Förlagets beskrivning
This volume is the first to document the impact on everyday lived
experience of the key political and economic transformations that have occurred
in Vietnam in recent times. Vietnam is presently undergoing a metamorphosis
from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly
urbanising one with a globalising cultural outlook. These changes have been the
catalyst for an exciting ferment of activity in the domain of popular culture.
Artists, musicians, writers, television producers and film directors have all
benefited from the diversification in patterns of consumption, the slowly
increasing levels of wealth, and the gradual freeing up of state control over
the activities of the populace. The key themes of the volume are the widespread
ambivalence throughout Vietnam about the changes taking place, the need for
external cultural influences to be indigenised in culturally meaningful ways,
and the consistent blurring of the boundaries between the operation of
informal, non-state cultural activities and formal institutional structures in
the evolution of a civil society in Vietnam. The chapters in this volume represent the work of not only well-known
Vietnam scholars from Vietnam and elsewhere, but also some of Vietnam's most
popular cultural producers who are forging new ways of imagining the present
whilst at the same time engaging actively in reinterpreting the past. In
Vietnam, the embrace of popular culture has arisen simultaneously with a
nostalgia for modes of life that are dramatically changing. This important
volume reveals the diverse ways that Vietnam is culturally and socially
negotiating the future. Peter Higgs, The Centre for Harm Reduction, The
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for medical Research and Public Health, Fairfield,
Australia; Associate Professor Cheryl Stock, QUT Creative Industries F The diverse ways that Vietnam is culturally and socially negotiating the
future are examined in this book by scholars engaged in the most up-to-date
social research in Vietnam, as well as some of Vietnam's most popular cultural
producers.
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