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Fragments of the Present, Searching for Modernity in Vietnam's South

Fragments of the Present, Searching for Modernity in Vietnam's South

by Philip Taylor

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 237 PAGES

In this wide-ranging anthropological study, based on a field work in a Mekong delta village, Taylor looks at southern Vietnam's postwar history, economic and social change and the contrast between urban and rural life.  (VNM62, $34.00)


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