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Viet Nam - A History from Earliest Times to the Present (Hardcover)
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Viet Nam - A History from Earliest Times to the Present (Hardcover)
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This book narrates the history of the different peoples who have
lived in the three major regions of Viet Nam over the past 3,000
years. It brings to life their relationships with these regions'
landscapes, water resources, and climatic conditions, their
changing cultures and religious traditions, and their interactions
with their neighbors in China and Southeast Asia. Key themes
include the dramatic impact of changing weather patterns from
ancient to medieval and modern times, the central importance of
riverine and maritime communications, ecological and economic
transformations, and linguistic and literary changes. The country's
long experience of regional diversity, multi-ethnic populations,
and a multi-religious heritage that ranges from local spirit cults
to the influences of Buddhism, Confucianism and Catholicism, makes
for a vividly pluralistic narrative. The arcs of Vietnamese history
include the rise and fall of different political formations, from
chiefdoms to Chinese provinces, from independent kingdoms to
divided regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics.
In the twentieth century anticolonial nationalism, the worldwide
depression, Japanese occupation, a French attempt at reconquest,
the traumatic American-Vietnamese war, and the 1975 communist
victory all set the scene for the making of contemporary Viet Nam.
Rapid economic growth in recent decades has transformed this
one-party state into a global trading nation. Yet its rich history
still casts a long shadow. Along with other members of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Viet Nam is now involved in
a tense territorial standoff in the South China Sea, as a rival of
China and a "partner" of the United States. If its independence and
future geographical unity seem assured, Viet Nam's regional
security and prospects for democracy remain clouded.
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