Shadows and Wind <subTitle>A View of Modern Vietnam</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Templer, Robert</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">8:3</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Penguin Books</publisher> <dateIssued>1999</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>384tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustration</extent> <extent>20 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>For many people, Vietnam remains a war not a country. This text explores the country behind the myths and images, looking at Vietnam's literature, history, art and architecture, politics, religion and food. The author shows the emerging popular culture and the Vietnamese at home and overseas...This book explains what life was like for the older folks, the corrosive effects of corruption, communism and abusive state control, and many complex layers of Vietnamese history and culture.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Robert Templer</note> <subject> <topic>Vietnam -- History -- 20th century</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">959.704</classification> <classification authority="ddc">T284-R64</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780140285970</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/16635/14a.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/16635/14a.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2025-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071624.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>