The Country of Memory

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Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam

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Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes

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The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. "The Country of Memory" fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory and commemoration of the Vietnam War in modern day Vietnam. This pathbreaking volume details the nuances, sources and contradictions in both official and private memory of the War, providing a provocative assessment of social and cultural change in Vietnam since the 1980s. Inspired by the experiences of Vietnamese veterans, artists, authorities and ordinary peasants, these essays examine a society undergoing a rapid and traumatic shift in politics and economic structure. Each chapter considers specific aspects of Vietnamese culture and society, such as art history, commemorative rituals and literature, gender and tourism. The contributors call attention to not only the social milieu in which the work of memory takes place, but also the historical context in which different representations of the past are constructed. Drawing from a variety of sources, such as prison memoirs, commemorative

Author Biography:

Hue-Tam Ho Tai is the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University. She is the author of Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (1983) and Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (1992). John Bodnar is Chancellors' Professor of History at Indiana University and author of Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century.

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October 1st, 2001

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Professional & Vocational

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Edited by Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Foreword by John Bodnar

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23 b-w photographs

Pages

284

Series

Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780520222670

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3889088

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