Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger: A History of Vietnam

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Except for the VietnamWar, Vietnam's history remains significantly understudied. In this comprehensive book, Vu Hong Lien and Peter Sharrockchronicle the vast sweep of the region's tumultuous past, from the BronzeAge to the present day. With a scope unrivalled in previous accounts, Descending Dragon, RisingTiger is a definitive history of the Vietnamese people, culture and nation

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This is a richly detailed book . . . Judicious in its views and remarkably comprehensive in its coverage, this is an extremely fine introduction to the history of Vietnam. * Ian Brown, Professor of Economic History of Southeast Asia, SOAS, London *
This ambitious book represents the first attempt to document the history of Vietnam in English from the earliest times to the end of the American-Vietnamese War in the mid-1970s . . . a relatively small country on a world scale [Vietnam] has a long, complex and rather well documented history. * Ian Glover, Emeritus Reader in Southeast Asian Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London *

Author Bio

Vu Hong Lien is a Vietnamese-British historian, and a guest lecturer at SOAS based in London, uk. She is author of Royal Hue, Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam (2015) and co-author of Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger, a History of Vietnam (Reaktion Books, 2014).