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Early studies of Vietnam's relationship with the West tended to focus on the country s political and military responses to the aggressions of foreign powers, such as those marking the French colonial period (1862 1954) and the U.S.-Vietnam war. The nine essays in this volume take a different approach. Rather than assuming a clash between Vietnamese and Western civilizations, they examine the ways in which the Vietnamese have reformulated conceptions of the West within their own cultural context. In essays examining Catholicism, medicine, literature, gender relations, labor unions, the...

Early studies of Vietnam's relationship with the West tended to focus on the country s political and military responses to the aggressions of foreign powers, such as those marking the French colonial period (1862 1954) and the U.S.-Vietnam war. The nine essays in this volume take a different approach. Rather than assuming a clash between Vietnamese and Western civilizations, they examine the ways in which the Vietnamese have reformulated conceptions of the West within their own cultural context. In essays examining Catholicism, medicine, literature, gender relations, labor unions, the...