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Vietnam History - Stories Retold For A New Generation (Paperback)
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Vietnam History - Stories Retold For A New Generation (Paperback)
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Total price: R630
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For English readers wishing to learn more about Vietnamese history
and culture, the choices are abundant. However, while countless
memoirs have been written by American combatants or civil
participants about their unique experiences during the Vietnam War,
an informative, enjoyable English text about the History of Vietnam
is still a rare encounter. Able to peruse French, English, and
Vietnamese writings, the authors have committed themselves to
produce a book with abundant illustrations that addresses select
aspects of Vietnamese history and culture for the new generations.
There is no intent to refight old battles or to appeal to cultural
pride, just eye-opening, entertaining pieces of knowledge about a
country that deeply impacted America. Each of the authors may have
shown a certain professional bias. The surgeon (Dang) uses a more
dissecting and analytical approach in his treatment of complex
topics (e.g. reviewing the whole Vietnam history in the first
chapter) or national heroes (e.g. General Tran Hung Dao, who
vanquished the Mongols). On the other hand, the pediatrician (Ho)
tends to choose younger, lesser heroes (e.g. Lady Trieu instead of
the famous Trung Sisters), notable either for their precocity (e.g.
Ky Dong who became Gauguin's friend) or their exceptional position
at a turning point of history (e.g. Little Prince Canh who met
Thomas Jefferson and Queen Marie Antoinette in Paris at a period
when revolutions occurred in the US, France and Vietnam). A few
chapters use original sources: old French documents pertaining to
the conditions of Vietnam in the 17th century when the country was
first exposed to the West and particularly to the Christian
religion, and in the second half of the 19th century when Vietnam
was falling prey to French colonialism. The book concludes with an
assessment of the recent adaptation of the Vietnamese diaspora to
its new life in America.
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