Post Đổi MớI

Post Đổi MớI

Author: Singapore Art Museum

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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Catalogue of an exhibition with the same title, held at the Singapore Art Museum, to celebrate the 35 years of diplomatic ties between Singapore and Vietnam. The exhibition constituted a part of the Vietnam Festival, an integrated programme of the National Heritage Board.


Gender, Household, State

Gender, Household, State

Author: Jayne Werner

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1501719459

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A collection of essays addressing the state of women's lives in Viet Nam during doi moi, the period of economic market reforms that characterized the nation in the 1990s. These fascinating and varied essays illuminate women's daily lives as they are shaped by culture, economics, and traditional ideals.


Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam

Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam

Author: Vu Le Thao Chi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1000045013

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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.


Modernity and Re-enchantment

Modernity and Re-enchantment

Author: Philip Taylor

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9780739127391

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Representative of a new wave of anthropological research on religion in Vietnam, Modernity and Re-enchantment brings together in a single book the latest and best research available on this topic. Its lively and original descriptions deftly evoke the burgeoning field of religiosity in contemporary Vietnam. With case studies into a great variety of religious practices, it covers more ground than the small handful of single-authored books currently available on religion in Vietnam.


Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam

Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam

Author: Magali Barbieri

Publisher:

Published: 2009-03-18

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past – the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "renovation". Two decades have passed since the wide-ranging institutional transformations that took place reconfigured the ways families produce and reproduce. The downsizing of the socialist welfare system and the return of the household as the unit of production and consumption redefined the boundaries between the public and private. This volume is the first to offer a multidisciplinary perspective that sets its gaze exclusively on processes at work in the everyday lives of families, and on the implications for gender and intergenerational relations. By focusing on families, this book shifts the spotlight from macro transformations of the renovation era, orchestrated by those in power, to micro-level transformations, experienced daily in households between husbands and wives, parents and children, grandparents and other family members.


Possessed by the Spirits

Possessed by the Spirits

Author: Karen Fjelstad

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1501719149

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The essays in this volume examine the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic "Renovation" period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions and interactions.


Nothing Is Impossible

Nothing Is Impossible

Author: Ted Osius

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 197882517X

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Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives. Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation’s extraordinary renaissance. With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.