Country of Memory - Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Foreword
John Bodnar
Introduction: Situating Memory
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Part One: Constructing Memory
1. Reading Revolutionary Prison Memoirs
Peter Zinoman
2. "The Motherland Remembers Your Sacrifice": Commemorating War Dead in Northern Vietnam
Shaun Kingsley Malarney
3. Museum-Shrine: Revolution and Its Tutelary Spirit in the Village of My Hoa Hung
Christoph Giebel
Part Two: Repackaging the Past
4. Framing the National Spirit: Viewing and Reviewing Painting under the Revolution
Nora A. Taylor
5. The Past Without the Pain: The Manufacture of Nostalgia in Vietnam's Tourism Industry
Laurel B. Kennedy & Mary Rose Williams
Part Three: Gendered Memory
6. Faces of Remembrance and Forgetting
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
7. Contests of Memory: Remembering
and Forgetting War in the Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema
Mark Philip Bradley
Afterword: Commemoration and Community
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Glossary
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

About the author

Hue-Tam Ho Tai is the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University. She is the author of Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (1983) and Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (1992). John Bodnar is Chancellors' Professor of History at Indiana University and author of Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century.

Summary

The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. This title fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, and commemoration of the Vietnam War in Vietnam.

Product details

• Authors: John Bodnar, Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Tai/Bodnar
• Assisted by: John Bodnar (Editor), Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Editor), John Bodnar (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2001
• EAN: 9780520222670
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22267-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global T; Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vietnam, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Vietnam War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General