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Book Vietnamese Traditional Medicine

Download or read book Vietnamese Traditional Medicine written by C. Michele Thompson and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detailed historical and linguistic research restores agency and voice to practitioners of Vietnamese medicine, showing how the adoption of Chinese and then Western ideas of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries relied on indigenous Vietnamese concepts of health and the human body. She mines medical manuscripts in Chinese and in Nom (vernacular Vietnamese) to capture various aspects of the historical interaction between Chinese and Vietnamese thought. She presents a detailed analysis of the Vietnamese response to a Chinese medical technique for preventing smallpox, and to the medical concepts associated with it, looking at Vietnamese healers from a variety of social classes. Thompson's account brings together colorful historical vignettes, contemporary observations and interviews, and textual analysis. It stands out as a demonstration of the power of the history of medicine to illuminate adjacent fields of enquiry. It will be of interest to historians of medicine globally and in East Asia, as well as to students of Vietnam and its complex process of modernization.

Book Postcolonial Vietnam

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  • Author : Patricia M. Pelley
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2002-11-26
  • ISBN : 0822384205
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Postcolonial Vietnam written by Patricia M. Pelley and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should be included as participants and agents in the story. Beginning with government-appointed historians’ first publications in 1954 and following their efforts over the next thirty years, Patricia M. Pelley surveys this daunting process and, in doing so, opens a wide window on the historical forces and tensions that have gone into shaping the new nation of Vietnam. Although she considers a variety of sources—government directives, census reports, statistics, poetry, civic festivities, ethnographies, and museum displays—Pelley focuses primarily on the work of official historians in Hanoi who argued about and tried to stabilize the meaning of topics ranging from prehistory to the Vietnam War. She looks at their strained and idiosyncratic attempts to plot the Vietnamese past according to Marxist and Stalinist paradigms and their ultimate abandonment of such models. She explores their struggle to redefine Vietnam in multiethnic terms and to normalize the idea of the family-state. Centering on the conversation that began in 1954 among historians in North Vietnam, her work identifies a threefold process of creating the new history: constituting historiographical issues, resolving problems of interpretation and narration, and conventionalizing various elements of the national narrative. As she tracks the processes that shaped the history of postcolonial Vietnam, Pelley dismantles numerous clichés of contemporary Vietnamese history and helps us to understand why and how its history-writing evolved.

Book Crossroads

Download or read book Crossroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Checklist of State Publications

Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.

Book Ming Southeast Asian Overland Interactions  1368 1644

Download or read book Ming Southeast Asian Overland Interactions 1368 1644 written by Laichen Sun and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Borrowing Court Systems

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  • Author : Penelope Nicholson
  • Publisher : London-Leiden Law, Administrat
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Borrowing Court Systems written by Penelope Nicholson and published by London-Leiden Law, Administrat. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on legal culture, this book offers an English-language reading of Vietnamese court history from 1945 to the present day, including an analysis of the extent to which the DRVN courts (1945 - 1976) mirrored or diverged from the Soviet model.

Book Scripts  Signs  and Swords

Download or read book Scripts Signs and Swords written by Claudia Michele Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vietnam

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  • Author : David G. Marr
  • Publisher : Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Vietnam written by David G. Marr and published by Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Five Hundred Books

Download or read book Five Hundred Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indochina Chronology

Download or read book Indochina Chronology written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographies on Southeast Asia

Download or read book Bibliographies on Southeast Asia written by and published by Kitlv Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Asian Studies

Download or read book Bibliography of Asian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam written by Jonathan D. London and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam is a comprehensive resource exploring social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of Vietnam, one of contemporary Asia’s most dynamic but least understood countries. Following an introduction that highlights major changes that have unfolded in Vietnam over the past three decades, the volume is organized into four thematic parts: Politics and Society Economy and Society Social Life and Institutions Cultures in Motion Part I addresses key aspects of Vietnam’s politics, from the role of the Communist Party of Vietnam in shaping the country’s institutional evolution, to continuity and change in patterns of socio-political organization, political expression, state repression, diplomatic relations, and human rights. Part II assesses the transformation of Vietnam’s economy, addressing patterns of economic growth, investment and trade, the role of the state in the economy, and other economic aspects of social life. Parts III and IV examine developments across a variety of social and cultural fields through chapters on themes including welfare, inequality, social policy, urbanization, the environment and society, gender, ethnicity, the family, cuisine, art, mass media, and the politics of remembrance. Featuring 38 essays by leading Vietnam scholars from around the world, this book provides a cutting-edge analysis of Vietnam’s transformation and changing engagement with the world. It is an invaluable interdisciplinary reference work that will be of interest to students and academics of Southeast Asian studies, as well as policymakers, analysts, and anyone wishing to learn more about contemporary Vietnam.

Book China and Vietnam

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  • Author : William J. Duiker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book China and Vietnam written by William J. Duiker and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vietnamese City in Transition

Download or read book The Vietnamese City in Transition written by Patrick Gubry and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 2010 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Doi Moi policy of economic renovation was introduced in 1986, Vietnam has undergone deep transformations as a result of the transition to a socialist-oriented market economy. Social and urban transition has taken place in parallel, as urban dynamics were spurred on by Vietnamese public and private stakeholders, and by external agents such as international organizations and international solidarity organizations, experts, consultants and bilateral aid organizations.Here are the results of research carried out by French, Canadian and Vietnamese teams from the north and south of the country on the overarching theme of Vietnamese cities in transition. Some of this research deals with urban dynamics, some with the issues at stake within such dynamics, or with the strategies of the most significant stakeholders in urban transition: civil society, donors within the framework of official aid for development, consultants and international consultancy firms. These projects were carried out between 2001 and 2004 as part of the Urban Research Programme for Development (PRUD), and mainly focus on Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, or both in the case of comparative studies.Is there such a thing as a Vietnamese model of an Asian city? It seems that urban transition in Vietnam is not taking place in as radical and abrupt a manner as in China. The country's capacity for absorbing external models, the quest for a third way between state intervention and economic liberalism, and the fact that the country's architectural heritage is taken into account in urban planning, are just some of the reasons for its particularity. The issues addressed in each chapter, as well as the proposals for further research suggested by the contributors, should act as a catalyst for urban research in Vietnam.

Book Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam

Download or read book Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam written by Lisa Drummond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly urbanising one with a global outlook. These changes have been the catalyst for an exciting ferment of activity in popular culture. This volume contains contributions from scholars engaged in the most up-to-date social research in Vietnam, as well as some of Vietnam's most popular cultural producers who are forging new ways of imagining the present whilst at the same time engaging actively in reinterpreting the past. The diverse ways that Vietnam is culturally and socially negotiating the future are examined as the book addresses issues of indigenisation of cultural influences, ambivalence surrounding change, and the consistent blurring of boundaries between informal, non-state cultural activities and formal institutional structures in the evolution of a civil society in Vietnam.