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Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam

By: Vu Le Thao Chi

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Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam

By: Vu Le Thao Chi

Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy. Vietnamese famers are neither simply obedient beneficiaries of policy decisions made by higher authorities nor convention-ridden cyphers. Rather, they are sophisticated decision-makers capable of navigating the changes threatening to disrupt their lives over multiple generations. Vu’s research pays particular attention to those farmers whose families have suffered from direct and indirect exposure to the toxic herbicides popularly known as Agent Orange. She demonstrates that their priority has tended to be the protection of their existing assets, rather than pursuing the promise of new riches, and that this tendency has helped them maintain stability in a turbulent economic environment. A fascinating study for scholars of Vietnamese anthropology and society, the book will also be of interest to sociologists and economists with a broader interest in the impact of economic and political change on rural lifestyles.

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Routledge

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1000045013

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Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam

By: Vu Le Thao Chi

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Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai

By: Bang Vu

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Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai

By: Bang Vu

Muoi hai" in this book title means twelve months in a year which according to the author, "each month has its own plaintive beauty, personal nostalgia ...". Vu Bang conveys his sweet memory about Hanoi by the beauty of culture, lifestyle, food art etc. and especially the deep love of his wife apart.

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MintRight Inc

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6042028146

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9786042028141

Lục Xì

Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi

By: Vu Trong Phung

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Lục Xì

Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi

By: Vu Trong Phung

What does it mean when a city of 180,000 people has more than 5,000 women working as prostitutes? This question frames Vu Trong Phung’s 1937 classic reportage Luc Xi. In the late 1930s, Hanoi had a burgeoning commercial sex industry that involved thousands of people and hundreds of businesses. It was the center of the city’s nightlife and the source of suffering, violence, exploitation, and a venereal disease epidemic. For Phung, a popular writer and intellectual, it also raised disturbing questions about the state of Vietnamese society and culture and whether his country really was "progressing" under French colonial rule. Translator Shaun Kingsley Malarney’s thoughtful and multifaceted introduction provides historical background on colonialism, prostitution, and venereal disease in Vietnam and discusses reportage as a literary genre, political tool, and historical source. A fully annotated translation of Luc Xi follows, in which Phung takes readers into the heart of colonial Hanoi’s sex industry, portraying its female workers, the officials who attempted to regulate it, the doctors who treated its victims, and the secretive medical facility known as the Nha Luc Xi ("The Dispensary"), which examined prostitutes for venereal diseases and held them for treatment. Drawing from his interviews with doctors, officials, and prostitutes and the writings of French doctors on prostitution and venereal disease, Phung provides a rare, firsthand look at the damage caused by the commercial sex industry. His sympathetic portrayal of the Vietnamese underclass is considered one of the most accurate, but he also provides one of the most acerbic, humorous, and critical views of the changes wrought by colonialism in Southeast Asia.

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193

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824860616

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9780824860615

Public Diplomacy in Vietnam

National Interests and Identities in the Public Sphere

By: Vu Lam

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Public Diplomacy in Vietnam

National Interests and Identities in the Public Sphere

By: Vu Lam

This book explores how Vietnam's leadership conceptualises and conducts public diplomacy (PD) and offers a comparative analysis with regional powers. Drawing on social constructivism as its theoretical framework it investigates the rationale behind an authoritarian regime's implementation of public diplomacy to contribute to a better understanding of the broader framework of foreign-domestic policy. This theoretical and practical exploration of Vietnam's PD in cases of cultural diplomacy, South China Sea diplomacy and online activism situates it in the general academic and theoretical discussion on soft power. Key variables to the conceptualisation and conduct of Vietnam's PD, namely national interest, national identity and changing information technologies, especially the Internet and social media, are also thoroughly investigated. With crosscutting themes ranging from politics and international relations to communication studies, it will appeal to students and scholars of identity politics, populism and nationalism.

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171

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Taylor & Francis

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1000631605

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9781000631609

Vietnam's Communist Revolution

The Power and Limits of Ideology

By: Tuong Vu

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Vietnam's Communist Revolution

The Power and Limits of Ideology

By: Tuong Vu

By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy. Unearthing new material from Vietnamese archives and publications, this book challenges the conventional scholarship and the popular image of the Vietnamese revolution and the Vietnam War as being driven solely by patriotic inspirations. The revolution not only saw successes in defeating foreign intervention, but also failures in bringing peace and development to Vietnam. This was, and is, the real tragedy of Vietnam. Spanning the entire history of the Vietnamese revolution and its aftermath, this book examines its leaders' early rise to power, the tumult of three decades of war with France, the US, and China, and the stubborn legacies left behind which remain in Vietnam today.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316875954

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9781316875957

Farm-to-Freedom

Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens

By: Roy Vu

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Farm-to-Freedom

Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens

By: Roy Vu

Home gardens, in addition to providing sustenance and satisfaction, embody a sense of self identity. In this groundbreaking work on Vietnamese foodways, Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens brings to light how the Vietnamese diasporic population in Texas uses gardens literally and figuratively to set down roots in a new country. These gardens, often hidden in plain sight, establish the seat of Vietnamese immigrant culture, according to author Roy Vũ. They can also offer Vietnamese Americans an empowering pathway to forging a new homeland duality by retaining ties to the foods and environs they drew comfort from in Vietnam. Farm-to-Freedom uses the concept of emancipatory foodways as a lens into gardens that serve a semi-palliative purpose by succoring the experienced tragedies of war and exile for Vietnamese immigrants and Vietnamese Americans, which arguably adds another dimension to the importance of the home garden. Vũ covers topics including but not limited to culinary citizenship, food democracy, culinary justice, and food sovereignty. Farm-to-Freedom reveals how these gardens not only provide those who tend them a greater sense of security and agency in an unfamiliar land but also give them the means to preserve and expand Vietnamese cuisine for themselves while simultaneously enriching food culture in the United States. With a wealth of original oral histories, community-based recipes and poetry, and photographs of home gardens in suburban and urban settings, Farm-to-Freedom provides a deeper understanding of the Vietnamese diaspora in Texas for scholars, professionals, and general readers alike.

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361

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Texas A&M University Press

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1648431860

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9781648431869

Higher Education in Vietnam

Flexibility, Mobility and Practicality in the Global Knowledge Economy

By: L. Tran,S. Marginson,H. Do,T. Le,Nhai Nguyen,T. Vu,Thach Pham

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Higher Education in Vietnam

Flexibility, Mobility and Practicality in the Global Knowledge Economy

By: L. Tran,S. Marginson,H. Do,T. Le,Nhai Nguyen,T. Vu,Thach Pham

Higher and tertiary education are crucial to modern nations. Vietnam has great potential, but its universities and colleges are poor-performing, under-funded and slow to change compared to those in neighbouring East Asian nations. This book analyses the problem and provides constructive solutions for the reform of higher education.

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324

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Springer

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1137436484

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9781137436481

Book's by Vu Le Thao Chi

Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam

Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam

Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam

Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam

Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai

Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai

Lục Xì

Lục Xì

Public Diplomacy in Vietnam

Public Diplomacy in Vietnam

Vietnam's Communist Revolution

Vietnam's Communist Revolution

Farm-to-Freedom

Farm-to-Freedom

Higher Education in Vietnam

Higher Education in Vietnam

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