The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975 – Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building

The Republic of Vietnam, 19551975Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building\nAuthor(s): Tuong Vu, Sean Fear\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University\nISBN-13: 9781501745133, 978-1501745133\nSynopsis\nThrough the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, [tel], presents us with an interpretation of \""South Vietnam\"" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government.\n\n The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and edited here by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear describe the experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam's Second Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally call the \""Vietnam War.\"" The voices gift the reader a sense .