Tradition, revolution, and market economy in a North Vietnamese village, 1925-2006.

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TypeSOURCE_BOOK
PublisherUniversity of Hawaiʻi Press
ISBN-139780824833701
Open LibraryOL18619157W
Total publications1
Coverage period2010 - 2010
LanguageEN

This book examines both continuity and change over eight decades in a small rural village deep in the North Vietnamese countryside. Son-Duong, a community near the Red River, experienced first-hand the ravages of French colonialism and the American war, as well as the socialist revolution and Vietnam's recent reintegration into the global market economy. This revised and expanded edition of the 1992 book, Revolution in the Village, draws on newly available archival documents in Hanoi, narratives by villagers, and three field seasons from the late 1980s to 2006. It situates the finely drawn village portrait within the historical framework of the Vietnamese revolution and the recent reforms in Vietnam. The book follows the oral testimony of surviving villagers throughout political and economic upheavals, compiling a wealth of original data as they actively restructure their daily lives. In the analysis of the implications of these data for theoretical models of agrarian transformation, the book argues that local traditions have played a major role in shaping villagers' responses to colonialism, socialist policies, and the global market economy. The work, spanning eight decades of sociocultural change, will interest students and scholars of the Vietnamese revolution, agrarian politics, peasant societies, French colonialism, and socialist transformation

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