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Understanding Vietnam / Neil L. Jamieson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 428 pages) : mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520916586
  • 0520916581
  • 0585282803
  • 9780585282800
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding Vietnam.DDC classification:
  • 959.7 20
LOC classification:
  • DS556.8 .J36 1993eb
Other classification:
  • 15.75
  • 73.06
  • RR 55977
Online resources:
Contents:
How the Vietnamese see the world -- Confrontation with the world, 1858-1930 -- Yin of early modern Vietnamese culture challenges the Yang of tradition, 1932-1939 -- End of colonialism and the emergence of two competing models for building a modern nation, 1940-1945 -- Yin and Yang in modern guise, 1955-1970 -- Continuity and change in Vietnamese culture and society, 1968-1975 -- Another cycle unfolds.
Summary: Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century Vietnam. Against the background of traditional Vietnamese culture, he takes us through the saga of modern Vietnamese history and Western involvement in the country, from the coming of the French in 1858 through the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout his analysis, he allows the Vietnamese to speak for themselves through poetry, fiction, essays, newspaper editorials and reports of interviews and personal experiences. --From publisher's description.
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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Preliminary page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-412) and index.

Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century Vietnam. Against the background of traditional Vietnamese culture, he takes us through the saga of modern Vietnamese history and Western involvement in the country, from the coming of the French in 1858 through the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout his analysis, he allows the Vietnamese to speak for themselves through poetry, fiction, essays, newspaper editorials and reports of interviews and personal experiences. --From publisher's description.

How the Vietnamese see the world -- Confrontation with the world, 1858-1930 -- Yin of early modern Vietnamese culture challenges the Yang of tradition, 1932-1939 -- End of colonialism and the emergence of two competing models for building a modern nation, 1940-1945 -- Yin and Yang in modern guise, 1955-1970 -- Continuity and change in Vietnamese culture and society, 1968-1975 -- Another cycle unfolds.

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