Vietnam: Rising Dragon 9780300175400

Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations and Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Another Vietnam
1 The communist capitalist playground
2 Selling the fields
3 Living on the streets
4 Grandfather is watching you
5 ‘Greet the Party, Greet Spring!’
6 The rise and fall of Bloc 8406
7 A sharp knife, but not too sharp
8 See it before it’s gone
9 Enemies into friends
10 Schisms and divisions
Epilogue
Notes
Suggestions for further reading
Index

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VIETNAM

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Vietnam Rising Dragon Bill Hayton

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN AND LONDON

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Copyright © 2010 Bill Hayton All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press) without written permission from the publishers. For information about this and other Yale University Press publications, please contact: U.S. Office: [email protected] www.yalebooks.com Europe Office: [email protected] www.yalebooks.co.uk Set in Arno by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd Printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vietnam: Rising Dragon/Hayton, Bill p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–300–15203–6 (ci: alk. paper) 1. Social change—Vietnam. 2. Vietnam—History—1975– 3. Vietnam—Politics and government—1975–4. Vietnam—Economic conditions—1975– 5. Vietnam—Social conditions—1975– 6.