Understanding Vietnam
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. Throug...
| Main Author: | Jamieson, Neil L. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1993]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 428 pages) : map. |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.