Christina Firpo_"Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image Vietnam. 1920-1940"

Christina Firpo will discuss her book Beauty and the Nation, which explores the changing perspectives on Vietnamese women's beauty and their role in society during the interwar years.  

Christina Firpo is professor of Southeast Asian history at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She is the author of The Uprooted: Race, Imperialism, and Childhood in Indochina 1890-1980 (University of Hawaii Press, 2016); Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam 1920-1940 (Cornell University Press, 2020); and Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam (Columbia University Press, 2025).