TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fox,Diane Niblack
AU  - Gilbert,Marc Jason
AU  - Kukk,Christopher L.
AU  - Lessard,Micheline
AU  - Ostrowski,Brian
AU  - Quinn-Judge,Sophie
AU  - Thompson,C.Michele
AU  - Wehrle,Edmund F.
AU  - Wilcox,Wynn
TI  - Vietnam and the West
SN  - 9781501711640
AV  - DS556.42 .V535 2010
U1  - 959.7 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Military History
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: THE CO-FIGURATION OF VIETNAM AND THE WEST --; PART I.PRECOLONIAL ENCOUNTERS (TO 1862) --; THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN NOM LITERATURE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY VIETNAM: FUSING EUROPEAN CONTENT AND LOCAL EXPRESSION --; JEAN MARIE DESPIAU: UNJUSTLY MALIGNED PHYSICIAN IN THE MEDICAL SERVICE OF THE NGUYEN --; DANG DUC TUAN AND THE COMPLEXITIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY VIETNAMESE CHRISTIAN IDENTITY --; PART II.FRENCH AND AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS (1862-1975) --; MORE THAN HALF THE SKY: VIETNAMESE WOMEN AND ANTI-FRENCH POLITICAL ACTIVISM, 1858-1945 --; PERSUADING THE ENEMY: VIETNAMESE APPEALS TO NON- WHITE FORCES OF OCCUPATION, 1945-1975 --; THE PARADOX OF WESTERN-STYLE TRADE UNIONISM IN SOUTH VIETNAM --; THE SEARCH FOR A THIRD FORCE IN VIETNAM: FROM THE QUIET AMERICAN TO THE PARIS PEACE AGREEMENT --; PART III.RECENT ENCOUNTERS (1975-PRESENT) --; AGENT ORANGE, VIETNAM, AND THE UNITED STATES: BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES --; STRATEGIC WATERS, TRAGIC WATERS: WATER PRIVATIZATION IN VIETNAM --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; restricted access
N2  - This sound interpretation of Vietnamese cultural attitudes contends that a major reason for American difficulties in Viet-Nam has been the failure to appreciate how wide the gulf is between Viet-Nam and the West. Professor Smith first describes Vietnamese political and social traditions and shows how they were challenged by the West after 1858. He examines Viet-Nam's search for independence and modernization in the first half of this century, contrasts the two governments of the partitioned country during the years 1954-1963, and stresses the critical need to reassess attitudes toward Viet-Nam. His sophisticated, ambitious survey of Viet-Nam history will have a lasting value that sets it apart from the scores of ephemeral books on this country
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711640
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501711640
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501711640/original
ER  -