Get Free Shipping on orders over $49
Shadows and Wind : A View of Modern Vietnam - Robert Templer

Shadows and Wind

A View of Modern Vietnam

By: Robert Templer

Paperback | 1 September 1999

At a Glance

Paperback


$58.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $14.69 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 10 business days

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.

More in Asian History

Belonging : A Journey of Love - Sonia Gandhi

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
Breakneck : China's Quest to Engineer the Future - Dan Wang

RRP $28.99

$24.75

15%
OFF
Anti-Zionism : A Jewish History - Benjamin Moser

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
Requiem for Gaza - Chris Hedges

RRP $55.00

$42.75

22%
OFF
The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II - Iris Chang
The Anarchy : The Relentless Rise of the East India Company - William Dalrymple
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - Ilan Pappe
The Making of the Modern Middle East : A Personal History - Jeremy Bowen
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe

RRP $26.99

$21.75

19%
OFF
1291 : The Crusaders' Last Stand - Roger Crowley

RRP $24.95

$21.75

13%
OFF
Jerusalem : The Biography   A History of the Middle East - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Crusader Strategy : Defending the Holy Land - Steve Tibble

RRP $26.95

$22.99

15%
OFF
Wild Swans : Three Daughters Of China - Jung Chang

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF