Asian Voices in a Post-Colonial Age Vietnam, India and Beyond

Name: Asian Voices in a Post-Colonial Age Vietnam, India and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780521868853

ISBN-10: 0521868858

ISBN-13: 9780521868853

Edition: 2007

Authors: Susan Bayly

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This innovative study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan life trajectories is based on anthropological and historical research in Vietnam and India, two great Asian societies with contrasting experiences of empire, decolonisation and the rise and fall of the twentieth-century socialist world system. Building on the author's long-standing research experience in India and on remarkable family narratives collected during fieldwork in northern Vietnam, the book deals with epic events and complex social transformations from a perspective that emphasizes the personal and the familial. Its central theme is the extraordinary mobility of intelligentsia lives. The author explores the role of the…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/18/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 294
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of maps


List of illustrations


Acknowledgements



Introduction



The modern intellectual family: separation, provision and nurture



Narrating family lives in present-day Hanoi



The pains and perils of intelligentsia life



Comparative modernities: India as a domain of socialist postcoloniality



Cosmopolitan spaces in revolutionary times



Vistas of modernity in the insurgent countryside



At home and beyond in the new socialist era



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index