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Vietnam and the West / ed. by Wynn Wilcox.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501711640
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.7 22
LOC classification:
  • DS556.42 .V535 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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