Dragon Ascending : Vietnam and the Vietnamese
by Henry Kamm

Amazon Price: $24.95
Hardcover (February 1996)
Arcade Publishing; ISBN: 1559703067 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 9.57 x 6.43

From Booklist
Americans routinely refer to the country's experience fighting the war in Vietnam simply as "Vietnam," and New York Times correspondent Kamm's sobering look at Vietnam's people today is highly instructive in pointing out the differences and the similarities between the two cultures of then and now. Kamm's first stop is My Lai, where the worst massacre of civilians by GIs took place, and despite constant reminders of the killings, the native Vietnamese are philosophical, almost forgiving. From there it's on to Saigon and Hanoi, where Kamm deftly contrasts the burgeoning capitalism and the communism that's hanging on. Kamm speaks with Vietnamese people in the cities and in the tiny hamlets, where the locals live in poverty as their ancestors did centuries ago, oblivious to the benefits of the Communist revolution. The author's take on U.S. involvement and lack of cultural awareness of the Vietnamese people is hard to argue, whatever your view on the war, and Kamm's prose is flavored with exactly the right amounts of straightforward journalism and passion. Joe Collins

Ingram
A firsthand report on contemporary Vietnam presents a portrait of a nation that is struggling under the hold of Communism and places the Vietnam war in the perspective of a four-thousand-year-old history. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

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Business Opportunities in Vietnam (Nanyang Business Report Series)
by Teck Meng Tan (Editor)

Amazon Price: $29.95
Paperback (September 1997)
Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN: 0137543344 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.03 x 9.02 x 6.04

Book Description
Vietnam is forging new regional and global relationships via an open market strategy which is irreversibly transforming its economic, social and political architecture. In Business Opportunities in Vietnam, the seventh volume in the Nanyang Business Report Series, the editors offer a comprehensive and penetrating profile of the political economy during a critical shift in policy.

The book is detailed, but practical, in addressing macro policy and reform issues, financing and trade regulations, the legal environment and tax incentives, and technology transfer as well as the service sectors dealing with banking, education and tourism. Research findings on business attitudes and behavioural issues pertinent to success along with the experiences of Singapore firms in Vietnam are also presented.

Linked to China, the Greater Mekong Sub-region and a new ASEAN partnership, Vietnam is an unfolding economic force in Southeast Asia and a potential entrant in the world market, supported by its rich cultural heritage and comparative economic advantage. Business Opportunities in Vietnam is an essential reference for international businessmen, foreign investors, merchant traders, researchers and students.

From the Back Cover
This volume contains business reports originating from the Nanyang Business School's Business Study Mission to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in March of 1996. In this volume, the editors offer a comprehensive and penetrating profile of the political economy of Vietnam during a critical shift in policy. The chapters proceed from macro issues to functional areas of law, tax, trade regulations and accounting, to specific economic sectors and special issues.

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Prospects in Trade, Investment and Business in Vietnam and East Asia
by Van Hoa Tran (Editor), Pham Ngoc San, Tran Van Hoa

Amazon Price: $69.95
Hardcover - 272 pages (May 2000)
Palgrave; ISBN: 031222656X ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x 8.83 x 5.70

Book Description
In order to do business successfully with Vietnam and other Asian countries, a deep understanding of the trends, problems, and developments currently arising there is important. This book provides this valuable analysis for the first time in one concise presentation. Thoroughly researched by experts in the areas, the book makes a significant and timely contribution about a major region with growing importance and impact in the world.

About the Author
Tran Van Hoa is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

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Vietnam : Dawn of a New Market
by Geoffrey Murray

Amazon Price: $65.00
Hardcover - 272 pages (July 1997)
Palgrave; ISBN: 0312173903 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 9.02 x 5.66

Card catalog description
"This book is the third in a series by Geoffrey Murray on some of the key emerging economies of Pacific Asia (he has also treated China and Singapore) and is intended to be used both as a practical handbook in business planning and strategy, and as a socio-economic overview of the new Vietnam that will interest a wide audience."--BOOK JACKET. "The pace of change in the post-war era, especially the last ten years, is widely viewed by Western observers as an astonishing achievement, and could continue well into the millennium - given the various reservations the author addresses during the course of this study. Hence the detailed evaluation of the so-called 'recovery' since the Vietnam War (in industrial, economic, political and social terms), in order to better judge the prospects of long-term economic growth and the viability of identified opportunities for international investment."--BOOK JACKET. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The author, Geoffrey Murray mgm@public,bta.net.cn , July 30, 1998
Response to the suggestion the work is dated
I would like to respond to a review of the book. It is true that I did some research in Singapore and Thailand in 1995, and also spent much time trawling through published reference material. But the bulk of the book stems from my visit to Vietnam in April-May 1996, as indicated in various footnotes for the interviews quoted and much of the research data. My UK publisher had the ms in hand by late June of that year, but at the request of his US co-publisher St Martin's Press, sat on the work...

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Doing Business in Vietnam
by James W. Robinson

Amazon Price: $24.95
Hardcover - 288 pages (November 1994)
Prima Publishing; ISBN: 1559585919 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.08 x 8.83 x 5.87

Book Description
This step-by-step guide has become an essential tool for anyone considering a move into this booming market.

Ingram
This SmartLabs interactive tutorial will teach users how to configure and use the Microsoft Internet Information Server to manage Internet Web sites. It will also use SmartLabs' patented technology to teach users how to create Web pages using Microsoft FrontPage, their version of HTML. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Ho Chi Minh
by William J. Duiker

List Price: $35.00
Amazon Price: $24.50
Hardcover - 704 pages (September 27, 2000)
Hyperion; ISBN: 0786863870 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.95 x 9.58 x 6.66

Amazon.com
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) fought for half a century to free Vietnam from foreign domination, and the story of his life illuminates the ongoing struggle between colonialism and nationalism that still shapes world history. William J. Duiker, who served in Saigon's U.S. embassy during the Vietnam War, spent 30 years delving into Vietnamese and European archives, as well as interviewing Minh's surviving colleagues, in order to write this definitive biography. The son of a civil servant from a traditionally rebellious province, the future president of North Vietnam was known for more than 20 years as Nguyen That Thanh. It was under this name that he founded the Vietnamese Communist Party, having concluded after reading Lenin's analysis of imperialism that revolutionary Marxism was the most effective tool to achieve Vietnam's independence. He spent 30 years in exile, cementing his communist ties in Moscow and working with Vietnamese rebels from a base in China, before assuming the name Ho Chi Minh in 1942, when the forces unleashed by World War II seemed to be clearing the way for Vietnamese liberation. French intransigence and American anti-communism would delay the emergence of an independent, united Vietnam for another 30 years, but Ho became an icon who inspired the communist North and the Southern Vietcong to keep fighting. Focusing almost exclusively on political events and ideological debates, Duiker depicts Ho as a nationalist first and foremost, but also as a convinced (though pragmatic) Marxist who believed socialism would help his country modernize and correct ancient inequities. This long, very detailed biography is not for the casual reader, but anyone with a serious interest in modern history will relish a dense narrative that fully conveys the complexities of the man and the issues with which he grappled. --Wendy Smith

The New York Times Book Review, October 15, 2000
"...magnificent...has managed...to fill in the missing pieces of Ho's life..."

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Executive Report on Strategies in Vietnam, 2000 edition (Strategic Planning Series)
by The Vietnam Research Group

Amazon Price: $1,340.00
Ring-bound - 134 pages 2000 edition (November 2, 2000)
Icon Group International, Inc.; ISBN: 0741824183

Book Description
Vietnam has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners. This report puts these executives on the fast track. Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given.

From the Publisher
Our publications provide timely and reliable market information as a complement to strategic planning processes. For a price well below the cost of a round-trip business-class ticket, the executive has access to the basic factors driving strategic planning. As such, our reports are a 'one-stop' shop by giving coverage on economic and political issues, as well as analyzing human resources, entry strategies and legal risks. With offices in Europe, Africa and the United States, Icon Group...

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Understanding Vietnam
by Neil L. Jamieson

Amazon Price: $22.00
Paperback Reprint edition (March 1995)
Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520201574 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.13 x 8.92 x 5.98

Leonard Bushkoff, Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly
"Quite simply the most insightful interpretation of Vietnam ever to appear anywhere. No other book touches such vital issues; no other book explains so much; no other book is as important."

Herbert Mitgang, New York Times
"Discloses what the American military and political leadership largely misunderstood: the nature of Vietnamese society, the confrontation with colonialism and Western values, the resistance of the intellectuals, and the culture of the people."

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Economie du Vietnam : réforme, ouverture et développement
de Marie Lavigne
Prix éditeur : 119,96 FF  /  EUR 18,28
Notre prix :  113,94 FF  /  EUR 17,37
Economisez :  5,97 FF  /  EUR 0,91  (5%)

Broché - 191 pages (2000)
L'Harmattan (Pays de l'Est) ; ISBN : 2738483380

Chroniques et points de vue
L'Expansion
Vietnam, bilan de santé
Les Français ont gardé un attachement et un grand intérêt pour le Vietnam. Dans ce livre, Marie Lavigne, spécialiste reconnue des pays d'Asie, dresse un tableau synthétique de l'évolution du pays depuis dix ans. Le Vietnam s'est ouvert à l'économie mondiale, a modernisé son système financier, mais connaît des difficultés depuis trois ans, en raison de l'enlisement des réformes et des résistances politiques qui empêchent la transformation du secteur d'Etat.

Quatrième de couverture
L'évolution de l'économie vietnamienne depuis 1989 peut s'analyser autour de trois concepts : transition, stratégie asiatique de croissance, ouverture internationale. La transition au Vietnam associe le maintien d'un régime communiste à l'application de méthodes de marché, qui ont spectaculairement amélioré la performance économique dans un premier temps. La détérioration depuis 1997 des résultats doit être attribuée moins à l'impact de la crise financière asiatique qu'à l'inachèvement de la réforme et aux résistances politiques empêchant la transformation du secteur d'Etat. Stratégies asiatiques : comme les pays de la région, le Vietnam a fondé le développement industriel sur une agriculture en croissance, il a utilisé des politiques (industrielle et régionale) dirigistes. Il a modernisé son système bancaire et financier. Mais il n'a pu s'affranchir des menaces qui pèsent aujourd'hui sur le " mode asiatique de développement ". Ouverture : le Vietnam, pays longtemps fermé en raison de la guerre et de l'autarcie propre au système socialiste, s'est ouvert à l'économie mondiale. Mais le recours aux financements extérieurs (soutien d'organisations internationales, investissements étrangers) est devenu plus critique, en raison de la crise mais aussi des réticences causées par l'enlisement de la réforme. Le Vietnam parviendra-t-il à dépasser les rigidités de son système ? Le changement du régime politique communiste tel qu'il fonctionne concrètement apparaît de plus en plus comme le préalable à toute progression économique.