Linh Vu

Books:

• Governing the Dead: Martyrs, Memorials and Necrocitizenship in Modern China (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021) Interview Read the Introduction

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• "Archives of the Afterlife: The Disappearance of the British Empire’s Dead in Twentieth-Century China." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (Online First). Free Download.

• “(Un)rest in Revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the Making of China’s National Memory.” Memory Studies 17, no. 1 (2024): 56–70. Free download.

• "Remains of the republic Fate, fortune and families of fallen soldiers in nationalist China." Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 2 (2023): 18–39. (Open Access)

• "Personal Allegiances in Nineteenth-century China's Southern Borderland." Small Wars & Insurgences 34, no. 3 (2023): 725–46. Free download

• “Commemorative Contention: The Taipei Martyrs’ Shrine and and the Politics of Death.” Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 1 (2023): 1–31. (Open Access)

• "Martyred Patriarchs, Institutionalized Virtues, and the Gendered Republic of Twentieth-Century China." Modern China 47, no. 3 (2021): 290–319. Free download

• "Bones of Contention: China’s World War II Military Graves in India, Burma, and Papua New Guinea." Journal of Chinese Military History 8, no. 1 (May 2019): 52–99. Free download

• "Mobilizing the Dead in Wartime Chongqing." Journal of Modern Chinese History 11, no. 2 (December 2017): 264–87. Free download

• “Careless and Carless Natives: Automobile Accidents and the Project of Modernity in French Indochina.” SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 27, no. 2 (2012): 328–41.

• “Drowned in Romances, Tears, and Rivers: Young Women’s Suicide in Early Twentieth-Century Vietnam.” EXPLORATIONS 9 (Spring 2009): 25–46.

Book Chapters:

• “Memorials and Commemorative Structures in the Republican Era.” In Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History, ed. Kristin Stapleton, Xin Fan and Els van Dongen, 260–277. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing, 2026. Free Download

• “Dealing with the Dead in the China-Burma-India Theater.” In Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations, 1937-1949, ed. Judd Kinzley and Zach Fredman, 194–214. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Free download.

• "A Walk in a Park of Memories: Nature, Leisure, and Remembrance at Shanghai Longhua Martyrs’ Cemetery." Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia, ed. Alison J. Miller and Eunyoung Park, 182–99. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Free download

• "Loyal Sacrifice Shrines in Republican China, 1912–1949." In War and Memorials The Second World War and Beyond, ed. Frank Jacob and Kenneth Pearl, 149–81. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019. Free download

Dissertation:

• The Sovereignty of the War Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, and the Makings of Modern China, 1912-1949 (PhD Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2017).

Reviews:

• "Review of Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953 by Xiaofei Kang." Twentieth-Century China 49, no. 2 (2024): E5-E7.

• "Review of The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War by Parks M. Coble." Journal of Chinese History 8, no. 1 (2024): 192–95.

• "Review of The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China by Andrew B. Kipnis." Pacific Affairs 95, no. 4 (2022): 839–40.

• “Review of Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China by Grace C. Huang,” Journal of Asian Studies 81, no. 3 (2022): 573-75. 

• “Review of Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina: A Colonial Roadshow by Stéphanie Ponsavady,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 16, no. 3 (2021): 157–59.

• “Review of Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter.” Hanxue yanjiu tongxun 33, no. 4 (2014): 31-32 (in Chinese).

Other Writings:

• "Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine," The Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. 

• “Yellow Flower Hill (Huanghuagang) Martyrs’ Cemetery,” The Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. 

• “Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Martyrs’ Cemetery,” The Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. 

• “Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum,” The Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia.