Format:
vi, 198 Seiten
,
27 cm
ISBN:
9781501745133
,
1501745131
,
9781501745126
,
1501745123
Content:
Coping with changes and war, building foundation for growth -- The birth of central banking, 1955-1956 -- Reform or collapse : economic challenges during Vietnamization -- Land reform and agricultural development, 1968-1975 -- Striving for a lasting peace : the Paris Accords and aftermath -- Public security and the national police -- Reflections of a frontline soldier -- The philosophies and development of a free education -- Personal reflections on the educational system -- Life and work of a journalist -- The Vietnam War in the eyes of a Vietnamese war correspondent -- Song Than's campaign for press freedom -- Writers of the Republic of Vietnam -- The cinema industry -- The neglect of the Republic of Vietnam in the American historical memory -- Political, military, and cultural memoirs in Vietnamese.
Content:
Presents a collection of translated first-hand accounts of South Vietnamese military and civilian officials and prominent civilians who helped build the Republic of Vietnam. 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
Note:
Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501745140
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501745157
Language:
English
Keywords:
Südvietnam
;
Nationenbildung
;
Geschichte 1955-1975
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Erlebnisbericht
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