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The
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam is a comprehensive resource exploring social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of Vietnam, one of contemporary Asia's most dynamic but least understood countries.
List of contents
1 How to Study Contemporary Vietnam? 2 The Communist Party of Vietnam: Consolidating Market-Leninism 3 Political Representation in Contemporary Vietnam 4 Public Political Criticism in Vietnam, 1990s-2018 5 Civil Society and Advocacy Networks in Vietnam 6 The Role of the Military and Public Security in Contemporary Vietnam 7 Human Rights in Contemporary Vietnam 8 Vietnam's Foreign Policy: Structure, Evolution, and Contemporary Challenges 9 Vietnam's Extraordinary Economic Journey from Poverty to Prosperity 10 Vietnam's Foreign Direct Investment and Export Performance 11 Contemporary Vietnam: State Effectiveness Under Conditions of Commercialization 12 The Political Economy of Private-Sector Development in Vietnam Since
Doi Moi 13 Decentralization and Economic Development in Vietnam 14 Contradictions of Multistakeholder Labor Relations in Vietnam 15 Land in Contemporary Vietnam 16 Market Personhood in Urban Southern Vietnam 17 Contemporary Vietnam's Economy in Historical Perspective: ¿¿i M¿i or ¿¿i L¿i? 18 Welfare, Inequality, and Opportunity in Contemporary Vietnam 19 Education and Development in Vietnam: A Glass Half Full? 20 Contemporary Vietnam's Health Status and Health System 21 Post-Colonial Urbanization in Vietnam: Urban Order and Unruliness 22 Sociocultural Life and Social Relations in Rural Vietnam's Lowlands 23 The Cosmopolitan Delta: Ethnic Pluralism at the Mouth of the Mekong 24 Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam: State Relations and Social Change 25 Environment and Society in Contemporary Vietnam: Development, Crisis, and Responses 26 The Family in Contemporary Viet Nam 27 Feminism in Vietnam: Women's Studies, Gender Research, and Intersections 28 Masculinity and Violence in Vietnam 29 Marriage, Family and Kinship in Vietnam: Shadows and Silences 30 The Affairs of Men: Masculinity in Contemporary Vietnam 31 LGBTQ in Vietnam: Heteronormativity and Resistance 32 Contemporary Vietnamese Cuisine 33 Driving
Doi Moi: Motorbikes, Cars, and Capitalism in Vietnam's Socialist Market Economy 34 Religion in Contemporary Vietnam 35 Movements of Independent Art in Contemporary Vietnam 36 Revolutionary Journalism in Contemporary Vietnam 37 Popular Television: Socialist Politics and Market Competition 38 Remembrance, Commemoration, and Revolutionary Apparitions: Ritualizing Connections with the Past and the Future in Vietnam
About the author
Jonathan D. London is an associate professor of political economy at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His recent publications include
Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia (2018),
Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (2014), and
Education in Vietnam (2011).
