Vietnam and the West
Subtitle: new approaches
By: Wynn Wilcox, editor
Contributors: Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program
Series: Studies on Southeast Asia -- no. 52
Publisher: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780877277828; 9780877277521
Subjects: Congresses; Civilization; Western influences; Relations; History
Notes: "This volume grew out of a conference with the same title that was held at Western Connecticut State University on December 4-5, 2005"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the co-figuration of Vietnam and the West / Wynn Wilcox; title: Precolonial encounters (to 1862). The rise of Christian Nôm literature in seventeenth-century Vietnam : fusing European content and local expression / Brian Ostrowski ; Jean Marie Despiau : unjustly maligned physician in the medical service of the Nguyên / C. Michele Thompson ; Đặng Đức Tuá̂n and the complexities of nineteenth-century Vietnamese Christian identity / Wynn Wilcox; title: French and American encounters (1862-1975). More than half the sky : Vietnamese women and anti-French political activism, 1858-1945 / Micheline Lessard ; Persuading the enemy : Vietnamese appeals to non-white forces of occupation, 1945-1975 / Marc Jason Gilbert ; The paradox of western-style trade unionism in South Vietnam / Edmund F. Wehrle ; The search for a third force in Vietnam : from The quiet American to the Paris peace agreement / Sophie Quinn-Judge; title: Recent encounters (1975-present). Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the United States : blurring the boundaries / Diane Niblack Fox ; Strategic waters, tragic waters : water privatization in Vietnam / Christopher L. Kukk