Chasing the Tigers: A Portrait of the New Vietnam
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1568361394 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 258 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This work presents an in-depth tour of Vietnam's social, political and economic landscape.
A general overview of recent changes in Vietnam. A Customer This book is Hiebert's contribution to the "Is Vietnam the next Asian dragon?" discussion; contents are based on his experiences in Vietnam from 1990-94 as a Far Eastern Econoimc Review bureau chief. While covering a lot of issues, and using interview material to add personal drama, the book does not delve very deeply into any of the economic and political problems plaguing Vietnam. Hiebert instead prefers a rather upbeat spin on the situation, forecasting that although many difficulties lie ahead for the Vietnamese peopl
Photos. 7). Although farmers are producing record harvests, industrial managers and workers resist efforts at privatization, and Hiebert identifies key problems-entrenched unemployment, malnutrition, crumbling transportation infrastructure, declining education and health services, massive smuggling-that the nation will have to address. He traveled extensively in Vietnam between 1990 and 1994, interviewing entrepreneurs, bankers, peasants, novelists, factory workers, and he limns a hardworking, resourceful people with a remarkable capacity to overcome barriers of all kinds. This valuable report supplies a more optimistic assessment than Mitch Epstein's somber photoessay, Vietnam: A Book of Changes (Forecasts, Oct. Hiebert, a reporter for Far Eastern Econo