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Sources of Vietnamese Tradition
Av Jayne Werner, John K. Whitmore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1760 kr
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Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the society and state of Vietnam. Strategic selections illuminate key figures, issues, and events while building a thematic portrait of the country's developing …
Sources of Vietnamese Tradition
Av Jayne Werner, John K. Whitmore m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
445 kr
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Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the society and state of Vietnam. Strategic selections illuminate key figures, issues, and events while building a thematic portrait of the country's developing …
Boat People and Achievement in America
A Study of Family Life, Hard Work, and Cultural Values
Av Nathan Caplan, John K. Whitmore m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
444 kr
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During the late 1970s hundreds of thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos began their flight out of their homelands. Most left by sea. In emigrating to the United States, these Boat People faced extraordinary cultural, material, and psychological obstacles. In the face of these …
Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts
Av K. W. Taylor, John K. Whitmore
Häftad, 1995
430 kr
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Essays that demonstrate ways to "read" the pasts of Vietnam through detailed analyses of its art, chronicles, legends, documents, and monuments. The book's many voices undermine the idea of a single Vietnamese past. All the essays, while varied, are connected by their common concerns with language …
Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History
The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft
Av Kenneth Hall, John K. Whitmore
Häftad, 1976
271 kr
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While following the probes of foreign individuals into various obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon the historical patterns that have developed …
Children of the Boat People
A Study of Educational Success
Av Nathan Caplan, Marcella H. Choy m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
373 kr
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A study of the educational success of children from Southeast Asian refugee families in the United States. This study is probing and eminently readable. Analysis is united with the personal experiences of the refugees, who speak movingly for themselves. The book is valuable on several levels--as a …
China's Encounters on the South and Southwest
Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia
Av James A. Anderson, John K. Whitmore
Inbunden, 2014
2593 kr
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China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia discusses the mountainous territory between lowland China and Southeast Asia, what we term the Dong world, and varied encounters by China with this world's many elements. The essays describe such …
