Searching for Vietnam Selected Writings on

Volume 9 of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia brings together the author's selected writings about Vietnam from the past forty years. The book opens with an autobiographical account of his history as a Vietnam researcher that sets each of the selections into the context of the time and situation in which it was written. The writings are grouped into five topical sections: cultural history, religion, and cultural ecology; the Vietnamese village; the impact of the war on South Vietnamese society; Vietnam's development prospects in the its reform period; and problems of development in Vietnam's mountains.

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

x

List of Maps

x

List of Abbreviations

xi

Biographical Note

xv

Preface

xvi

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction: Reflections on an intellectual journey

1

(56)

Part I: Vietnamese Culture

Introduction to Part I

57

(3)

1 Black flight suits and white do dais: Borrowing and adaptation of symbols of Vietnamese cultural identity

60

(9)

2 Religion and society in Vietnam

69

(40)

3 Culture, environment, and human settlement in the uplands of Vietnam

109

(6)

Part II: The Vietnamese Village

Introduction to Part II

115

(2)

1 The occurrence of closed corporate and open peasant social systems in Vietnam

117

(15)

2 Closed corporate communities: Reopening a hastily shut case

132

(9)

3 Prospects for sustainable development in the villages of the Red River Delta (coauthored with Lê Trong Cúc)

141

(22)

Part III: The Impact of the War on South Vietnamese Society

Introduction to Part III

163

(2)

1 Why they are winning: A field note from the wartime south

165

(2)

2 Cultural change in rural South Vietnam (coauthored with Neil L. Jamieson)

167

(43)

3 The causes of Vietnamese refugee movement

210

(11)

4 Why they fled: Refugee movement during the spring 1975 communist offensive in South Vietnam (coauthored with Lê Thi Qué. and Gary D. Murfin)

221

(10)

5 South Vietnam: Why the sky fell so fast

231

(12)

Part IV: Vietnam's Development Prospects in the Reform Period

Introduction to Part IV

243

(2)

1 Environment, natural resources, and the future development of Laos and Vietnam: An overview

245

(12)

2 The challenges of Vietnam's reconstruction (coauthored with Nguyên Manh Hùng and Neil L. Jamieson)

257

(9)

3 Dilemmas of development in Vietnam

266

(15)

Part V: Problems of Development in Vietnam's Mountains

Introduction to Part V

281

(2)

1 Perspectives on defining highland development challenges in Vietnam: New frontier or cul-de-sac?

283

(9)

2 Development trends in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region

292

(50)

3 The development crisis in Vietnam's mountains (coauthored with Neil L. Jamieson and Lê Trong Cúc)

342

(31)

4 Social organization and the management of natural resources: A case study of Tát Hamlet, a Dà Bác Tày ethnic minority settlement in Vietnam's northwestern mountains (coauthored with Trân Dúc Viên)

373

(28)

Notes

401

(24)

References

425

(22)

Maps

447

(6)

Index

453

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