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Vietnam and the West : new approaches /

Early studies of Vietnam's relationship with the West tended to focus on the country's political and military responses to the aggressions of foreign powers, such as those marking the French colonial period (1862-1954) and the U.S.-Vietnam war. The nine essays in this volume take a differe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gadkar-Wilcox, Wynn, 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2010.
Colección:Studies on Southeast Asia ; no. 52.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Co-Figuration of Vietnam and the West; Precolonial Encounters (to 1862); The Rise of Christian Nôm Literature in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Fusing European Content and Local Expression; Jean Marie Despiau: Unjustly Maligned Physician in the Medical Service of the Nguyê~n; Đặng Đức Tuấn and the Complexities of Nineteenth-Century Vietnamese Christian Identity; French and American Encounters (1862-1975); More than Half the Sky: Vietnamese Women and Anti-French Political Activism, 1858-1945
  • Persuading the Enemy: Vietnamese Appeals to Non-White Forces of Occupation, 1945-1975The Paradox of Western-Style Trade Unionism in South Vietnam; The Search for a Third Force in Vietnam: From The Quiet American to the Paris Peace Agreement; Recent Encounters (1975-Present); Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the United States: Blurring the Boundaries; Strategic Waters, Tragic Waters: Water Privatization in Vietnam; Notes on Contributors