Postcolonial Vietnam

"This wonderful and truly outstanding book presents little-known archival material in a most compelling fashion. Patricia M. Pelley has written an elegant and lucid book that will generate much scholarly discussion in the years to come, and in a number of disciplines. It will become mandatory reading for all those interested in Vietnam and Southeast Asian history. "--Panivong Norindr, author of "Phantasmatic Indochina: French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film and Literature"