Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; The Vietnamese Identity; The Four Facets of Vietnamese Culture; Việt Nam's Confucian Heritage; Buddhism in Việt Nam; Exemplary Vietnamese; Vietnamese Literature: An Expression of the Nation's Spirit; Vietnamese Landscape and the Vietnamese Spirit; Vietnamese Women and Change; Đổi Mới (Renovation or Renewal) and Globalization; Appendices; Vietnamese; A Chronology of Vietnamese History; Henri Oger's Mechanics and Craftsof the Vietnamese People (1909):Sketches of Hanoians' Vibrant Life; Oger Drawings; Index
Summary
An accessible and erudite primer on Vietnamese history and culture from one of Việt Nam's finest minds