The Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975 : Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building / Tuong Vu, Sean Fear.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fear, Sean, Editor.

Vu, Tuong, Editor.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Vietnamese

Subjects (All):

Military History.

Vietnam War, nation-building, postcolonialism, politics, diplomacy.

Vietnam.

Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government.

Vietnam (Republic).

Vietnam (Republic)--Civilization.

Local Subjects:

Military History.

Vietnam War, nation-building, postcolonialism, politics, diplomacy.

Vietnam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975, presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government.The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and edited here by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear describe the experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam's Second Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally call the "Vietnam War." The voices gift the reader a sense of the authors' experiences in the Republic and their ideas about the nation during that time. The light and careful editing hand of Vu and Fear reveals that far from a Cold War proxy struggle, the conflict in Vietnam featured a true ideological divide between the communist North and the non-communist South.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One. Coping with Changes and War, Building a Foundation for Growth

Chapter Two. The Birth of Central Banking, 1955-1956

Chapter Three. Reform or Collapse: Economic Challenges during Vietnamization

Chapter Four. Land Reform and Agricultural Development, 1968-1975

Chapter Five. Striving for a Lasting Peace: The Paris Accords and Aftermath

Chapter Six. Public Security and the National Police

Chapter Seven. Reflections of a Frontline Soldier

Chapter Eight. The Philosophies and Development of a Free Education

Chapter Nine. Personal Reflections on the Educational System

Chapter Ten. Life and Work of a Journalist

Chapter Eleven. The Vietnam War in the Eyes of a Vietnamese War Correspondent

Chapter Twelve. Sóng Thần's Campaign for Press Freedom

Chapter Thirteen. Writers of the Republic of Vietnam

Chapter Fourteen. The Cinema Industry

Chapter Fifteen. The Neglect of the Republic of Vietnam in the American Historical Memory

Chapter Sixteen. Political, Military, and Cultural Memoirs in Vietnamese

About the Editors

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781501745126

1501745123

9781501745157

1501745158

OCLC:

1090707513