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As a specialist of Southeast Asian History, I am often asked to introduce a book that would relate the history of Vietnam, from its beginnings to the present. As often, I am embarrassed to answer that there is no such book written in English. In effect, although we have many publications that deal competently with particular periods or systematically with different topics of its past, a comprehensive history of Vietnam is still lacking. That is the reason I am happy and humbled to introduce here A Story of Vietnam.
A Story of Vietnam treats evenly all the periods and also gives equal importance to the culture and the arts as to the political or military events of Vietnam's past. I call it a story and not a history, because I do not want my book to be the usual conventional textbook, overburdened with interminable academic, historical and bibliographic references.
While not a conventional textbook, A Story of Vietnam can, nonetheless, provide a substantial reading material to students interested in Asia. To the hyphenated Vietnamese, it can serve as a convenient reference tool to the historical allusions, cultural insinuations, mythical hints, literary suggestions, ethnic idiosyncrasies they encounter every day at home. This book may also be sought after by the people who know so much already about Vietnam as a War but who still would like to know more about Vietnam as a culture.
I have narrated my story with the greatest impartiality I am capable of. I have no theory that needs to be proven nor do I have any assumption to be verified. But I do come to history with emotion, even with passion. Sometimes, my sympathies surged to the surface or my distastes became apparent, though at no time, have I consciously distorted the facts or altered the documents in order to validate my feelings.
The ten chapters of this book are naturally of unequal length. They adhere strictly to the chronological order, meaning that Chapter One deals, among others, with the legendary origins of the Vietnamese people and the last chapter, Chapter Ten, recounts the social traumas, the economic hardships, and the political isolation the country experienced after reunification in 1975 to the remarkable recovery effected since 1986 and culminating in October of 2007 when Vietnam was elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations.
Truong Buu Lam is a retired professor of History from the University of Hawaii.
- Sales Rank: #252278 in Books
- Published on: 2010-02-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .87" w x 5.98" l, 1.24 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 392 pages
From the Publisher
Thank you for submitting your work to Outskirts Press for evaluation.I am pleased to report that your work A Story of Viêt nam has been accepted for publication.
You certainly have an interesting narrative here. I really enjoyed your approach and outlook... You do a nice job of sharing your research and ideas. Your narrative voice is very familiar and friendly. You have a way with words and your writing has an excellent flow to it. Your book is nicely put together and filled with information I am sure many people will find interesting and thought provoking. It is obvious that you have done your homework and put much work and preparation (and research) into your work. You have a certain fervor for your subject matter because you really speak to your audience. I am certain your word will be well received by a wide audience. Your book is well written.
From the Author
As I wrote this book, I always kept in mind the generations of hyphenated Vietnamese who have had no opportunity to learn much about the land of their ancestors in schools of their new country. I wanted to narrate to them the story of Vietnam from the beginning to the present. I also meant to relate the political events of Vietnam's past to its cultural features so that my readers can experience Vietnamese society in its wholeness.
I also wish this work will find its way to the people who know already so much about Vietnam as a war but who would still like to read something about Vietnam as a people, a country, a culture.
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It has now become an incontestable fact that the USA has failed to attain the twin goal it had assigned to itself in Vietnam. Besides the failure to realize its objectives, did the US suffer a military defeat in Vietnam?
There are more and more people who would answer no to that question, arguing that the USA did not go into that war with the will to win. It is quite difficult for me to understand such an argument, for does it not represent a very serious indictment of the American establishment? How could any government order its troops to shoot and kill hundreds of thousands of persons, rain more than four million tons of explosives and seventy two million liters of chemicals all over the territory of another country that is thousands of miles away from the US and to a people that has never done any harm to the United States?
Other scholars blame the US government for having bound the hands of its strategists by making the decision to fight only a limited war. Can the Vietnam War be seriously called a "limited war" when, at its peak, more than half a million of American armed persons had to be ferried half way around the globe to a country that is about the size of California? One might ask what would the generals have done had their hands not been tied down? Would they have used tactical nuclear bombs? Would they have bombed Vietnam back to the Stone Age? Would they have created a desert out of Vietnam and call it an American Victory or put on that desert the label Pax Americana?
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
A Story of Viet Nam
By Phuoc Tan Le
Even though I am over 60 and had lived 30+ years in Viet Nam, I found myself learning as I read A Story of Viet Nam. The author, Professor Truong Buu Lam, meticulously and comprehensively narrated the history, culture and people of Viet Nam. The book is worth reading, especially for those with a curiosity to explore Viet Nam.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
In response to the 1 star comments of CrtclRdr
By Lanchi Vo
I don't usually review books (or anything else for that matter), but I read "A Story of Vietnam" and then saw the negative review of CrtclRdr. I can not help but have to put in my 2-cents:
As a Vietnamese-American, growing up during the war, I read this book and think that it is extremely well done. Please note that the book's title is "A Story of Vietnam" not "A History of Vietnam" (I suffered through History classes with all these endless names and dates, so I would never have been interested in this book if it were supposed to be a fact-laden tome of history!). The author is not trying to produce a documentary but a readable "STORY" about Vietnam, so "proper citation and alternative point of views" is really not the point here. He has done an excellent job at weaving together the cultural, historical, literature, artistic, social and political background to tell the story of Vietnam in the most neutral way possible, taking in the point of views from many sides.
As a person telling a story, Dr Truong is entitled to come up with interpretations of his own, which I think is very refreshing and interesting. However, no where in the book I found "deliberate distortion of historical and archaeological finding", or "misinterpretation of historical and cultural references". Don't get me wrong, I am not an expert on these subjects so I am not really qualified to labeled anything as "biased" or, "misinterpreted", or "misrepresentation" or "distorted", or otherwise. I am just a Vietnamese who have lived almost half of my life in Vietnam, with first-hand experience of the Vietnamese culture. I know the history of Vietnam as it was being told and re-told from both sides. From that background, I found the book very informative as well as enjoyable, and did learn a lot about the factual happenings that took place during the war.
As a trained scientist, I also know that cultural and archaeological findings are open to interpretations. Scientific data may substantiated or refute an interpretation, but "interpretation" is not considered an exact science. So, "in the context of historical and cultural information", a "proper citation" is just a reference to another person's interpretation without the guarantee that it's the truth. An interpretation is just that, not a proven fact. You can agree or disagree, but you can not say that it is correct or incorrect. As an archeological researcher and a professor of History, I think Dr. Truong is well qualified to have his own interpretation. I have an impression that CrtclRdr is a well known expert on the history and culture of Viet Nam, who knows more than enough about the subject to challenge the credibility of the author, but "CrtclRdr" must not be his/her real name, otherwise, I could have recognized it...
I gave this book 4 stars because I agree with another reviewer about the production quality. The typos and miss-prints distracts. I really don't know why this reader is so unhappy with the book, but my 2-cent is: DO "waste" your money, buy this book, read it, and find out for yourself...
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Insightful book from a Vietnamese scholar perspective
By David SF
Being a Vietnamese-American growing up in the US, I wanted to know Vietnamese history that spans over the history of the nation rather than just focusing on the history around the Vietnam war. I was happy that this book accomplished that goal. I like the peppering of legends and folk tales in between historical accounts. Having heard some of the stories and bits of history from my parents, this book puts things in perspective. I like the fact that the author acknowledge that it's a "story of Vietnam" rather than the history of Vietnam. He made it clear where the source of the various of the accounts come from so we can judge its accuracy ourselves. Dr. Truong was balanced in providing viewpoints from the local Vietnamese, the Chinese, and the French. After reading the book, I bought several copies as gifts to my siblings and friends. They, too, enjoyed the read. Although some finds the interjection of folk tales and legends in between historical accounts to be distracting and confusing. Overall, I highly recommend this book to people who wants to know a more in depth story of Vietnam from a non-western perspective.
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