Understanding Vietnam

Name: Understanding Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780520201576

ISBN-10: 0520201574

ISBN-13: 9780520201576

Edition: 1995

Authors: Neil L. Jamieson

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The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the Vietnamese clung to and fought over their own competing visions of what Vietnam was and what it might become. To understand the war, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture, and their ways of looking at the world. Neil L. Jamieson, after many years of living and working in Vietnam, has written the book that provides this understanding. Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/10/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface



How the Vietnamese See the World



Confrontation with the West, 1858-1930



The Yin of Early Modern Vietnamese Culture Challenges the Yang of Tradition, 1932-1939



The End of Colonialism and the Emergence of Two Competing Models for Building a Modern Nation, 1940-1954



Yin and Yang in Modern Guise, 1955-1970



Continuity and Change in Vietnamese Culture and Society, 1968-1975



Another Cycle Unfolds


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index