This material was collected over the course of Marr's career. Some early material relates to his time in the United States Marine Corps. Some earlier material dates Marr's postgraduate studies and the Berkeley Free Speech movement in the 1960s. Most papers are related to Vietnam, including material collected while he was co-director of the Indochina Research Center in the 1970s and while editor of Vietnam Today,1978-1982. Some of this material was collected for the IRC by John Spragens.

Most papers related to Marr's academic work in the 1970s-2000s, including papers and material for his MA thesis, as well as monographs and books edited by Marr, including 'Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries', 'Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945' and 'Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946)', and 'Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power'.

Other material covers the Vietnamese Union Cataloguing Project and projects relating to Vietnamese scripts on computers in the 1980s-1990s, including the Vietnam Internet Project (VIP). Marr's involvement in Australian-Vietnamese scholarly exchanges in the same period also forms part of the collection.

Some material in this collection contains accounts of torture and/or images of injuries.

Announcement by the Department of Telecommunication, newsletter on combat by the Ministry for Defence, report by Lower house representative Nguyễn Mậu on the significance of the Communists' military activities, USAID Vietnam statistical weekly summary, newsletter on Cai Lậy attack, poster on the Cai Lậy attack, letter by John Spragens to Christopher Jenkins, report on Communists' prison violence, press clipping from Saigon Post on Khmer dissension, notes by Colonel Võ Đông Giang on the Provisional Revolutionary Government weekly press conference, notes on various issues, notes on the Cai Lậy incident and related pressures on the Hungar and Polish delegations to the International Commission of Control and Supervision, photos of an inspection of Cai Lậy attack by the International Commission of Control and Supervision

note by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the parties signatory to the Act of the International Conference on Viet Nam and others, appendix to the September 6 1974 notes by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs denouncing the Saigon administration for using airforces and artillery to kill the civilians, letter by John Spragens to Mr Đôn, letter by John Spragens to Chris, newsletter by the league of students of south vietnam, notes on a conversation with three prisoners recently released from Côn Sơn, speech by Senator Vũ Văn Mẫu president of the forces for national reconciliation, denouncement by the People's movement against corruption to save the country and build peace, account by a released prisoner of war about life with the liberation front

Conference paper between international businesses and RVN government, letter from Chân Tín member of RVN Prison Improvement Committee to Minister of Internal Affairs, letter from lawyer Nguyễn Long to the International Commission of Control and Supervision of the Paris Accord Execution, extract from 9 Feb 1974 issue of Thống Nhất published by native southerners resident in north Vietnam, notes by Colonel Võ Đông Giang on the Provisional Revolutionary Government weekly press conference, interview of Võ Doãn Châu director of Planning Commission for Tourism, list of political prisoner who have died on Côn Sơn and at other places from the date of signing the Paris Agreement, biodata on student Huỳnh Tấn Mẫm, letter from John Spragens to Cardinals, John Spragens' business card, Pacific Basins Report, letter to Wes Michelson, some notes on a conversation with Hồ Ngọc Nhuận, letter to Christopher Jenkins, letter from John Spragens to Fred and others, call by Superior Monk Thích Pháp Lan chairman of the Buddhist Committee Campaigning for the Release of Prisoners, extract from 9 Feb 1974 issue of Thống Nhất, list of military personnel released in Lộc Ninh, statement by imprisoned military personnel of Provisional Revolutionary Government, letter from Thích Minh Hoàng representative of imprisoned monks to all religious followers, statement and list of prisoners transferred to Kontum, newsletter by Prison Improvement Committee, protest letter by civilian personnel of the Provisional Republic Government to the International Commission of Control and Supervision, list of imprisoned intellectuals and students, prison newsletters, declaration of the League of Veterans, evening release of RVN armed forces' press and information office, New Year's letter by RVN Prison Improvement Committee to prisoners, letters by imprisoned intellectuals and students, USAID Vietnam statistical weekly summary, newsletter by pro-peace Vietnamese

Report on famine and rice problem in Quảng Tín, newsletter by certain representatives on current affairs, newsletter on combat by the Ministry for Defence, log of materials sent, USAID Vietnam statistical weekly summary, Pacific Basin Reports, newsletter of the People's Organisation For Demanding the Execution of the Paris Accord, press clippings of Nhân Dân newspaper on RVN's prisons and concentration camps, newsletter of Saigon Students' General Union, Special to American report, list of national cadres and civilians abducted by the Communists since the cease-fire Jan 28 1973, notes by Colonel Võ Đông Giang on the Provisional Revolutionary Government weekly press conference, letter by Dương Văn Minh to the President of the International Commission of Control and Supervision of the Execution of Paris Agreement, newsletter by the league of Minh Mạng and Nguyễn Tri Phương schools on education conference, newsletter on cabinet meeting, declaration of the committee to demand and receive prisoners of the third political segment, photographs of combat in an extra by Tiền Tuyến newspaper, newsletter by Prison Improvement Committee, investment news from Vietnam by Investment Service Centre

rice, poetry, economic crisis, amendment of constitution, cartoon, advertisements, crimes, inflation, South China Sea dispute, public transport competition

South China Sea dispute, foreign aids, social problems, cartoon of Lê Nguyên Khang, cartoon, prisoner exchange, advertisements, workers' rights, public transport competition, peace talks, world politics, inflation, opinions, exports, investment, combat, crimes, peace talks, cartoon of Đinh Xuân Dũng, photographs of markets, oil drilling, map of oil bidding, combat, photograph of combat, cartoon of Trần Đình Ngọc, cartoon of Huỳnh V Hưỡn, photographs of military officials, cartoon of Y Dhe A Drong, demobilization, cartoon of Phan Tấn Hùng, photographs of hijacked plane

corruption, advertisements, economic crisis, foreign aids, photograph of rice boats, prisoner exchange, cartoon, combat, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Hai, photograph of helicopter, photographs of soldiers, opinions, photograph of currency, rice, public transport competition, policing, peace talks, photograph of street artist, cartoon of Châu Kim Nhân, photograph of Richard Cocheo, photograph of Đỗ Kiến Nhiễu, oil drilling, famine in Central Vietnam, smuggling, Cai Lậy attack, photograph and map of combat, world politics, photographs of firing gun

combat, cartoon of Trần Quang Minh, foreign aids, prisoner exchange, Cai Lậy attack, cartoon, opinions, smuggling, famine in Central Vietnam, peace talks, oil drilling, economic crisis, exports, photograph of soldiers, corruption, crimes, advertisements, cartoon of Lương Nhị Kỳ, map of Tống Lê Chân army post, world politics, photograph of waste recycling, photographs of soldiers

combat, advertisements, smuggling, rice, opinions, photograph of helicopter, corruption, crimes, world politics, bureaucratic reform, peace talks, cartoon, foreign aids, photographs of combat, famine in Central Vietnam, map of combat, investments, photographs of soldiers, workers' rights, photograph of strike zone, unemployment, photograph of refugees, Hòa Hảo

investments, oil drilling, advertisements, foreign aids, photographs of theatrical envoy, world politics, refugees, corruption, local elections, economic reports

corruption, economic crisis, opinions, photographs of soldiers, economic measures, foreign aids, advertisements, combat, university entrance exams, bureaucratic reforms, rice, refugees, local elections, third political segment, rice, world politics, photographs of robbers, investments, peace talks, tourism, import-exports, smuggling

foreign aids, opinions, economic measures, oil drilling, crimes, poverty relief, combat, import-export, corruption, cartoon, speech by Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, special to American report, media censorship, tax, Watergate scandal, peace talks, higher education, world politics, crimes, rice, advertisements, investments

opinions, media censorship, oil drilling, world politics, foreign aids, religious peace movement, corruption, smuggling, combat, photographs of combat, cartoon, famine in Central Vietnam, crimes, photograph of media freedom supporters, poverty relief

photographs of police, media freedom movement, world politics, foreign aids, opinions

religious peace movement, opinions, cartoon, media freedom movement, photographs of monks, photographs of religious peace movement, corruption, foreign aids, photographs of media freedom movement, photographs of officials

opinions, economic measures, world politics, media freedom movement, photographs of officials, cartoon, smuggling, combat, foreign aids

Amendment of constitution, land tax, workers' rights, Catholic Church, refugees, inflation, grievances, students, smuggling, corruption, cartoon, world politics, crimes, opinions, literature, advertisements

corruption, Cambodian politics, inflation, cartoon, advertisements, bureaucratic reform, workers' rights, literature, prisoner exchange, advertisements, students, grievances, literature, Catholic Church, South China Sea dispute, rice, poetry, smuggling, combat, abortion, oil drilling, Cabinet resignation, economic crisis, tax, gambling, foreign aids, opinions, crimes, photo of Huynh Tan Mam, foreign aids

corruption, crimes, smuggling, economic crisis, literature, cartoon, prisoner exchange, administrative grievances, South China Sea dispute, combat, refugees, demobilisation, poetry, bureaucratic reform, oil drilling, policing, advertisements, public health, photographs of soldiers, foreign aids, cartoon of Trần Văn Luyện, cartoon of Đỗ Kiến Nhiễu, memoir of a soldier, the Archbishop, cartoon of Trần Văn Ân, refugees, cartoon of Lương Thế Siêu, cartoon ofHuỳnh Ngọc Côn, cartoon of Trần Văn Lắm, peace talks, food crisis in Central Vietnam, cartoon of Ngô Khắc Tĩnh, cartoon of Phó Bá Long, cartoon of Vương Văn Bắc, students, media censorship, opinions, public transport competition, cartoon of Lê Phước Sang, cartoon of Châu Kim Nhân

poetry, literature, cartoon of Vương Văn Bắc, students, media censorship, crimes, foreign aids, peace talks, economic crisis, cartoon of Nguyễn Lưu Viên, cartoon of Phan Quang Đán, cartoon ofLương Nhị Kỳ, cartoon of Nguyễn Bá Cẩn, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Ngãi, students, smuggling, corruption, cartoon of Nguyễn Phú Đức, cartoon of Nguyễn Thị Hai, cartoon of Vũ Công Minh, family planning, cartoon of Trương Thị Bích Diệp, workers' rights, opinions, public transport competition, English translation of Lý Quí Chung's article on April 12 1974, workers' rights, demobilization, photograph of soldiers, cartoon of Lê Công Chất, third segment, photographs of public transport, cartoon of Đinh Xuân Minh, cartoon of Phạm Duy Tuệ, cartoon of Võ Văn Phát, photographs of children

peace talks, cartoon of Trần Trung Dung, smuggling, foreign aids, cartoon of Nguyễn Thị Ly, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Cử, cartoon of Trương Vĩ Trí, corruption, cartoon of Trần Thị Hoa, Watergate scandal, cartoon of Lê Chí Hiếu, urban beautification, economic crisis, cartoon of Huỳnh Ngọc Anh, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Tiết, crimes, poetry, combat, cartoon of Ngô Văn Luôn, smuggling, cartoon of Dương Vy Long, education, cartoon of Đinh Văn Đệ, firing of Nguyễn Văn Ngân, cartoon of Nguyễn Minh Phú, opinions, public transport competition, corruption, combat, opinions, cartoon of Võ Văn Phát, cartoon of Hoàng Thông, cartoon of Trần Văn Quá, cartoon of Diệp Văn Hưng, Buddha Birth Day, photographs of Buddha Birth Day gathering, map of Mõ Vẹt battle, cartoon of Huỳnh Văn Lầu

corruption, cartoon, university exam, refugees, crimes

This item is in two folders. Folder 1 includes crimes, opinions, new economic measures, cartoon, workers' rights, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on 1954, cartoon of Mã Xái, literature, poetry, cartoon of Dương Minh Kính, foreign aids, cartoon of Trần Văn Thung, corruption, cartoon of Phạm Thành Ngọc, economic crisis, cartoon of Nhan Minh Trang, land dispute, cartoon of Trương Xuân Bảo, election, cartoon of Nguyễn Ngọc Bảy, cartoon of Hồ Ngọc Nhuận, cartoon of Nguyễn Bá Lương, public transport competition, higher education crisis, election, banking corruption, senate hearing. Folder 2 includes literature, poetry, cartoon, foreign aids, opinions, corruption, smuggling, peace talks, workers' rights, crimes, new economic measures, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on 1954, land dispute, banking corruption, cartoon of Lê Văn Đồng, higher education crisis, Hòa Hảo, cartoon of Dương Thanh Tồn, senate hearing, public transport competition, cartoon of Trần Văn Đỗ, senate hearing, cartoon of Nguyễn H. Tuân, photographs of Monk Thích Thiện Hòa, cartoon of Phan Thiệp, cartoon of Trần Đình Ngọc, cartoon of Phạm Văn Út

opinions, workers' rights, crimes, social welfare, poetry, cartoon of Đinh Xuân Dũng, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on 1954, foreign aids, peace talks, corruption, senate hearing, economic crisis, cartoon of Nguyễn Tuấn Anh, literature, cartoon, Watergate scandal, world politics, cartoon of Huỳnh Trung Chánh, Catholic Church, refugees, higher education crisis, cartoon of Nguyễn Duy Tài, market merchants' union, unemployment, media regulation, photograph of readers, cartoon of Trần Minh Nhựt, public transport competition

market merchants' unions, Watergate scandal, literature, opinions, cartoon, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on 1954, poetry, cartoon of Trần Minh Nhựt, senate hearing, workers' rights, photographs of refugees, photograph of merchants, corruption, combat, higher education crisis, Hòa Hảo, cartoon of Nguyễn Phúc Liên Bảo, foreign aid, corruption, cartoon of Trần Ngọc Giao, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Hào, crimes, prostitution, religious peace movement, combat, cartoon of Nhữ Văn Úy, public transport competition

religious peace movement, American politics, crimes, opinions, prostitution, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on 1954, poetry, literature, workers' rights, economic crisis, cartoon of Nhữ Văn Úy, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Binh, corruption, foreign aids, combat, cartoon, commemoration of Buddhist crisis 1963, public health, world politics, cartoon of Nguyễn Đức Cung, cartoon of Nguyễn Hữu Thời, peace talks, oil drilling, cartoon of Lê Đình Duyên, public transport competition

cartoon of Huỳnh Ngọc Diêu, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on 1954, cartoon, religious peace movement, crimes, economic crisis, workers' rights, poetry, politics of Indochina, opinions, American politics, literature, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Quí, oil drilling dispute, corruption, public health, cartoon of Ngô Trọng Hiếu, media freedom, cartoon of Vũ Công, public transport competition, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Chi, university entrance exam

religious peace movement, media freedom, corruption, poetry, opinions, peace talks, economic crisis, crimes, workers' rights, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Chi, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on 1954, cartoon, American politics, cartoon of Danh Nở, cartoon of Ma Thất, economic crisis, corruption, cartoon of Trần Văn Ân, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Kim, plane hijacking, photographs of labourers, photographs of religious peace rally

media freedom, crimes, religious peace movement, poetry, world politics, cartoon, opinions, cartoon of Đặng Văn Tiếp, workers' rights, economic crisis, Hòa Hảo, cartoon of Lê Văn Diện, literature, photograph of veteran, photographs of media freedom rally, higher education crisis, cartoon of Trần Văn Thông, photograph of workers' rights committee, foreign aid

literature, cartoon of Trần Văn Thông, cartoon, poetry, media freedom, anti-corruption, foreign aid, photographs of demonstrators for release of political prisoners, photograph of Archbishop of Saigon, religious peace movement, photographs of pastors for anti-corruption movement, public transport competition, world politics, crimes, photographs of representatives, peace talks, speech of president Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, photographs of incident in public transport competition, photographs of representatives on anti-corruption, cartoon of Nguyễn Vĩnh Nghi, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on journalist Nguyễn An Ninh, photographs of demonstrators, cartoon of Trần Văn Trí, cartoon of Trần Hữu Thanh

anti-corruption, statement of Dương Văn Minh, religious peace movement, media censorship, photographs of religious peace movement, opinions, photographs of commemoration of the 1963 coup, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on journalist Nguyễn An Ninh, cartoon of Nguyễn Vĩnh Nghi, photograph of media freedom supporters, workers' rights, photograph of doctor Nguyễn Thị Thanh, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Thuận, photographs of anti-corruption activism, crimes, cartoon of Phan Khắc Từ, photographs of lawyers for anti-corruption, photographs of police, photograph of anti-corruption committee, cartoon, photographs of students' protest against tuition rise, photographs of Buddhist Youths Assembly, Buddhist Youths Assembly, suppression of religious activism, cartoon of Thích Giác Đức, photographs of anti-suppression protesters, photographs of poverty relief, photographs of anti-censorship protesters, cartoon of Nguyễn Phước Đại, photographs of Lower House meeting, poetry, smuggling, poverty relief, cartoon of Lý Văn Hiệp, world politics, cartoon of Đinh Bình Định, photographs of victims of suppression, photographs of Catholic Student Committee for Social Justice, combat, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Chức amendment of media law, proposal by newspapers for media freedom, cartoon of Huỳnh Thanh Vị

cartoon of Huỳnh Thanh Vị, religious peace movement, poverty relief, media censorship, photographs of protesters for media freedom, opinions, photographs of victims of suppression, media censorship, crimes, literature, photographs of combat, cartoon, workers' rights, photographs of poverty relief, cartoon of Đặng Thị Tám, fiction, cartoon of Kiều Mộng Thu, workers' rights, poetry, photographs of protesters, cartoon of Bùi Tường Chiểu, photographs of victims of suppression, economic crisis, world politics, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Hảo, combat, anti-corruption, smuggling

cartoon, university exam, investment, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Ngân, oil drilling, peace talks, opinions, combat, photograph of US pilot, corruption, refugee, crimes, exports, foreign aids, Hòa Hảo, media censorship, photograph of youth fashion, advertisements

South China Sea dispute, refugee, foreign aids, peace talks, third segment, taxes, smuggling, taxes, photograph of tanks, advertisements, exports, opinions, investments, corruption, university exam, oil drilling, cartoon, economic measures

cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Ca, cartoon, media censorship, crimes, social problems, cartoon of Mặc Giao, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on 1954, opinions, crimes, workers' rights, cartoon of Vương Sơn Thông, commentaries, poetry, workers' rights, smuggling, economic measures, combat, cartoon of Trần Ngọc Châu, fiction, cartoon of Lê Tấn Trọng, cartoon of Lâm Hoàng Hôn

cartoon, fiction, memoir of Trần Tấn Quốc on 1954, poetry, opinions, cartoon of Lâm Hoàng Hôn, crimes, social problems, taxes, refugees, cartoon of Phan Xuân Huy, workers' rights, photographs of refugees case, media censorship, corruption, cartoon of Trương Tiến Đạt, photographs of coconut monk's confrontation with RVN, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Thống, cartoon of Nguyễn Công Hoan, university exam, foreign aids, cartoon of Nguyễn Văn Bảy, cartoon of Trần Cao Để

Broad-ranging collection with material including academic papers, news clippings, interview transcripts. Includes a number of photographs by Wilfred Burchett.

Includes original photos, briefings, plans for and evaluations of marine training exercise Operation Dull Knife. Also includes material relating to Marr's article 'Counterinsurgency Challenges: Exercise Dull Knife, 1963', published in Leatherneck magazine.

David Marr gave a presentation titled 'Vietnamese Political Culture in the 20th Century' at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 7 Jun 2002. The presentation itself is not in this item.

Also included the International Conference on Vietnamese Studies and the Enchancement of International Co-operation, Jul 15 1998.

Includes index.

Includes partial index.

Includes index.

Includes index.

Trip involved the Indochina Studies Committee meeting in New York and Joing Committee on Southeast Asia meeting in Aix-en-Provence.

Includes index.

Papers include a copy of 'Southeast Asian Studies in China: A Report,' to which David Marr contributed; 'Southeast Asian hua-ch'iao in Chinese history writing,' Wang Gungwu.

Also includes list of Vietnam Updates publications

Also includes lists of Vietnam Updates publications and previous conferences.

Also includes list of Vietnam Updates publications

Includes Ford Foundation report, financials.

Also includes a photograph of some participants, including David Marr.

Also includes report on the Vietnam Updates conferences to date, papers presented at the 1994 conference.

Includes a subfolder with material relating to Vietnamese participants.

Swift was part of the Office of Strategic Services team that met with Ho Chi Minh in Sep 1945.

Includes paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Washington, Mar 1984, "Vietnam 1945: Some Questions."

Captain Louis Levitas was base commander at Szemao Army Air Base, Yunnan Province, Jan - Aug 1945. Also includes correspondence with Professor Andrew Levitas, his son, who donated the material.

Also includes some correspondence relating to "Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885 - 1925", first publiched by UC Press in 1971.

Includes the final report from the Vietnam-Canada Information Technology Project, 31 Jul 2001 and 'Internet Filtering in Vietnam in 2005-2006: A Country Study' by the OpenNet Initiative, Aug 2006. Item is divided into categories by year: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003+.

Also includes a sub-folder of later pieces on Vietnam gaining internet access.

Material consists of memoranda, agreements and correspondence.

Includes drafts, notes, correspondence, memoranda.

Includes drafts, notes, correspondence, memoranda.

Divided into sub-files. These are 'Australian visitors to Vietnam, 1998' which includes material on Robert Doyle, David Holm, Tr?n Th? V

Divided into sub-files. These are 'Australian visitors to Vietnam, 2000' which includes material on Barbara Piscitelli and Amos Thomas; 'Vietnam visitors to Oz, 1999', which includes material on Professor Cao Xu

Divided into sub-files by year.

Marr was elected as a Fellow in 1990. Other material relates to discussion on academic exchanges with Vietnam and ethical research practice.

Conference titled, "Doi Moi: Vietnam's Economic Renovation". Material incudes programs and lists of presenters, photographs, papers, notes, some correspondence. Includes two sub-folders, 'Australian Embassy Hanoi' and 'Backfile'.

Includes news clippings from ANU Reporter announcing the project.

Includes seminar papers, issues papers,

Includes conference papers from 'The 'New' Vietnam: Prospects for Australia', held Jun 1991 at Monash University.

Includes draft proposals and correspondence, and notes on meetings with Michael Gallagher, then-Assistant Secretary, Higher Education Division, DEET. Also includes 'National Strategy for Vietnamese Language Studies' report, Victoria University of Technology, Jun 1991.

Includes memoranda, letters of concern regarding the future of the Vietnamese language program, draft proposals.