{"product_id":"transnationalizing-viet-nam-community-culture-and-politics-in-the-diaspora-9781439906804","title":"Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - South - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVietnamese diasporic relations affect-and are directly affected by-events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding of this globalized community. Valverde draws on 250 interviews and almost two decades of research to show the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back at the homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArguing that Vietnamese immigrant lives are inherently transnational, she shows how their acts form virtual communities via the Internet, organize social movements, exchange music and create art, find political representation, and even dissent. Valverde also exposes how generational, gender, class, and political tensions threaten to divide the ethnic community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Transnationalizing Viet Nam paints a vivid picture of the complex political and personal allegiances that exist within Vietnamese America and shape the relations between this heterogeneous community and its country of origin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh V�\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47575356965015,"sku":"9781439906804","price":2674.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781439906804.webp?v=1774897874","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/transnationalizing-viet-nam-community-culture-and-politics-in-the-diaspora-9781439906804","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}