Most of the books on Chris’s list relate directly to the war, and most are written from an American or western perspective. Nothing wrong with that, but if you want to read about the impact of the war on Vietnamese society, and how Vietnamese coped with the post-war depression, check out:
1) Le Minh Khue “The Stars, the Earth, the River”
2) Ho Anh Thai “Behind the Red Mist”
3) Robert Olen Butler “A good scent from a strange mountain”
4) Nguyen Huy Thiep “The general retires”
Curbstone Press has done a lot of translation of VNese literature in the U.S.
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a feature story showing German photographer Michael Wolf's collection of “Architecture of Density” which reflects the living condition of ordinary Hong Kong people in high-rises.
Storify user @Jaeminposted a review on the President's Barber, a movie which well depicted how ordinary people's lives suffered under a dictatorial military regime back in the 1970s and 80s in South Korea.
An atheist blogger who works as an English teacher in South Korea, Chris Hallquist wrote about some efforts made to strip evolution out of science textbooks. Based on his experience in South Korea which he defines as ‘a pretty secular country', the blogger commented on the Christian organizations' influence on publishers.
Again, a Chinese man was brutally killed on May 15 by dipper when he tried to stop his home from being razed by the government-employed demolition team in Heilongjiang province. (Ministry of Tofu has translated the news.)
Most of the books on Chris’s list relate directly to the war, and most are written from an American or western perspective. Nothing wrong with that, but if you want to read about the impact of the war on Vietnamese society, and how Vietnamese coped with the post-war depression, check out:
1) Le Minh Khue “The Stars, the Earth, the River”
2) Ho Anh Thai “Behind the Red Mist”
3) Robert Olen Butler “A good scent from a strange mountain”
4) Nguyen Huy Thiep “The general retires”
Curbstone Press has done a lot of translation of VNese literature in the U.S.
Thanks Mark for adding to the list.