Postcolonial Vietnam - New Histories of the National Past

"This wonderful and truly outstanding book presents little-known archival material in a most compelling fashion. Patricia M. Pelley has written an elegant and lucid book that will generate much scholarly discussion in the years to come, and in a number of disciplines. It will become mandatory reading for all those interested in Vietnam and Southeast Asian history. "--Panivong Norindr, author of "Phantasmatic Indochina: French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film and Literature"

Sommario

Acknowledgments
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A Note on Diacritics
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Introduction: Postcolonial Visions
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1. Constructing History
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2. The Land of the Viet and Viet Nam

3. Chronotypes, Commemoration: A New Sense of Time
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Epilogue
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List of Abbreviations
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Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Patricia M. Pelley is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University.

Riassunto

Explores the relation between the pre-colonial and colonial past to the postcolonial present in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Patricia M. Pelley, Pelley, Patricia M Pelley, Patricia M. Pelley
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.11.2002
• EAN: 9780822329848
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2984-8
• Pagine: 344
• Peso: 771 g
• Serie: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Südostasien, History - General History, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia