Vietnam: Rising Dragon

Vietnam: Rising Dragon

by Bill Hayton
Vietnam: Rising Dragon

Vietnam: Rising Dragon

by Bill Hayton

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Overview

The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society, booming cities swallowing up smaller villages, and the lure of modern living tugging at the traditional networks of family and community. Yet beneath these sweeping developments lurks an authoritarian political system that complicates the nation’s apparent renaissance. In this engaging work, experienced journalist Bill Hayton looks at the costs of change in Vietnam and questions whether this rising Asian power is really heading toward capitalism and democracy.
Based on vivid eyewitness accounts and pertinent case studies, Hayton’s book addresses a broad variety of issues in today’s Vietnam, including important shifts in international relations, the growth of civil society, economic developments and challenges, and the nation’s nascent democracy movement as well as its notorious internal security. His analysis of Vietnam’s “police state,” and its systematic mechanisms of social control, coercion, and surveillance, is fresh and particularly imperative when viewed alongside his portraits of urban and street life, cultural legacies, religion, the media, and the arts. With a firm sense of historical and cultural context, Hayton examines how these issues have emerged and where they will lead Vietnam in the next stage of its development.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300175400
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 04/06/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Bill Hayton is a reporter and producer with BBC News who covered Vietnam as the BBC’s correspondent during 2006–7. While there, he also wrote for the Times, the Financial Times, and the Bangkok Post.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations and maps viii

Acknowledgements x

Introduction: Another Vietnam xii

1 The communist capitalist playground 1

2 Selling the fields 26

3 Living on the streets 46

4 Grandfather is watching you 68

5 'Greet the Party, Greet Spring!' 91

6 The rise and fall of Bloc 8406 113

7 A sharp knife, but not too sharp 135

8 See it before it's gone 159

9 Enemies into friends 181

10 Schisms and divisions 203

11 Root and branch 226

Epilogue 254

Notes 257

Suggestions for further reading 266

Index 269

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