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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /504/ Vietnam's Victory: American War to Globalisation ft. Sean Fear
Description: On resistance and reform in southeast Asia.
Historian Sean Fear talks to Alex H and Lee Jones about Vietnam on the 50-year anniversary since the end of the war.
How is Vietnamese identity wrapped up with the notion of resistance?
Is Chinese influence as great as resistance to China?
How is the ‘American War’ thought about in Vietnam today?
How similar is Vietnam to China: defying Fukuyama’s thesis by retaining a state-socialist political system while adopting capitalism?
Why has Vietnam achieved rapid growth and development while neighb...