Understanding VietnamUniversity of California Press, 15 thg 11, 2023 - 428 trang The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the Vietnamese clung to and fought over their own competing visions of what Vietnam was and what it might become. To understand the war, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture, and their ways of looking at the world. Neil L. Jamieson, after many years of living and working in Vietnam, has written the book that provides this understanding. Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century Vietnam. Against the background of traditional Vietnamese culture, he takes us through the saga of modern Vietnamese history and Western involvement in the country, from the coming of the French in 1858 through the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout his analysis, he allows the Vietnamese—both our friends and foes, and those who wished to be neither—to speak for themselves through poetry, fiction, essays, newspaper editorials and reports of interviews and personal experiences. By putting our old and partial perceptions into this new and broader context, Jamieson provides positive insights that may perhaps ease the lingering pain and doubt resulting from our involvement in Vietnam. As the United States and Vietnam appear poised to embark on a new phase in their relationship, Jamieson's book is particularly timely. |
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The Traditional Vietnamese View of the World | 11 |
Vietnamese Society as a System oYin and Yang | 12 |
Traditional Vietnamese Values and Institutions | 15 |
The Success and Failure of the Traditional System | 40 |
CONFRONTATION WITH THE WEST 18581930 | 42 |
The Supervillages of Vietnam | 213 |
The Bao Dai Government and the French 19481954 | 220 |
The New Yang of the Resistance | 221 |
Dien Bien Phu 1954 | 225 |
The Nationalist Dilemma | 228 |
The Polarization into Two Vietnamese States 1954 | 232 |
YIN AND YANG IN MODERN GUISE 19551970 | 234 |
A Coalescence of Yin Forces | 241 |
The Fermentation of Vietnamese Culture 19081932 | 65 |
THE YIN OF EARLY MODERN VIETNAMESE CULTURE CHALLENGES THE YANG OF TRADITION 19321939 | 100 |
Literature Challenges the Real World | 104 |
The New Poetry | 108 |
Individualism | 111 |
The Battle of the Novels | 117 |
The Paradigmatic Battle Continues | 154 |
A Desperate Generation | 159 |
The Darkening of the 1930s | 169 |
THE END OF COLONIALISM AND THE EMERGENCE OF TWO COMPETING MODELS FOR BUILDING A MODERN NATION 19401954 | 176 |
Literature and Society 19401944 | 182 |
A Fateful Summer 1945 | 191 |
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam AugustOctober 1945 | 193 |
Things Fall Apart in Saigon 1945 | 197 |
From Politics to War November 1945December 1946 | 199 |
The Resistance and the Intellectuals 19461947 | 205 |
The Anticommunist Factions 19471950 | 210 |
Anxious Souls in the Republic of Vietnam | 246 |
The Supervillage of Insurgency | 254 |
Setting the Thermostat in the North 19551958 | 257 |
The Ideological Foundations in the North 19581968 | 271 |
Inverted Images 19591968 | 284 |
The War the Americans and Vietnamese Society | 292 |
Continuity and Change in Values in the South | 296 |
Patterns in Chaos | 303 |
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN VIETNAMESE CULTURE 19681975 | 307 |
The Development of Urban Yin Subsystems | 318 |
Estrangement and Farewell | 338 |
ANOTHER CYCLE UNFOLDS | 357 |
Resetting the Social Thermostat in the South | 360 |
A New Yin Reaction | 371 |
A Concluding Thought | 375 |
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