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Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội

Improvisations between Worlds

By: Stan BH Tan-Tangbau,Lưu Quang Minh,Quyền Thiện Đắc

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Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội

Improvisations between Worlds

By: Stan BH Tan-Tangbau,Lưu Quang Minh,Quyền Thiện Đắc

Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations between Worlds examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist rule—perceived as the "music of the enemy" and "ideologically decadent"—in the Vietnamese capital of Hà Nội. After disappearing from the scene in 1954 following the end of the First Indochina War, jazz reemerged in the public sphere decades later at the end of the Cold War. Since then, Hà Nội has established itself as a vital and vibrant jazz center, complete with a full jazz program in the national conservatoire. Featuring interviews with principal players involved in cultivating the scene from past to present, this book presents the sociocultural encounters between musicians and the larger powers enmeshed in the broader political economy, detailing jazz’s journey to garner respect comparable to classical music as an art form possessing high artistic value. Ethnographical sketches explore how Vietnamese musicians learn and play jazz while sustaining and nurturing the scene, providing insight as to how jazz managed to grow in such an environment. Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội sheds light on those underlying caveats that allow Vietnamese jazz musicians to navigate the middle grounds between "worlds"—between music and politics—not as an act of resistance, but as realisation of artistic expression.

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1000555682

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Good Evening, Vietnam

The Aftermath of an Unknown Journey

By: Hoa Minh Truong

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Good Evening, Vietnam

The Aftermath of an Unknown Journey

By: Hoa Minh Truong

The dramatic novel Good Evening, Vietnam is a love story interrupted by war.During his tour of duty in Vietnam, a young U.S. chopper co-pilot falls in love with a Vietnamese girl. After his chopper is shot down, he is taken prisoner by the Vietcong. Under a POW exchange in 1973, he returns to America, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend.After the Vietcong take over Saigon, they imprison hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese who worked with the Americans, force others into the jungles, and denounce the children of U.S. soldiers. Most of these abandoned children were left homeless, some became gangsters, and others joined bandit gangs.Many years later, when the American pilot’s mental health finally recovers from his ordeals, he travels back to Vietnam for closure. There he is robbed by a gang leader, who later looks at the wallet of the man he robbed, and finds a surprising photo.Good Evening, Vietnam is the stunning story of a reunion that was too long in coming.

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1618977881

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Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam

Quy?n V?n Minh and Jazz in Hà N?i

By: Stan BH Tan-Tangbau,Quy?n V?n Minh

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Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam

Quy?n V?n Minh and Jazz in Hà N?i

By: Stan BH Tan-Tangbau,Quy?n V?n Minh

Shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2022 Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one of the most preeminent jazz musicians in Vietnam. Considered a pioneer in the country, Minh is often publicly recognized as the “godfather of Vietnamese jazz.” Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam tells the story of the music as it intertwined with Minh’s own narrative. Stan BH Tan-Tangbau details Minh’s life story, telling how Minh pioneered jazz as an original genre even while navigating the trials and tribulations of a fervent socialist revolution, of the ideological battle that was the Cold War, of Vietnam’s war against the United States, and of the political changes during the Đổi Mới period between the mid-1980s and the 1990s. Minh worked tirelessly and delivered two breakthrough solo recitals in 1988 and 1989, marking the first time jazz was performed in the public sphere in the socialist state. To gain jazz acceptance as a mainstream musical art form, Minh founded Minh Jazz Club. With the release of his debut album of original compositions in 2000, Minh shaped the nascent genre of Vietnamese jazz. Minh’s endeavors kickstarted the momentum, from his performing jazz in public, teaching jazz both formally and informally, and contributing to the shaping of an original Vietnamese voice to stand out among the many styles in the jazz world. Most importantly, Minh generated a public space for musicians to play and for the Vietnamese to listen. His work eventually helped to gain jazz the credibility necessary at the national conservatoire to offer instruction in a professional music education program.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496836375

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Vietnam: A Natural History

By: Eleanor Jane Sterling,Martha Maud Hurley,Le Duc Minh

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Vietnam: A Natural History

By: Eleanor Jane Sterling,Martha Maud Hurley,Le Duc Minh

A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world’s biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an unusual mixture of tropical and temperate species. This book is the first comprehensive account of Vietnam’s natural history in English. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and thirty-five original watercolor illustrations, the book offers a complete tour of the country’s plants and animals along with a full discussion of the factors shaping their evolution and distribution. Separate chapters focus on northern, central, and southern Vietnam, regions that encompass tropics, subtropics, mountains, lowlands, wetland and river regions, delta and coastal areas, and offshore islands. The authors provide detailed descriptions of key natural areas to visit, where a traveler might explore limestone caves or glimpse some of the country’s twenty-seven monkey and ape species and more than 850 bird species. The book also explores the long history of humans in the country, including the impact of the Vietnam-American War on plants and animals, and describes current efforts to conserve Vietnam’s complex, fragile, and widely threatened biodiversity.

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Yale University Press

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0300128215

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Psychology Moving East

The Status Of Western Psychology In Asia And Oceania

By: Geoffrey H Blowers,Alison M Turtle,Phom Minh Hac,Hamida A Begum

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Psychology Moving East

The Status Of Western Psychology In Asia And Oceania

By: Geoffrey H Blowers,Alison M Turtle,Phom Minh Hac,Hamida A Begum

Psychologists from nineteen countries in Asia and Oceania report on the expansion of western psychology in the region at both the academic and the professional levels. With its own network of associations, conferences, and journals, the comminity of psychologists in the East has braved new frontiers for the discipline, yet its achievements are litt

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Routledge

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1000308472

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Hành Trình Van Hoá: A Journey Through Vietnamese Culture

A Second-Year Language Course

By: Tri C. Tran,Minh-Tam Tran

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Hành Trình Van Hoá: A Journey Through Vietnamese Culture

A Second-Year Language Course

By: Tri C. Tran,Minh-Tam Tran

This intermediate textbook continues to develop students’ skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Vietnamese at the second-year language learning level. The book is presented as a linguistic and cultural journey of a family through twelve selected cities in Vietnam. Each chapter is organized into sections on dialogue, grammar, reading, practice exercises, and vocabulary.

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University Press of America

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0761862447

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Chào Bạn!

An Introduction to Vietnamese

By: Tri C. Tran,Minh-Tam Tran

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Chào Bạn!

An Introduction to Vietnamese

By: Tri C. Tran,Minh-Tam Tran

Chào Ban! is an interactive language program of introductory Vietnamese intended for use by non-native students, as well as students of Vietnamese heritage without a solid knowledge of the language. The entire program uses the communicative approach, which focuses on teaching the language for the ultimate purpose of using it in everyday settings. Chào Ban! consists of a textbook and workbook manual that adhere to the following practical objectives: to make the whole program straightforward in presentation, user-friendly, practical, interesting to students, and most importantly culture-based.

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0761837361

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property

By: Minh-Ha T. Pham

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property

By: Minh-Ha T. Pham

In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” using Balenciaga’s hashtags to circulate memes revealing the source of the bags’ design. In Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the way social media users monitor the fashion market for the appearance of knockoff fashion, design theft, and plagiarism. Tracing the history of fashion antipiracy efforts back to the 1930s, she foregrounds the work of policing that has been tacitly outsourced to social media. Despite the social media concern for ethical fashion and consumption and the good intentions behind design policing, Pham shows that it has ironically deepened forms of social and market inequality, as it relies on and reinforces racist and colonial norms and ideas about what constitutes copying and what counts as creativity. These struggles over ethical fashion and intellectual property, Pham demonstrates, constitute deeper struggles over the colonial legacies of cultural property in digital and global economies.

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Duke University Press

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147802321X

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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty

Vietnam now and beyond

By: Minh Son Le,Tarlok Singh,Duc-Tho Nguyen

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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty

Vietnam now and beyond

By: Minh Son Le,Tarlok Singh,Duc-Tho Nguyen

This book uses Alan Winters’ analytical framework to investigate the effects of trade liberalisation on economic growth and poverty in Vietnam. The country launched a programme of economic and trade reforms, known as Doi Moi, in the mid-1980s which placed the economy on a transitional path from central planning to a market economy. Since then Vietnam has attained a number of remarkable achievements in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction. Although some formidable problems (such as inequality and inflation) remain, it is apparent that trade liberalisation has been associated with a big reduction in poverty. The analysis in the book focuses on the microeconomic (household) level, and there is an emphasis on tracing the effects of trade liberalisation through the four separate channels identified by Winters. Such in-depth and micro-level analyses yield new insights that support important policy lessons and recommendations for Vietnam in particular and, more generally, for similar developing countries.

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1317501535

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HÀNH TRANG NGÔN NG?: LANGUAGE LUGGAGE FOR VIETNAM

A First-Year Language Course

By: Tri C. Tran,Minh-Tam Tran

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HÀNH TRANG NGÔN NG?: LANGUAGE LUGGAGE FOR VIETNAM

A First-Year Language Course

By: Tri C. Tran,Minh-Tam Tran

This first-year Vietnamese language textbook introduces college students to all aspects of the Vietnamese language and culture in twelve comprehensive chapters. Each chapter begins with a list of active vocabulary used for the selected topic, followed by dialogue and grammar utilized in everyday situations by native speakers. A Vietnamese proverb reflecting each chapter’s topic reveals a different cultural component of Vietnam. Students can practice what they’ve learned with exercises at the end of each chapter. The book is enhanced with an answer key to the exercises, grammar indices, and full vocabulary lists.

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0761862420

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Go Alone

By: Tran Nhuan Minh

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Go Alone

By: Tran Nhuan Minh

For poet Tran Nhuan Minh, it is not the conflicts which are the center of poetry, but the way through and the way out of those conflicts... In this sense, Tran Nhuan Minh’s poetry is a warning and awakening messages... it challenges the boundaries between left and right, right and wrong, orthodox and unorthodox, south and north, past and future... Anyday, there are still unhappy people in this world, who need to share their faith and unhappiness… they will still search to read Tran Nhuan Minh’s poems. NGUYEN DUC TUNG (Poet and literary critic in Canada)

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Ukiyoto Publishing

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9362696347

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A Humble Vietnamese Woman

Multiple Colorful Lives to Be Dyed by Society

By: Hòa Minh Truong

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A Humble Vietnamese Woman

Multiple Colorful Lives to Be Dyed by Society

By: Hòa Minh Truong

The term “ladies first” is simply a verbal courtesy in Western culture. In reality, women receive unfair treatment in earning power and on nearly every level where it counts in society. The worst situations exist in Asian and African regions, including the Middle East. This book recounts a humble Vietnamese woman’s life. Indeed, the common circumstance of a female’s lower position and gender discrimination is influenced by history, including the religious beliefs espoused by Confucius. This woman’s family lived in central Vietnam, but had to flee their village because of the invading terrorist Vietcong. Her family had become dissidents in their own homeland. Moving to Saigon, they worked hard to rebuild a new life, but everything was taken from them after the Vietcong won the war. After living a year in a refugee camp, she ultimately resettled into a new life in Australia. This brave woman lived, worked, and suffered through the county’s colonial French period, through the democratic government of South Vietnam, and later survived the ruthless regime of the Communist takeover. Her dramatic true story blends the history, culture, and religious concerns that have affected millions of Vietnamese women, while also reflecting the panorama of the Vietnamese people

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1631359045

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9781631359040

Colloquial Vietnamese

The Complete Course for Beginners

By: Bac Hoai Tran,Ha Minh Nguyen,Tuan Duc Vuong,Que Vuong

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Colloquial Vietnamese

The Complete Course for Beginners

By: Bac Hoai Tran,Ha Minh Nguyen,Tuan Duc Vuong,Que Vuong

Colloquial Vietnamese: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Vietnamese as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Vietnamese in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Vietnamese is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout. Key features include: A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Vietnam. An overview of the sounds of Vietnamese Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Vietnamese is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Vietnamese. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

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1317305744

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Tides of Insecurity: Vietnam and the Growing Challenge from Non-traditional Maritime Threats

By: Phan Xuan Dung,To Minh Son

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Tides of Insecurity: Vietnam and the Growing Challenge from Non-traditional Maritime Threats

By: Phan Xuan Dung,To Minh Son

While the South China Sea dispute remains Vietnam’s top security concern, the country also confronts a variety of growing non-traditional threats, such as illegal fishing, maritime violence, smuggling, ecological degradation and climate change. These issues adversely affect Vietnam’s external relations, socio-economic development, marine ecosystems and political stability, while engendering and exacerbating regional tensions. In response, at the national level, Vietnam has focused on building a blue economy and strengthening its law enforcement capacity. At the international level, Vietnam has participated in a variety of bilateral and multilateral cooperative mechanisms. However, these efforts have been impeded by internal and external factors, such as corruption, inadequate capacity and lack of budget, as well as ASEAN’s institutional limitations and sovereignty sensitivities. To better confront these multifaceted maritime issues, Vietnam will need to (1) formulate a comprehensive national strategy for maritime security; (2) streamline the overlapping responsibilities of maritime security agencies; (3) enhance its maritime domain awareness; (4) ensure proper policy and investment to improve climate resilience and coastal development; and (5) optimize its approach to multilateralism.

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ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

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9815104160

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Overconfident

How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID

By: Roberta Gatti,Daniel Lederman,Rachel Yuting Fan,Arian Hatefi,Ha Minh Nguyen,Anja Sautmann,Joseph Martin Sax,Christina Wood,Sultan Abdulaziz Alturki,Claudio Jeremias Rojas

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Overconfident

How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID

By: Roberta Gatti,Daniel Lederman,Rachel Yuting Fan,Arian Hatefi,Ha Minh Nguyen,Anja Sautmann,Joseph Martin Sax,Christina Wood,Sultan Abdulaziz Alturki,Claudio Jeremias Rojas

Overconfident: How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID This report examines the region’s economic prospects in 2021, forecasting that the recovery will be both tenuous and uneven as per capita GDP level stays below pre-pandemic levels. COVID-19 was a stress-test for the region’s public health systems, which were already overwhelmed even before the pandemic. Indeed, a decade of lackluster economic reforms left a legacy of large public sectors and high public debt that effectively crowded out investments in social services such as public health. This edition points out that the region’s health systems were not only ill-prepared for the pandemic, but suffered from over-confidence, as authorities painted an overly optimistic picture in self-assessments of health system preparedness. Going forward, governments must improve data transparency for public health and undertake reforms to remedy historical underinvestment in public health systems.

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World Bank Publications

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1464817987

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The Dark Journey

Inside the Reeducation Camps of Viet Cong

By: Hoa Minh Truong

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The Dark Journey

Inside the Reeducation Camps of Viet Cong

By: Hoa Minh Truong

Two days after Saigon fell to the communists, Hoa Minh Truong walked along the path leading to the Tan Xuyen village council. He had been there many times during his army service but this time he was filled with fear. The extra-tight security included a young Viet Cong trooper who clutched a Russian-made AK-47 automatic rifle in his small hands. The gun was just one of many multi-death tools supplied in the name of revolution by the major communist powers to Vietnam's communists. The trooper could not have been more than fifteen years old. In the yard next to the building Hoa noticed a huge heap of uniforms, helmets, boots, belts and ammunition. All of these items had been dumped there when the South Vietnam government surrendered and ordered its forces to disarm. Hoa was on the losing side of the war for reasons that, to him, remained unclear and unacceptable. Now, he and many thousands of others were being forced into so-called re-education camps. Held there without trial, these prisoners faced terrible conditions and cruel punishments. Many did not survive, but Hoa did. In this remarkable book, he offers his story to the world. Author Hoa Minh Truong is a well-published author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry in the Vietnamese language. He now lives in Perth, Australia with his wife and daughter.

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1609111613

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Overcoming Business Journeys

A collection of stories and separate notes

By: Phan Minh Thong

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Overcoming Business Journeys

A collection of stories and separate notes

By: Phan Minh Thong

Overcoming Business Journeys comprises twenty-six short stories and separate notes about business and life in Vietnam and some parts of the World. Each story has unique characters with different living circumstances, and in each story, there is a person who is passionate about starting up a business. The book's first part tells us about life and business during the Covid-19 pandemic, the difficulties these people face and the solutions they find to help them succeed. The next part concerns the difficulties and obstacles people face trying to succeed in international business. Besides dramatic business stories, there are simple stories about Vietnamese women and art. In conclusion, Overcoming Business Journeys is a colorful picture of life that anyone who reads can find a part of themselves in.

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novum premium Verlag

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3991302527

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The Dialectical and Scientific Bases for Developing the Eastern Medicine More Fastly and Rightly

By: Thuy Nguyen Minh et al.

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The Dialectical and Scientific Bases for Developing the Eastern Medicine More Fastly and Rightly

By: Thuy Nguyen Minh et al.

So far in the world, the Traditional Medicine has been and is contributing significantly to the career of care, protection and improvement of public health. Through “Strategy about the Traditional Medicine of WHO: 2014-2023”, we find, WHO has very respectful and focus for development of the traditional medicine at all the areas and nations.

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Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA

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1649976496

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We fight for our long-lasting Vietnam

By: Luong Minh Cu

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We fight for our long-lasting Vietnam

By: Luong Minh Cu

The poetry collection “We fight for our long-lasting Viet Nam” is selected by Associate Prof. Dr. Luong Minh Cu. The poetry collection’s name has hinted at a generation of soldiers battling and writing poems. When reading the collection, we will get to know talented generals like Senior Lieutenant General Tran Van Tra, and Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Cam, who used to compose poems while directly commanding the battlefield. War is a harsh challenge in life, but war also toughened a generation of soldiers to become generals and poets. Each artist is a secretary of an era, then the poets wearing military uniforms are the secretaries of blood and flower, they combine the souls of their generations in the poems, remembering a time with everyone sacrificed for the country and two words: Viet Nam. Their poems are full of feelings and the soul’s delicacy in the beauty of the country and its people.

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When the Moon Waxes Red

Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics

By: Trinh T. Minh-ha

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When the Moon Waxes Red

Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics

By: Trinh T. Minh-ha

In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology. When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductive analyses, even those that appear politically adroit. The multiply-hyphenated peoples of color are not simply placed in a duality between two cultural heritages; throughout, Trinh describes the predicament of having to live "a difference that has no name and too many names already." She argues for multicultural revision of knowledge so that a new politics can transform reality rather than merely ideologize it. By rewriting the always emerging, already distorted place of struggle, such work seeks to "beat the master at his own game.

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113520456X

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Elsewhere, Within Here

Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event

By: Trinh T. Minh-ha

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Elsewhere, Within Here

Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event

By: Trinh T. Minh-ha

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha is one of the most powerful and articulate voices in both independent filmmaking and cultural politics. Elsewhere, Within Here is an engaging look at travel across national borders--as a foreigner, a tourist, an immigrant, a refugee—in a pre- and post-9/11 world. Who is welcome where? What does it mean to feel out of place in the country you call home? When does the stranger appear in these times of dark metamorphoses? These are some of the issues addressed by the author as she examines the cultural meaning and complexities of travel, immigration, home and exile. The boundary, seen both as a material and immaterial event, is where endings pass into beginnings. Building upon themes present in her earlier work on hybridity and displacement in the median passage, and illuminating the ways in which "every voyage can be said to involve a re-siting of boundaries," Trinh T. Minh-ha leads her readers through an investigation of what it means to be an insider and an outsider in this "epoch of global fear." Elsewhere, Within Here is essential reading for those interested in contemporary feminist thought and postcolonial studies.

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1136942793

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A Mindsponge-Based Investigation into the Psycho-Religious Mechanism Behind Suicide Attacks

By: Quan-Hoang Vuong,Minh-Hoang Nguyen,Tam-Tri Le

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A Mindsponge-Based Investigation into the Psycho-Religious Mechanism Behind Suicide Attacks

By: Quan-Hoang Vuong,Minh-Hoang Nguyen,Tam-Tri Le

The book examines the psycho-religious mechanism behind the violent extremism of suicide attacks in the post-9/11 world. It employs the mindsponge concept, an original dataset, and original research results obtained from the authors' statistical investigations using the Hamiltonian Markov chain Monte Carlo technique. It provides insights and implications for policymakers and strategists in their efforts to engage in peace talks and reduce violent conflicts worldwide.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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8366675580

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Vietnam's Socialist Servants

Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity

By: Minh T. N. Nguyen

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Vietnam's Socialist Servants

Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity

By: Minh T. N. Nguyen

Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s, domestic service has become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban life in the rapidly changing country. This book analyzes the ways in which the practices and discourses of domestic service serve to forge and contest emerging class identities in post-reform Vietnam. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including ethnographies, interviews, and narratives, it shows that such practices and discourses are rooted in cultural notions of gender and rural-urban difference and enduring socialist structures of feeling, which, in turn, clash with the realities of growing differentiation. Domestic workers’ experiences reveal negotiations with class boundaries actively set by the urban middle class, who seek distinction through emerging notions and practices of domesticity. These boundaries are nevertheless riddled with gender and class anxiety on the side of the latter, partly because of the very struggles and contestations of the domestic workers. More broadly, Minh T. N. Nguyen links the often invisible intimate dynamics of class formation in the domestic sphere with wider political economic processes in a post-socialist country embarking on marketization while retaining the political control of a party-state. As a pioneering ethnographic study of domestic service in Vietnam today, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian culture & society, social anthropology, gender studies, human geography and development studies.

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1317690613

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God’S Miracles

His Faith, and His Escape from Vietnam by Boat

By: Reverend Dr. Minh Van Lam

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God’S Miracles

His Faith, and His Escape from Vietnam by Boat

By: Reverend Dr. Minh Van Lam

Reverend Doctor Minh Van Lam was born into a Buddhist family in 1939 in Bac Lieu Province, South Vietnam. His mother said family and friends thought he would live until three years after his birth. After he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ in 1947, when he was eight years old, he asked God to let him live until he was eighteen years old so that he could work and make money for his mother, and then he would die. But God performed miracles, allowing him to continue living. These are some highlights from his early career: He graduated from the National School of Pedagogy in Saigon in 1959. He graduated from the English Language School of the Defense Language Institute in Lackland Air Force Base to become a teacher of the English language in 1968. He was a public elementary school principal and high school teacher in Soc Trang, South Vietnam, as well as the Armed Forces Language School instructor of the South Vietnam Army in Saigon. He holds a bachelor of arts in biblical studies from the Washington Bible College in Lanham, Maryland, a master of divinity from the Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, Maryland, and a doctor of ministry from the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia. He has been a mission pastor of Grand Ave Baptist Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas; Vietnamese Hope Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia; Vietnamese United Baptist Church in Austin, Texas; First Baptist Church of Pensacola, Florida; Vietnamese Gospel Baptist Church in Orlando, Florida; and Vietnamese Gospel Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia (from 1987 to 1995 and 2010 to the present). He was an adjunct professor of the Boyce Bible College of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Extension and the John Leland Center for Theological Studies in Arlington, Virginia, and was vice president of the Vietnamese Baptist Theological School in Dallas, Texas. He has been a speaker at Vietnamese National Church conferences in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, as well as a speaker for the Alpha and Omega Program at Vietnam Public Radio in Washington, DC. His sermons may be found online at www.vietgospel.org, www.vietchristian.com, and www.tinlanhhyvong.com.

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Better Economics for the Earth: A Lesson from Quantum and Information Theories

By: Quan-Hoang Vuong,Minh-Hoang Nguyen

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Better Economics for the Earth: A Lesson from Quantum and Information Theories

By: Quan-Hoang Vuong,Minh-Hoang Nguyen

Learning from the quantum and information theories, we provide a new definition of value, which is expected to help economists relax assumptions and loosen established economic principles in order to change and evolve. The new definition is also expected to enable social scientists to address newly arising phenomena or events that are not accounted for by existing value systems, such as environmental crises, artificial intelligence (AI), and interdisciplinary information, more proactively and productively. We hope that, by incorporating the quantum physics perspective into the interpretation of information and value, social scientists, particularly economists, will offer more reliable predictions and advice for societal transitions toward sustainability. Hanoi, July 21, 2024

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Communicative English for Buddhism-Elementary and Intermediate Levels

By: Minh Thanh

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Communicative English for Buddhism-Elementary and Intermediate Levels

By: Minh Thanh

The book has been written to meet the million Buddhists' demand for their belief communication. English native speaking countries are approaching Buddhism and reading Buddhism books, therefore this book will help them a lot teach English to monks and nuns in Buddhist countries. Buddhism has become an international religion for a long time and developed powerfully in Europe and America. The most important thing is the western countries are believing in Buddhism and using English as a tool to communicate. One original method used in the book is interactive communication method. With this method learners can perfect four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) directly with their teachers or they can study easily by themselves. The book specializing in English for Buddhism help the learners not only develop technical words and abilities to communicate with Buddhists, but also communicate in daily life. The book introduce the principles of Buddhism, the Buddha's teachings and mindfulness practices.

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