Censorship in Vietnam : brave new world / Thomas A. Bass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bass, Thomas A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bass, Thomas A--Travel--Vietnam.

Bass, Thomas A.

Censorship--Vietnam.

Censorship.

Freedom of the press--Vietnam.

Freedom of the press.

Freedom of speech--Vietnam.

Freedom of speech.

Travel.

Vietnam.

Physical Description:

ix, 228 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]

Summary:

What does censorship do to a culture? How do censors justify their work? What are the mechanisms by which censorship-and self-censorship-after people's sense of time and memory, truth and reality? Thomas Bass faced these questions when The Spy Who Loved Us, his account of the famous Time magazine journalist and double agent Pham Xuan An, was published in a Vietnamese edition. When the book finally appeared, after five years of negotiations with Vietnamese censors, more than four hundred passages had been altered or cut from the text. Bass then flew to Vietnam to meet his censors, at least the half dozen who would speak with him. In Censorship in Vietnam, he describes these meetings and examines how censorship works, both in Vietnam and elsewhere in the world. An exemplary piece of investigative reporting, Censorship in Vietnam opens a window into Vietnam today and shows us the precarious nature of intellectual freedom in a world governed by suppression. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter I Culture Ground Zero 1

Chapter II Chaos 4

Chapter III Swamp of the Assassins 7

Chapter IV Wandering Souls 50

Chapter V Stabbing People in the Back with My Pen 88

Chapter VI Vietnam: Brave New World 104

Chapter VII Shiva the Destroyer 141

Chapter VIII Boiled-Steamed-Raw 169

Chapter IX Information 198.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781625342959

1625342950

9781625342942

1625342942

OCLC:

1006392816