Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam

by Danièle Bélanger and Magali Barbieri

Book Overview

Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past - the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "renovation". Two decades have passed since the wide-ranging institutional transformations that took place reconfigured the ways families produce and reproduce. The downsizing of the socialist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804760586
• ISBN13: 9780804760584
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"