Vietnam At A Crossroads

Author : Mark A. Ashwill
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781931930505

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Vietnam Today by Mark A. Ashwill Pdf

"Pulsating with energy and steeped in dreams." Vietnam stands at a crossroads. Located in the geographical center of Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a complex mixture of the ancient and the modern. A Soviet-style legacy contrasts with an emerging Western-style market economy. Vietnam is faced with pressing political, social and economic challenges, and yet it is full of hope and potential. Here is a first look at Vietnam in the twenty-first century, a nation undergoing rapid change and opening up to the world. Dr. Mark Ashwill paints a broad picture of Vietnam, past and present, and explores today's defining issues. Readers come to understand how a two-thousand-year history of foreign invasion, occupation and war has deeply influenced the Vietnamese character. The Chinese, French and U.S. Americans have all left their imprint. Yet the struggle against oppression has infused the Vietnamese with a fierce spirit of nationalism and caution in their dealings with foreigners. Building relationships and trust as a prelude to doing business are critical to the Vietnamese, whether at home or abroad. Vietnam Today reveals the most prominent characteristics of the Vietnamese: their energy and drive, the dominance of group over individual and the paramount importance of maintaining harmony. In doing so, Ashwill and his Vietnamese contributor shed light on many sources of misunderstanding between Vietnamese and Western professionals. But for those who are prepared to take the time to get to know the people, to move at their pace, and to learn about their culture and history, Vietnam can be a land of promise and opportunity.

Author : Michael Charles Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029096299

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Vietnam at the Crossroads by Michael Charles Williams Pdf

Author : Claire Hollweg,Tanya Smith,Daria Taglioni
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464809828

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Vietnam at a Crossroads by Claire Hollweg,Tanya Smith,Daria Taglioni Pdf

Vietnam is at a crossroads. It can grow as an export platform for GVCs, specializing in low value-added assembly functions with industrialization occurring in enclaves with little connection to the broader economy or society; or it can leverage the current wave of growth, enabled and accelerated by its successful participation in GVCs, to diversify and move up the chain into higher value-added functions. Success will require Vietnam’s policymakers to view the processes of development differently, and to take new realities of the global economy more fully into account. The purpose of this volume is to support Vietnam’s path to economic prosperity by identifying policies and targeted interventions that will drive development through leveraging GVC participation that take major shifts in trade policy and rapid technological advances in ICT into account. The volume is based on a compilation of studies completed by World Bank staff and external consultants in 2015 supporting the “Enabling Economic Modernization and Private Sector Development†? chapter of the Vietnam 2035 report. The objective of these studies was to diagnose Vietnam’s current participation in GVCs, visualize where Vietnam could be by 2035 in the context of a changing global environment, and identify the policy actions needed to get there. The studies also supported topics related more broadly to export competitiveness, including firm-level productivity, services, and connectivity. It then identifies targeted strategies and policy interventions that will help overcome challenges, minimize risks, and maximize opportunities. Readers will gain a strong understanding of Vietnam’s current and potential engagement with GVCs—and will learn about strategic GVC policy tools that can help developing countries achieve economic prosperity in the context of compressed development.

Author : Mitchell K. Hall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0742544443

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Crossroads by Mitchell K. Hall Pdf

American popular culture changed dramatically during the Vietnam era. This book explores the popular culture that shaped the baby boomers and the transformation that generation wrought in movies, television, sports, and music. It looks at the ways in which these cultural elements reflected the upheaval and unrest in Vietnam era America.

Author : Claire H. Hollweg,Tanya Smith,Daria Taglioni
Publisher : Directions in Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464809968

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Vietnam at a Crossroads by Claire H. Hollweg,Tanya Smith,Daria Taglioni Pdf

This volume supports Vietnam's path to economic prosperity by identifying policies and targeted interventions that will drive development through leveraging GVC participation that take major shifts in trade policy and rapid technological advances in ICT into account

Author : Seymour Topping
Publisher : Signature Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Americans
ISBN : 1891936697

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Fatal Crossing by Seymour Topping Pdf

"Seymour Topping, reaching deep into his long reportorial career in Asia, has given us a masterful treatment of history as novel in this gripping story of the leaders and their people who lived the Vietnam tragedy." Walter Cronkite

Author : Tom Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1953300049

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The CrossRoads Diaries by Tom Center Pdf

In The CrossRoads Diaries, you will embark on a year-in-the-life journey through the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. You will journey alongside a combat sailor assigned to the unique Arny-Navy battle-seeking unit known as the Mobile Riverine Force. This book is for: veterans, to let them know there is always hope those seeking knowledge of what combat situations can create young people moving from childhood to adulthood combat veterans' significant others seeking insight about their loved ones anyone wanting information about one of the most specialized combat units ever to exist The CrossRoads Diaries is a mixture of narrative, poetry, pictures, Bible scripture musical lyrics, and the innermost feelings of a young man who spent hundreds of hours per month on deadly river operations in Vietnam, engaged in more than 100 firefights, and then came home. He returned for another tour of duty, this time as a minesweeper on the Cua Viet River. Come along with Tom Center on this riveting journey through the Mekong Delta.

Author : Paul J. Noto
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462050130

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At the Crossroads of Justice by Paul J. Noto Pdf

Vietnam is remembered as the war that divided a nation and scarred a generation. While the vast majority of American personnel in Vietnam served honorably, a few highly publicized atrocities tarnished the reputation of the military. In At the Crossroads of Justice: My Lai and Son ThangAmerican Atrocities in Vietnam, author Paul J. Noto analyzes two of those incidentsMy Lai and Son Thangagainst the backdrop of a flawed military justice system and an arrogant and inept civilian and military leadership that failed to articulate a coherent military strategy to win the war. Noto shows that failure of leadership contributed to problems of command discipline, racial tension, drug abuse, and general disregard for military protocol. His study examines these issues and describes how ordinary American boys became cold-blooded killers seemingly overnight, what combination of factors led to these tragic events, and how the military can prevent them from happening in future conflicts. By studying these crimes and the judicial process that followed, Noto provides an insightful analysis of the related issues and how they have impacted military training to the present day.

Author : Keith Bezanson,Jan Annerstedt,Kun Mo Chung,David Hopper,Geoffrey Oldham,Francisco Sagasti,K Bezanson
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780889368736

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Viet Nam at the Crossroads by Keith Bezanson,Jan Annerstedt,Kun Mo Chung,David Hopper,Geoffrey Oldham,Francisco Sagasti,K Bezanson Pdf

Viet Nam at the Crossroads: The Role of Science and Technology

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 6046205786

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The Economy at a Crossroads by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385693769

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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND THE GUARDIAN Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads. It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high school class, has veered into the era's counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threaten to complicate. By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. Set in a historical moment of moral crisis and reaching back to the early twentieth century, Crossroads is a sweeping investigation of human mythologies as the Hildebrandt family navigates the political, intellectual, and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years.

Author : Dennis Ratering
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1681226111

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Connected to Vietnam: 30 Letters on Vietnam from a Dutch Perspective and Vice Versa by Dennis Ratering Pdf

Vietnam is at a crossroads. It was influenced by external forces for centuries and the Vietnamese were able to integrate these various elements time and time again into one complex identity. Vietnam is much more than the image portrayed by the West. Connected to Vietnam represents a quest to uncover the changing identity of the country. Connected to Vietnam is a personal account of 30 letters that bridges the geographical, cultural and social differences between Vietnam and The Netherlands. Proceeds from the book will fund education and health projects in Vietnam. Dennis Ratering is a History and Geography teacher in a Dutch secondary school. He found himself at the crossroads of cultures as he conducted field research in the Vietnamese city of Can Tho.

Author : George Mariscal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520921146

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Aztlán and Viet Nam by George Mariscal Pdf

Showcasing over sixty short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, Aztlán and Viet Nam is the first anthology of Mexican American writings about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia. The words are startlingly frank, moving, and immensely powerful, as they call to our attention an important and neglected part of U.S. history. Gathered from many little-known sources, the works reflect both the soldiers' experience and the antiwar movement at home. Taken together, they illustrate the contradictions faced by the traditionally patriotic Mexican American community, and show us the war and the grassroots opposition to it from a new perspective—one that goes beyond the familiar dichotomy of black and white America. George Mariscal offers critical introductions and provides historical background by identifying specific issues which have not been widely discussed in relation to the war, noting, for example, the potential for Chicano soldiers to recognize their own ethnic and class identities in those of the Vietnamese people. Drawing upon interviews with key participants in the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, Mariscal analyzes the antiwar movement, the Catholic Church, traditional Mexican American groups, and an emerging feminist consciousness among Chicanas. Also included are personal accounts: Norma Elia Cantú's remembrance of her brother who died in combat, Bárbara Renaud González's evocative poem about Chicanas on the homefront, Alberto Ríos's and Naomi Helena Quiñonez's moving poetry about the Wall, and the recollections of Abelardo Delgado and others on the August 29, 1970 Moratorium.

Author : Roderick Macdonald
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030197223

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Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Economic Community by Roderick Macdonald Pdf

This book is an introduction to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the economic community founded by Southeast Asian nations. It provides both economic profiles of the member nations and an explanation of the Community itself. This book also discusses the impact of China on the AEC. The book is a starting point for research into the region or into any member country, whether for academic or for business purposes. With over 170 tables and figures as well as an abundance of historical facts, the book offers data-based insights.

Author : Jonathan D London
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789814279055

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Education in Vietnam by Jonathan D London Pdf

Vietnam is a country on the move. Yet contemporary Vietnam's education system is at a crossroads. Rapid economic growth has permitted rapid increases in the scale and scope of formal schooling, but there is a prevailing sense that the current education system is inadequate to the country’s needs. Sunny assessments of Vietnam's “achievements” in the sphere of education have given way to a realization that the country lacks skilled workers. Some have even spoken of an "education crisis". These are not abstract concerns. What is occurring in Vietnam's education system today has broad implications for the country’s social, political, economic, and cultural development. Featuring contributions from scholars and policy analysts from within and outside Vietnam, Education in Vietnam addresses key issues pertaining to the political economy of education, the provision and payment for primary and secondary education, and the development of vocational and tertiary education. The book marks an important contribution to existing understandings of Vietnam’s education system and contributes to broader understandings of social conditions and change in contemporary Vietnam.