Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam

Templer, Robert

ISBN 10: 0140285970 / ISBN 13: 9780140285970

Published by Penguin Group USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1999

About this Item

As new paperback purchased from an individual. No marks no creases. Full printline indicates 1st printing this edition. Robert Templer paints a fascinating and fresh picture of a country usually viewed with hazy nostalgia or deep suspicion. Examines the problems facing modern Vietnam, a country emerging from its troubled past into a new world marked by conspicuous consumption and a lifestyle of leisure. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Vietnam that now has emerged from a century of conflict with both foreign powers and with itself. Copyright 1998. 1st published in Great Britain by Little, Brown & Co. No LCCN or other catalog printed. Full printline indicates this copy from 1st printrun, this paperback edition. MSR=$13.95.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140285970
• ISBN 13: 9780140285970
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Thus
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 14 ounces

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Synopsis

In Shadows and Wind, Robert Templer paints a fascinating and fresh picture of a country usually viewed with hazy nostalgia or deep suspicion. Here is Hanoi, an increasingly tense and troubled city approaching its millennium but uncertain of its direction. Here are people emerging from a long wilderness of malnutrition, discovering a new lifestyle of leisure and luxury. And everywhere are the anomalies that burst the bubble of optimism: a vastly expensive luxury hotel sitting empty in an unknown town six hours from an international airport; museums crammed with fake exhibits. And there remains the one-party Communist state, still wrapped in secrecy and corruption, and making for an uneasy bedfellow with the rapacious capitalism it now encourages.Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Vietnam and years of research, Robert Templer has produced the first in-depth examination of the problems facing modern Vietnam. Shadows and Wind is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Vietnam that now has emerged from a century of conflict with both foreign powers and with itself.

About the Author

After graduating from Cambridge University Robert Templer worked in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Afghanistan. A regular contributor to the Guardian and Sunday Telegraph (London), he is a recipient of the prestigious Soros Fellowship and now teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.