Vietnam: Rising Dragon

273 Pages·2010·20.563 MB·English

by  Bill Hayton

Rising Dra gon
Bill Hayton
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VIETNAM
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Vietnam 9
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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 6
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Copyright © 2010 Bill Hayton
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6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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Vietnam: Rising Dragon/Hayton, Bill
8 p. cm.
9 Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–300–15203–6 (ci: alk. paper)
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1. Social change—Vietnam. 2. Vietnam—History—1975– 3. Vietnam—Politics and
1 government—1975–4. Vietnam—Economic conditions—1975– 5. Vietnam—Social
conditions—1975– 6. <ang conˆg san
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Vieˆt Nam. I. Title.
3 DS559.912.H39 2010
959.704’4—dc22
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2009026502
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For Pam, Tess and Patrick
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the lights of my life
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Contents
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List of Illustrations and Maps viii 4
Acknowledgements x 5
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Introduction: Another Vietnam xii
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1 The communist capitalist playground 1
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2 Selling the fields 26 20
3 Living on the streets 46 1
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4 Grandfather is watching you 68
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5 ‘Greet the Party, Greet Spring!’ 91
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6 The rise and fall of Bloc 8406 113
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7 A sharp knife, but not too sharp 135 6
8 See it before it’s gone 159 7
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9 Enemies into friends 181
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10 Schisms and divisions 203
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Suggestions for Further Reading 236 4
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Index 239
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Illustrations and Maps
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1 Rights were not granted to include these illustrations in electronic media.
2 Please refer to print publication.
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Illustrations
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6 1 Selling chicks at a market in the central town of Hoi An.
7 2 A former government store, in the Old Quarter of Hanoi.
8 3 Stella Shoe Factory outside Hai Phong.
9 4 Farmers in the northwestern village of Mai Chau.
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1 6 An illegal ‘frog’ market in Hanoi.
2 7 Nguyen Quy Duc Street residents protest in December 2006.
3 8 Nguyen Quy Duc Street in May 2009.
4 9 A badminton court in Lenin Park.
5 10 A newly-married couple in southeastern Hanoi.
6 11 Rapper Kim at a hip-hop gig in southern Hanoi.
7 12 A DJ at a hip-hop gig in southern Hanoi.
8 13 Helmeted motorcyclists.
9 14 Children in the Mekong Delta use the internet.
30 15 The citadel excavations in June 2009.
1 16 Local children in Lenin Park.
2 17 The Mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh in Ba Dinh Square, central Hanoi.
3 18 Nong Duc Manh, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of
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5 19 Nguyen Tan Dung, the Prime Minister.
6 20 A Buddhist monk and a military officer at the National Assembly, May
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21 Official slogan on a local neighbourhood notice board. 1
22 Nguyen Van Dai, a human rights lawyer. 2
23 A security officer guards the home of Pham Hong Son in October 2006. 3
24 Junks in Ha Long Bay. 4
25 The memorial on Kham Thien Street. 5
26 A laden down motorbike in the village of Dong Ho. 6
27 The wreckage of a US bomber in a lake in central Hanoi. 7
28 Food shop in Hanoi. (Photo: David Pinder) 8
29 Ministry of Defence complex in central Hanoi. 9
30 A women’s delegation at the Military Museum, central Hanoi. 10
31 Celebrating American Independence Day, 2006. 1
32 Sculptor’s shop in northern Hanoi. 2
33 Ethnology Museum, Hanoi. 3
34 The terraced hills of the northwestern highlands, near the town of 4
Sa Pa. 5
35 Handicrafts for tourists in Ta Van village. 6
36 Pagoda at the foot of Nui Sam mountain in the Mekong Delta. 7
37 Quan Su Pagoda, central Hanoi. 8
38 Offerings for the lunar New Year at Ba Da Pagoda. 9
39 Hanoi’s Old Quarter. (Photo: David Pinder) 20
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1: A General Map of Vietnam. 6
2: Vietnam, the frontier between East and Southeast Asia. 7
3: Map by Herman Moll in 1720 showing ‘Indochina’. From the collection 8
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