The Jim Parys Pages

• Monographs:

Tim ve Coi Nguon Chu Han  (In Search of the Origins of Chinese Characters Used in Vietnamese).  Ha Noi: World Publishers, November 1997 and July 1998 (awarded the national Vietnamese Silver Book Award).

Tam Quoc Dien Nghia Phu Luc (An Appendix to The Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel). Ha Noi: Literature Publishing House, May 1996.

• Translations:

Essay by LawrenceSummers in Scientific American, “The Most Influential Investment,” August 1992.  Printed in Sunday Nhan Dan,November 22, 1992, p. 14.  (English to Vietnamese)

History of Buddhism in Vietnam, Ha Noi: Social Sciences Publishing House, 1992. (Vietnamese to English).

• Book Reviews:

“Destinies Shared: US Japanese Relations,” Orbis, fall 1990, p. 625.

Rafferty, Kevin. “City on the Rocks: Hong Kong’s Uncertain Future,” Orbis, fall 1990, p. 624.

Muscat, Robert J.; Stromseth, Jonathan. “Cambodia: Post-Settlement Reconstruction and Development,” Orbis, fall 1990, pp. 623-4.

Sutter, Valerie O’Connor. “Indochinese Refugee Dilemma,” Orbis, summer 1990, pp. 467-8.

Lord, Bette Bao. “Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic,” Orbis, summer 1990, pp. 472-3.

Duiker, William J.  “Vietnam Since the Fall of Saigon,” Orbis, summer 1990, pp. 469-70.

Brown, Frederick. “Second Chance: Americaand Indochinain the 1990s,” Orbis, spring 1990, p. 310.

•  Articles:

“Peaceful partition” in Penn Gazette, March/April 2012.  http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0312/elsewhere.html

“Borrowing and literacy of Ethnic Khmer in Tra Vinh, ” UNICEF Integrated Rural Development Planning Workshop, Phan Thiet,Binh Thuan,Vietnam,November 11-14, 1994.

“Re-sprouting village trades in Viet Nam,”  NGO Handicraft Projects. March 1993.

“Japan’s America-Bashers: the Manuscript, ” Orbis, winter 1990, pp. 88-102.

“Investor’s Update,” Business China,September 25, 1989,  p. 139.

“Shanghai UOP’s Success,” Business China,May 8, 1989, pp. 66-67.

Portions of a survey of Shanghai’s economy, Business China,  March 27, 1989, pp. 41-44.