Searching For Vietnam: Selected Writings On Vietnamese Culture And Society

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

DS556

1-920901-05-1

Searching for Vietnam; selected writings on Vietnamese culture and society.

Rambo, A. Terry. (Kyoto area studies on Asia; v.9)

Kyoto University Press, [c]2005

456 p.

$79.95

Rambo (Khon Kaen U., Thailand) has been involved with Vietnam research for some four decades. Here he collects 18 of his previously published essays as an overview of his work over the years. Essays on Vietnamese culture address questions of religious society and symbols of Vietnamese cultural identity. Studies of village life examine comparative peasant system and consider prospects for sustainable development. The impact of war on South Vietnamese Society and Vietnam's development prospects in the reform period are discussed in eight selections. Finally, questions of development in the mountain regions of Vietnam are explored in the last four papers. Distributed in the US by ISBS.