter Zinoman, of the University of California-Berkeley, calls the book a “game changer in multiple fields.” He says it is the “first study in over a generation to cover the entire century-long history of the Vietnamese communist party from its inception after World War I until the present.”