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| Publisher | Southeast Asia Program Publications |
| ISBN 13 | 9781501745133 |
| ISBN 10 | 1501745131 |
| Author | Tuong Vu |
| Language | English |
| Book Subtitle | Vietnamese Perspectives On Nation Building |
| Editor | Sean Fear |
| Book Description | Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, the republic of vietnam, 1955-1975, presents us with an interpretation of "south vietnam" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the united states government. The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and edited here by tuong vu and sean fear describe the experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from many walks of life during the fraught years of vietnam's second republic, leading up to and encompassing what americans generally call the "vietnam war." the voices gift the reader a sense of the authors' experiences in the republic and their ideas about the nation during that time. The light and careful editing hand of vu and fear reveals that far from a cold war proxy struggle, the conflict in vietnam featured a true ideological divide between the communist north and the non-communist south |
| Editorial Review | This valuable collection includes perspectives that have been consistently overlooked in the historiography of the War. Readers are afforded not only South Vietnamese perspectives, but also those of civil servants, soldiers, police officers, educators, writers, artists, and journalists. This is also one of the few works in which South Vietnamese women's voices are heard." -- Van Nguyen-Marshall, Trent University |
| About the Author | Tuong vu is director asian studies and associate professor of political science at the university of oregon. He is a former editor of journal of vietnamese studies and the author of numerous books, including, vietnam's communist revolution and paths to development in asia. Sean fear is a lecturer in international history at the university of leeds |
| Publication Date | 15 January 2020 |
| Number of Pages | 210 |
The Republic Of Vietnam, 1955-1975 : Vietnamese Perspectives On Nation Building paperback english - 15 January 2020
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