54 Culture and Politics in Vietnam. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
54 Culture and Politics in Vietnam. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Hess, Martha. Then the Americans Came : Voices from Vietnam.
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993; New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Hickey, Gerald C. Shattered World : Adaptation and Survival
among Vietnam's Highland Peoples During the Vietnam War.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
*CORE* This work, by a pre-eminent anthropologist
who is extensively published in this area, deals with the
profound effects of the Indochina wars on the highland ethnic groups (also
known as Montagnards) in terms of displacement, survival and the
effects on their culture. It provides a unique insight into an
area usually ignored or lightly covered in other sources.
Huynh Kim Khanh. Vietnamese Communism : 1925-1945. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1982.
*CORE* The definitive study of the implanting and
evolution of a European anti-capitalist ideology on a Vietnamese
socio-political conflict of anti-colonial nationalism and anti-feudal
peasant movements within the context of the debate about
modernization. The work traces the formation of the ICP, the
ultra-nationalist, non social reform era of the 20s, the anti-nationalist
international era in the 30s, to a balance emerging at the end of WWII
and Ho Chi Minh's role in this process. Also discussed are the
Trotskyite and Stalinist elements during the thirties.
Jamieson, Neil L. Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993.
*CORE* An important study which tries to place
the Indochina Wars within the context of the century long internal
debate in Vietnamese society concerning the means and direction
of modernization in the wake of the French conquest. Using a variety of
Vietnamese cultural and political sourses, Jamieson seeks to place
these events in the framework of the struggle to define Vietnamese
tradition and society within the context of the need to evolve the
culture in reponse to the modern world, a topic which still lies
at the heart of much of today's Vietnamese politics.
Marr, David G. Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
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