Vietnam and the West / Wynn Wilcox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program.

Gadkar-Wilcox, Wynn, 1974- editor.

Series:

Studies on Southeast Asia ; Number 52.

Studies on Southeast Asia ; no. 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam--History--Congresses.

Vietnam.

Western countries--Relations--Vietnam--Congresses.

Western countries.

Vietnam--Relations--Western countries--Congresses.

Vietnam--Civilization--Western influences--Congresses.

Military History.

Local Subjects:

Military History.

Vietnam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Early studies of Vietnam's relationship with the West tended to focus on the country's political and military responses to the aggressions of foreign powers, such as those marking the French colonial period (1862-1954) and the U.S.-Vietnam war. The nine essays in this volume take a different approach. Rather than assuming a clash between Vietnamese and Western civilizations, they examine the ways in which the Vietnamese have reformulated conceptions of the West within their own cultural context. In essays examining Catholicism, medicine, literature, gender relations, labor unions, the "third force," Agent Orange, and contemporary water rights, the contributors show how the Vietnamese have adapted and integrated Western ideas from the sixteenth century onward.Drawing on in-depth fieldwork and archival research in Vietnam, France, and the United Atates, the essays in this volume explore interactions between Vietnam and the West that have spanned many generations and shaped Vietnamese responses to the wars of the twentieth century. This volume illuminates the complex historical background of the region's colonial and postcolonial conflicts by avoiding Eurocentric assumptions about the "Vietnamese response" or "Vietnamese modernization," while retaining a concern for the centrality of indigenous identities and culture. Vietnam and the West revises our understanding of the reasons for the tragic conflicts in twentieth-century Vietnam.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: THE CO-FIGURATION OF VIETNAM AND THE WEST / Wilcox, Wynn

PART I.PRECOLONIAL ENCOUNTERS (TO 1862)

THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN NOM LITERATURE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY VIETNAM: FUSING EUROPEAN CONTENT AND LOCAL EXPRESSION / Ostrowski, Brian

JEAN MARIE DESPIAU: UNJUSTLY MALIGNED PHYSICIAN IN THE MEDICAL SERVICE OF THE NGUYEN / Thompson, C.Michele

DANG DUC TUAN AND THE COMPLEXITIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY VIETNAMESE CHRISTIAN IDENTITY / Wilcox, Wynn

PART II.FRENCH AND AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS (1862-1975)

MORE THAN HALF THE SKY: VIETNAMESE WOMEN AND ANTI-FRENCH POLITICAL ACTIVISM, 1858-1945 / Lessard, Micheline

PERSUADING THE ENEMY: VIETNAMESE APPEALS TO NON- WHITE FORCES OF OCCUPATION, 1945-1975 / Gilbert, Marc Jason

THE PARADOX OF WESTERN-STYLE TRADE UNIONISM IN SOUTH VIETNAM / Wehrle, Edmund F.

THE SEARCH FOR A THIRD FORCE IN VIETNAM: FROM THE QUIET AMERICAN TO THE PARIS PEACE AGREEMENT / Quinn-Judge, Sophie

PART III.RECENT ENCOUNTERS (1975-PRESENT)

AGENT ORANGE, VIETNAM, AND THE UNITED STATES: BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES / Fox, Diane Niblack

STRATEGIC WATERS, TRAGIC WATERS: WATER PRIVATIZATION IN VIETNAM / Kukk, Christopher L.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

"This volume grew out of a conference with the same title that was held at Western Connecticut State University on December 4-5, 2005"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1164-4

OCLC:

1080551108