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Nguyen Ngoc Tho is an Associate Professor in East Asian Cultural Studies, and currently works at the University of Social Science and Humanities, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City (USSH, VNU-HCM). He received his B.A. in Chinese studies in 1999, M.A. in 2003 and Ph.D. in 2012 from VNU-HCM. He undertook a six-month internship at the National University of Singapore in 2001, six-month and then nine-month fellowships at Sun Yat-sen University (China) in 2005 and 2008; an 18-month fellowship at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2007 and 2009; and one-year scholarship at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2017-2018 (visiting scholar). Nguyen Ngoc Tho has published four books: The symbol of dragons in East Asian cultures (2016); The cult of Tian Hou (Mazu) in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam (2017); the textbook The Chinese Culture (2017) and The ethnic Chinese culture in Hoi An entrepôt, Vietnam (2018), and dozens of research papers domestic and abroad. He was a participant in the US Government Visitors Program in Higher Education in 2015, organized by the US Department of State. He is currently focusing on cultural change and empowerment among the ethnic Chinese community in Vietnam in the threshold of modernization and global integration, as well as their struggles and efforts to balance localization and identity preservation. At Harvard Asia Center, he will further his study by deepening and sharpening his theories and arguments with Western philosophies and complete the English book entitled Take root wherever you land: the cultural transformation of ethnic Chinese in contemporary Vietnam.
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