Vietnam: Rising Dragon

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The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society, booming cities swallowing up smaller villages, and the lure of up to date living tugging on the traditional networks of circle of relatives and community. Yet beneath these sweeping developments lurks an authoritarian political system that complicates the nation’s apparent renaissance. On this engaging work, experienced journalist Bill Hayton looks on the costs of change in Vietnam and questions whether this rising Asian power is actually heading toward capitalism and democracy.

Based on vivid eyewitness accounts and pertinent case studies, Hayton’s book addresses a broad variety of issues in nowadays’s Vietnam, including vital shifts in international relations, the growth of civil society, economic developments and challenges, and the nation’s nascent democracy movement in addition to its notorious internal security. His analysis of Vietnam’s “police state,” and its systematic mechanisms of social regulate, coercion, and surveillance, is fresh and particularly imperative when viewed alongside his portraits of urban and street life, cultural legacies, religion, the media, and the arts. With a firm sense of historical and cultural context, Hayton examines how these issues have emerged and where they’ll lead Vietnam in the next stage of its development.

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