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Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary VietnamChronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnams recent past - the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "renovation". Two decades have passed since the wide-ranging institutional transformations that took place reconfigured the ways families produce and reproduce. The downsizing of the socialist welfare system and the return of the household as the unit of production and consumption redefined the boundaries between the public and private. This volume is the first to offer a multidisciplinary perspective that sets its gaze exclusively on processes at work in the everyday lives of families, and on the implications for gender and intergenerational relations.By focusing on families, this book shifts the spotlight from macro transformations of the renovation era, orchestrated by those in power, to micro-level transformations, experienced daily in households between husbands and wives, parents and children, grandparents and other family members. |
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Vietnam Today
Vietnam: A Natural History
A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the worlds biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an unusual mixture of tropical and temperate species. This book is the first comprehensive account of Vietnams natural history in English. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and thirty-five original watercolour illustrations, the book offers a complete tour of the countrys plants and animals along with a full discussion of the factors shaping their evolution and distribution. Separate chapters focus on northern, central, and southern Vietnam, regions that encompass tropics, subtropics, mountains, lowlands, wetland and river regions, delta and coastal areas, and offshore islands. The authors provide detailed descriptions of key natural areas to visit, where a traveller might explore limestone caves or glimpse some of the countrys twenty-seven monkeys and ape species and more than 850 bird species. The book also explores the long history of humans in the country, including the impact of the Vietnam-American War on plants and animals, and describes current efforts to conserve Vietnams complex, fragile, and widely threatened biodiversity.
£23.75 - Hardcover, 448 pages (June 2005)
Agent Orange: "Collateral Damage" in Vietnam Philip Jones Griffiths
In "Agent Orange" Philip Jones Griffiths has photographed the children and grandchildren of the farmers whose faces were lifted to the gentle rain of the contaminated herbicide during the Vietnam War. The USA government refuses to contribute any meaningful economic assistance. Griffiths photographs and words shows the cold truth of twisted limbs, hare lips, and hydrocehpalic fetuses preserved in formaldehyde.
£24.95 - Hardcover 160 pages (November 2003)
Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns David Lamb - Paperback Version
Lamb is a journalist who covered the Vietnam War and returned 30 years later to cover the peace. For four years (Los Angeles Times), he explored the "new" Vietnam. He encountered many of the personalities from Americas distant, dark days: the legendary general, Vo Nguyen Giap; Hanoi Hannah, once the propaganda voice of North Vietnam. But, more importantly, he describes the lives of uncelebrated Vietnamese - students, former soldiers, shopkeepers, Communist Party members and unabashed capitalists - who share their memories of the wartime past and their hopes for the peacetime future.
£13.99 - Hardcover, 288 pages, May 2002 * £13.50 - Paperback 288 pages, September 2003.
Vietnam: Spirits of The Earth Text by Frances FitzGerald and photos by Mary Cross
Both noted author Frances Fitzgerald and photojournalist Mary Cross. Both have traveled repeatedly to Vietnam and revisited the country together in 1999. From their extensive experience they have created a vivid look of life in contemporary Vietnam, divided into three parts to reflect the countrys three regions - North, Central and South. Among the areas covered are rice culture, Confucianism vs. local tradition, the cult of ancestors, the role of Buddhism, ethnic minorities, handicrafts, the impact and the legacy of French colonialism and the American presence and war, and the tensions within Vietnam society today.
£27.20 - Hardcover - 208 pages - January 2002
When You Were Born in Vietnam: A Memory book for Children Adopted from Vietnam
Therese Bartlett, William Bartlett (Photographer) - This book offers a straightforward and lively explanation of how children in Vietnam are placed for adoption. Brings to life through superb, emotion-filled color photography the story of an adoption from an orphanage in Vietnam. A must for school-aged children who are becoming aware of their own, unique adoption stories as well as for the adults who love them. - £11.22 - Hardcover 44 pages - November 2001 -
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Catfish & Mandala Andrew Pham (2000)
America is full of young old Vietnamese, uncentred, uncertain of their identity. The old generation calls them mat goch, lost roots. One day Andrew Pham - unable to hold down the engineering career his father encouraged - left California on bicycle to search for his roots. He returns to Saigon, not as a success showering money and gifts onto his family, but as an emotional shipwreck, desperate to find out who he really is. This is both an autobiography and travel book, jumping back and forth between Phams adult cycle adventure through his lost homeland and his childhood memories. He feels American, yet to Americans he is an Asian but in Vietnam he is an outsider too, a privileged "Viet-kieu", foreign Vietnamese. - £9.34 - Paperback - 336 pages
Derailed in Uncle Hos Victory Garden Tim Page (1995)
Follows Tim Pages odyssey - 20 years after the liberation of Vietnam - through the land that dominated his life as a war photographer. His job used to be to record the horror, now he can tell of the countrys supreme beauty, and mourn the agony of the killing fields.
£6.39 - Paperback - 251 pages (Reissue 1999)
Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace Gabriel Kolko (1997)
Kolko argues that victory in 1975 caught the Communists unprepared to cope with the reconstruction of the war-torn nation. Looks at the economic program the Communist Party has embarked upon since 1986 and describes the decline of its socialist ideology and transition to nascent capitalism. Based on research and first-hand experience, the text offers a portrait of the profound dilemmas the nation confronts today. Market reforms are producing serious social and economic difficulties in Vietnam; inequality is creating a class society and industrial workers are amongst the most exploited in the world. Outlines how Communists are failing to cope with the contradictions between daily realities and their original idealistic aims.
£15.99 - Paperback - 190 pages
Culture Shock! Vietnam Claire Ellis (1995)
Reviewed in Vietnam Ajour nr. 3/1996, by Rolf Hernø:"The books target group is primarily independent businessmen or employees in private, foreign firms and their wives, and can do much for seeing the positive sides in their first frustrating experiences in Vietnam.". A look at the customs, etiquette, culture and traditions of Vietnam for those visiting the country, to live or on Business.
£9.95 - Paperback - 263 pages
Succeed in Business in Vietnam Kevin Chambers (1996)
A reader from USA: This is a well written and informative guide. It is much better written, and much more insightful, than most books of its kind. It is very useful for any person thinking of doing business in Vietnam ... in fact, I would call it "essential". Same publishing house as "Culture Shock!"
£9.95 - Paperback - 224 pages
Shadows and Wind - A View on Modern Vietnam (Amazon USA) Robert Templer (1998)
Anmeldt i VietNam ajour No. 3/1999: "The book gives a refreshingly open insight on Vietnams problems, and is warmly recommended."
Explores the country behind the myths and images, looking at Vietnams literature, history, art and architecture, politics, religion and food. The author shows the emerging popular culture and the Vietnamese at home and overseas. - Excerpt from the book
$11.16 - Paperback - 400 pages (September 1999) - Penguin USA - Sold Out in UK
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Womens Bodies, Womens Worries: Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Commune
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by Tine GammeltoftReligion
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Pagodas, Gods and Spirits of Vietnam: Popular Religion, Sacred Buildings and Religious Art in Vietnam Ann Helen UngerReveals in text and illustrations the varied and prolific religions of Vietnam. Despite government discouragement of religions, the deeply anchored faiths of the Vietnamese people have continued to flourish and to increase their hold on the believers. Everywhere the offerings are heaped up on altars, hundreds of thousands of the faithful stream again on pilgrimages, and there is a regular increase in the thanksgiving rites in the chuas, dinhs and dens, the pagodas, the village ceremony halls and hero temples all over the land. Vietnam is generally described as a Buddhist country, but in contrast to Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, the Vietnamese follow a Buddhism which is far from pure. The faith and its teachings were adopted from India about 1000 years ago, but it was mingled with more ancient indigenous ancestor cults and spirit beliefs which were suitable to local customs and needs. This pantheon has produced sacred sites, architecture and religious practices of great interest. The book also shows how the great number of religious buildings throughout the country. Used (see price) Hardcover, 1997, 198 pages Background Essay: "Religion in Vietnam, A World of Gods and Spirits" 30 pages - 1985. Author: Hue-Tam Ho Tai. |
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NIAS PressCham Muslims of the Mekong Delta by Philip Taylor, Published May 2007 |
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Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta: Place and Mobility in the Cosmopolitan Periphery
by Philip Taylor - Biography Philip Taylor
This intriguing account of the vigorous survival of an Islamic community in the strife-torn borderlands of the lower Mekong delta, and of its creative accommodation to the modernising reforms of the Vietnamese government, shows how Islam provides a unifying focus for the Cham people in their diversely-constituted rural settlements. Although officially regarded as one of Vietnams nationial minority groups, the multilingual Cham are part of a cosmopolitan, transnational community, and as traders, pilgrims and labour migrants are found throughout mainland Southeast Asia and beyond it.
£14.99 Published May 2007 - NIAS Press, 248 pages - UNIREPS (for outside Europa)
Article: Economy in Motion: Cham Muslim Traders in the Mekong Delta, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, December 2006, Pages 237-250. Link to article
Beyond Hanoi: Local Government in Vietnam Edited by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet and David Marr
First book in English to examine local government and authority in Vietnam since the countrys reunification in 1975.
Includes daring criticism of Party rule at the local level. This volume addresses four questions: what local institutions and offices have authority to govern; who are the local officials and how do they get their positions; what do local governments do and whose interests do they serve; and what do residents say about local officials and governing institutions? Based on in-depth research, six chapters emphasize particular villages and districts in different parts of the country, one examines a ward in Hanoi, another focuses on Ho Chi Minh City, and one compares leaders in several provinces. To contextualize conditions today, two chapters analyze local government in Vietnams long history. The opening chapter synthesizes the findings in this book with those in other studies by researchers inside and outside Vietnam.
Price: £18.99 - Published by NIAS Press, 2004, 288 pages
Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam Edited by Lisa Drummond and Helle Rydstrom
The topic is important because our knowledge of contemporary Vietnamese society is still limited, and studies of gender-related topics are few and far between. Because it breaks so much new ground on Vietnamese society, the book will be of interest to Vietnam specialists working on non-gender topics, as well as non-specialists. Confucianism, colonialism and socialism have all contributed significantly to gender relations in Vietnam. More recently, political and social change associated with modernization and globalization have also had an impact. How do the Vietnamese display their social positions and their identities as male or female? This volume examines negotiations, and transgressions, of gender within Vietnamese society, looking at gender family, social and work relations, bodily displays, body language and occupation of space. Of special interest is a discussion of sexual harassment in schools and the workplace, and the strategies women adopt to deal with it, the first discussion of this issue by a Vietnamese scholar. "Gender-related studies on contemporary Vietnam are few in number, and most writing concentrates on socio-economic topics. This books focus on the fundamental issues of gender roles is a significant contribution." (Bruce M. Lockhart, National University of Singapore)
Price: £18.99 - Published by NIAS Press, 2004, 286 pages, Illustrations
Reaching for the Dream: Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam Edited by Melanie Beresford and Angie Ngoc Tran - Transition economies allow the study of fundamental questions about the nature of markets. How do they arise and do they necessarily follow the same modus operandi as markets in other countries? How does the state influence the development of markets? How does the opening of the economy to global market influences affect the process of institutional change? How do people respond to both internal and external influences? And how in the context of an underdeveloped transitional economy like Vietnam, do such influences affect the prospects for sustainable and equitable development? This book focuses on the differentiated ways in which the double transition in Vietnam, from central planning and from under-development, affects various sectors of the population.
Offers a unique and comprehensive analysis of the double transition in Vietnam, from central planning and from under-development.
Written from both macro and micro perspectives using concrete case studies.
Price: £16.99 - Published by NIAS Press, 2004, 288 pages, Illustrated
Cookbooks
Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart
The best Asian cookbook for 2008 was overseas Vietnamese Pauline Nguyen’s Secrets of the Red Lanterns: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart. The authors’ life story is also creatively weaved around succulent recipes, telling the storing of a Vietnamese family running a successful restaurant in Sydney - the Red Lantern. The book introduces 275 Vietnamese dishes such as fried meat rolls and braised fish. Through special, simple and familiar Vietnamese recipes, the author reveals her family’s cooking secrets. The traditional recipes in the book express the nostalgia of the Vietnamese diaspora.
344 pages £15.49
Easy Vietnamese-style Cookery The Australian Womens Weekly Home Library (1995).
Come on a journey to discover the delights of Vietnamese cuisine, with its use of fresh, healthy ingredients and delicate tastes and textures. A4-format with many photos, great value from the money.
Paperback - 128 pages - Used from £3.44
Vietnamese Cooking Paulette Do Van
An very good and cheap introduction to the cuisine of Vietnam.
£3.99 - Paperback - 128 pages (2000)
Lonely Planet: World Food: Vietnam Lonely Planet
For people who live to eat, drink & travel. Offers cuisine highlights maps, and regional and city maps, and a few recipes. As well as containing explorations of regional influences and traditional cooking, provides guides to markets, dining out and celebrating plus a cuisine dictionary.
£5.59 - Paperback - 254 pages (2000).
Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table Mai Pham
From Vietnamese markets, noodle shops and home kitchens, chef and restaurateur Mai Pham assembles delicious recipes, all capturing the fresh, exotic flavours of this vibrant land. Centring on the beloved national dish of pho, a richly layered broth of beef and rice noodle soup, this book also features such Vietnamese classics as Hue Chicken Salad, Sizzling Saigon Crepes and Seafood Stew with Lemongrass and Dill. All are authentic, accessible and easy to create. Filled with enchanting stories and photographs as well as an ingredient glossary and source guide, Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table is a delightful introduction to a distinctive cuisine.
£13.47 - Hardcover 253 pages (August 2001)
The Foods of Vietnam Nicole Routhier and Martin Jacobs (Photographer)
Discuss the development of Vietnamese cuisine from a variety of foreign influences, and presents more than 150 traditional easy-to-follow recipes, a glossary of ingredients, menu ideas, and more. This book has beautiful photographs and the instructions are well written enough so that both the novice and the expert will appreciate it.
£14.67 - Paperback - 256 pages (August 1999) - Availability: within 1-2 weeks.
Authentic Vietnamese Cooking Corinne Trang (2000) - Lists 100 family favorite recipes. Step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions. Regional foods of Vietnam. Classics such as cha gio (spring rolls), pho (Hanois famous rice noodle soup), cari rau cai (vegetable curry), tom nuong xa (grilled lemongrass prawns), ga kho gung (braised chicken with ginger), and banh gan (coconut creme caramel). Perhaps the healthiest of all Asian cuisines, Vietnamese cooking offers steamed, stir-fried, and braised dishes complimented with medleys of copious fresh herbs. Also historical, cultural, and personal anecdotes, a shopping guide, including beautiful photographs and thorough descriptions of ingredients. £10.49 - Hardcover
Lemongrass & Lime, new Vietnamese cooking from Bam-Bou. Preface Mogens Tholstrup, Recipes Mark Reda, photos Jean Cazals - Lemongrass & Lime introduces modern Vietnamese cooking, as pioneered by chef Mark Reid at restaurant Bam-Bou in London. Recipes range from the traditional - such as Sour Green Mango Salad, Baked Fillet of Lemon Sole in Banana Leaf or Pho-Bo Noodle Soup - to the decadent: Crispy Quail with Watercress and Tamarind or Chocolate and Lemongrass Mousse. All taste refreshing and full of flavour, perhaps because this brand of cooking is low in fat and high in fresh herbs and spices. Web-site www.bam-bou.co.uk. - £20.00 - Hardcover 2000 - 192 pages
CDs
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Vietnam - Anthology of World Music Various Artists What the Critics Say... Dirty Linen (8-9/99, p.60) - "...reflects a cultural admixture of Indian and Chinese influences. Several selections are performed with two-stringed fiddle, lute, and a 16-string zither, which produces a spare tonality....provides intriguing windows into the music and culture..." £21.99 - Label: Rounder; 2 CDs, 22 selections |
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