Author: Lou DematteisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A Portrait of Viet Nam
Author: Lou DematteisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Vietnam
Author: David ChanoffPublisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is the view from the other side - the murderous trek down the Ho Chi Minh trail and life under American bombing.
Understanding Vietnam
Author: Neil L. JamiesonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520916581
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the Vietnamese clung to and fought over their own competing visions of what Vietnam was and what it might become. To understand the war, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture, and their ways of looking at the world. Neil L. Jamieson, after many years of living and working in Vietnam, has written the book that provides this understanding. Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century Vietnam. Against the background of traditional Vietnamese culture, he takes us through the saga of modern Vietnamese history and Western involvement in the country, from the coming of the French in 1858 through the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout his analysis, he allows the Vietnamese—both our friends and foes, and those who wished to be neither—to speak for themselves through poetry, fiction, essays, newspaper editorials and reports of interviews and personal experiences. By putting our old and partial perceptions into this new and broader context, Jamieson provides positive insights that may perhaps ease the lingering pain and doubt resulting from our involvement in Vietnam. As the United States and Vietnam appear poised to embark on a new phase in their relationship, Jamieson's book is particularly timely.
A Portrait of Viet Nam
Author: Lou DematteisPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393314298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A photographic survey of contemporary Vietnam focuses on the lives of ordinary people, documenting a vibrant, constantly changing country
Early Photography in Vietnam
Author: Terry BennettPublisher:
ISBN: 9781912961047
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Early Photography in Vietnam is a fascinating and outstanding pictorial record of photography in Vietnam during the century of French rule. In more than 500 photographs, many published here for the first time, the volume records Vietnam's capture and occupation by the French, the wide-ranging ethnicities and cultures of Vietnam, the country's fierce resistance to foreign rule, leading to the reassertion of its own identity and subsequent independence. This benchmark volume also includes a chronology of photography (1845-1954), an index of more than 240 photographers and studios in the same period, appendixes focusing on postcards, royal photographic portraits, Cartes de Visite and Cabinet Cards, as well as a select bibliography and list of illustrations.
Chasing the Tigers
Author: Murray HiebertPublisher: Kodansha
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Especially in light industry and agriculture, but also highlights its weaknesses, including a shortage of well-trained managers, inadequate infrastructure, and legal obstacles to foreign investment. He also traces the recent historical background that has led Vietnam to where it is today. Most importantly, Chasing the Tigers discusses Vietnam's current trend toward doi moi (an open economy and society). Hiebert examines the impact of economic liberalization on Vietnamese.
Passage to Vietnam
Author: Rick SmolanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photojournalism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
CD includes interactive passages, 400 photos, 60 min. video, interactive photo-editing sessions, interactive virtual galleries.
Children of the Dragon
Author: Garland, SherryPublisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781455617098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Vietnamese folk tales retold for a modern audience. In poetry and literature the Vietnamese call themselves the "children of the dragon." Their oral tradition is a strong one and this volume includes three of the familiar teaching tales told by the elders. Readers will learn how the tiger got his stripes, why there are monsoons, and the story of the Moon Festival.
The Girl in the Picture
Author: Denise ChongPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 144068412X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"More than any other Vietnam book in recent years, The Girl in the Picture confronts us with the ceaseless, ever-compounding casualties of modern warfare." —The San Francisco Chronicle On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War. This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and the story of what happened to that girl after the camera shutter closed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chong's portrait of Kim Phuc-who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCO spokesperson-is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese point-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday life in the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on all its participants.
Author: Jacques Bekaert