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Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam

by Robert Templer
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Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam
Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam

Insightful exploration of Vietnam's modern complexities.

If you're intrigued by how a nation evolves after a tumultuous history, "Shadows and Wind" would be a compelling read for you. Templer doesn't just romanticize Vietnam; he delves into its transformation, revealing a landscape of contrasts with vivid anecdotes and meticulous research. It's a window into the soul of a place grappling with the remnants of its past and the uncertainties of capitalist ventures. This book would suit anyone keen on understanding the true fabric of a country in metamorphosis.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam

by Robert Templer
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ISBN: 9780140285970
Authors: Robert Templer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 1999-09-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel, History, Politics
Related Topics: Travelogue, History, Politics, Social Justice, Society, Asia
Goodreads rating: 3.42
(rated by 130 readers)

Description

In Shadows and Wind, Robert Templer paints a fascinating and fresh picture of a country usually viewed with hazy nostalgia or deep suspicion. Here is Hanoi, an increasingly tense and troubled city approaching its millennium but uncertain of its direction. Here are people emerging from a long wilderness of malnutrition, discovering a new lifestyle of leisure and luxury. And everywhere are the anomalies that burst the bubble of optimism: a vastly expensive luxury hotel sitting empty in an unknown town six hours from an international airport; museums crammed with fake exhibits. And there remains the one-party Communist state, still wrapped in secrecy and corruption, and making for an uneasy bedfellow with the rapacious capitalism it now encourages. Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Vietnam and years of research, Robert Templer has produced the first in-depth examination of the problems facing modern Vietnam. Shadows and Wind is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Vietnam that now has emerged from a century of conflict with both foreign powers and with itself.
 

Insightful exploration of Vietnam's modern complexities.

If you're intrigued by how a nation evolves after a tumultuous history, "Shadows and Wind" would be a compelling read for you. Templer doesn't just romanticize Vietnam; he delves into its transformation, revealing a landscape of contrasts with vivid anecdotes and meticulous research. It's a window into the soul of a place grappling with the remnants of its past and the uncertainties of capitalist ventures. This book would suit anyone keen on understanding the true fabric of a country in metamorphosis.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.