Overview
Hue-Tam Ho Tai (born 1948), joined the Harvard faculty in 1989 and was the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University from 1990-2017. This collection consists of manuscripts and writings, research notes and files, newspaper clippings, lecture notes, course syllabi, teaching materials (including syllabi for History 1826 and History 1824 and lecture notes); grant proposals, including records relating to the project on Early Modern Vietnam and its 1982 conference held at Harvard; and papers and documents related to the “Kinship and Gender in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam” 1986 conference.
Dates
- Creation: 1970-2014 [and undated]
Creator
- Tai, Hue-Tam Ho, 1948- (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection contains items in English, French, and Vietnamese.
Researcher access
The Hue-Tam Ho Tai personal archive is open for research, with the following exceptions: Harvard University records are restricted for 50 years. Personnel and student records are closed for 80 years. Specific restrictions are noted at the folder level.
Restricted items are housed in boxes 9 and 10.
Extent
8.7 cubic feet (8 record cartons, 2 document boxes)Hue-Tam Ho Tai’s personal archive documents her professional career as a researcher and Harvard University professor. The collection includes manuscripts, writings, and publications, including book and film reviews; photocopies of chapters in books; correspondence; and research and subject files, including bibliographies, press reports, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings on Vietnam and Indochina, as well as photocopies of archival documents from France used by Tai in her research. Other professional materials include grant proposals, including records relating to the project on Early Modern Vietnam and its 1982 conference held at Harvard University; and papers and documents related to the 1986 conference, “Kinship and Gender in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.”
Tai’s papers also contain teaching materials, such as syllabi, lecture notes, and assigned readings for several of her courses, including: Foreign Cultures 60: Individual, Community and Nation in Vietnam; History 90: Colonialism and Postcolonialism; History 1826/1836: Ideologies of Rebellion in China and Vietnam; History 1959: America and Vietnam, 1945-1975; History 1820/1618: Premodern Vietnam; History 1821/1620: Modern Vietnam; and Historical Studies B-68: America and Vietnam, 1945-1975. Biographical materials include Tai’s curriculum vitae, student papers authored by Tai, photographs, and a photograph album.
Biographical note on Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Hue-Tam Ho Tai (born 1948), was the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University. Born to Vietnamese revolutionaries, Tai spent her early childhood in France, returning to Saigon in 1957. At 18, Tai traveled to the United States, where she studied at Brandeis University (AB 1970) and Harvard University (PhD 1977). Tai joined the Harvard faculty as an associate professor in 1989 and was named the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History in 1990. Tai retired in 2017. Tai’s research focused on the social and cultural history of modern Vietnam, including public memory and public history; the famine of 1945 in northern Vietnam as experience and memory; biography and autobiography; and Vietnamese intellectual and revolutionary history.
Arrangement
The collection is in the original order, as maintained by Hue-Tam Ho Tai.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection contains materials from two accessions:
- Boxes 1-2 were transferred from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, August 22, 2019; Accession 2020.106
- Boxes 3-10 were transferred from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, April 2019; Accession 2019.216
Inventory update
This document last updated 2022 May 02.
Processing Information
Titles were transcribed from the original folders; titles enclosed in brackets were devised by the archivist. Processing included physical re-housing and the creation of this finding aid.
- Boxes 1 and 2 of this collection were processed by Beth Prindle in February-March 2020.
- Boxes 3-10 were processed by Olivia Mandica-Hart in June-July 2021.
Creator
- Tai, Hue-Tam Ho, 1948- (Person)
- Title
- Tai, Hue-Tam Ho, 1948-. Hue-Tam Ho Tai personal archive, 1970-2014 and [undated] : an inventory
- Author
- Harvard University Archives
- Date
- July 12, 2021
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hua24020
Repository Details
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