Culture and Politics in
Vietnam (Page 1)
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| Hess, Martha. Then the Americans Came : Voices from Vietnam. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993; New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. | |
| Hickey, Gerald C. Shattered World : Adaptation and Survival
among Vietnam's Highland Peoples During the Vietnam War.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. *CORE* This work, by a pre-eminent anthropologist who is extensively published in this area, deals with the profound effects of the Indochina wars on the highland ethnic groups (also known as Montagnards) in terms of displacement, survival and the effects on their culture. It provides a unique insight into an area usually ignored or lightly covered in other sources. |
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| Huynh Kim Khanh. Vietnamese Communism : 1925-1945.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. *CORE* The definitive study of the implanting and evolution of a European anti-capitalist ideology on a Vietnamese socio-political conflict of anti-colonial nationalism and anti-feudal peasant movements within the context of the debate about modernization. The work traces the formation of the ICP, the ultra-nationalist, non social reform era of the 20s, the anti-nationalist international era in the 30s, to a balance emerging at the end of WWII and Ho Chi Minh's role in this process. Also discussed are the Trotskyite and Stalinist elements during the thirties. |
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| Jamieson, Neil L. Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993. *CORE* An important study which tries to place the Indochina Wars within the context of the century long internal debate in Vietnamese society concerning the means and direction of modernization in the wake of the French conquest. Using a variety of Vietnamese cultural and political sources, Jamieson seeks to place these events in the framework of the struggle to define Vietnamese tradition and society within the context of the need to evolve the culture in response to the modern world, a topic which still lies at the heart of much of today's Vietnamese politics. |
