Asian voices in a postcolonial age; Vietnam, India and beyond.9780521688949 Asian voices in a postcolonial post·co·lo·ni·al adj. Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics. age; Vietnam Vietnam (vēĕt`näm), officially Socialist Republic of Vietnam, republic (v), 128,400 sq mi (332,642 sq km), Southeast Asia. Occupying the eastern coastline of the Southeast Asian peninsula, Vietnam is bounded by China on the north, by Laos , India and beyond. Bayly, Susan. Cambridge U. Pr. 2007 281 pages $34.99 Paperback HT690 With her central focus on the lives of Vietnamese scientists, academics, and other educated "moderns" of Hanoi, Bayly (historical anthropology anthropology, classification and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human social relations has been the distinctive concept of culture. , Cambridge U., UK) offers a comparative look at the contrasting intelligentsia in·tel·li·gent·si·a n. The intellectual elite of a society. [Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intelligentia, intelligence, from intellig worlds of Vietnam and India. She explores her subjects' personal lives and family narratives in order to understand how the personal, the intimate, and the emotional are impacted by the legacy of colonial and socialist systems. A major theme of the work is the role of mobility in the life trajectories of the intelligentsia. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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