Table of Contents

Preface -- Ethnicity, Geography, and Early History -- A Millennium of Freedom -- The French Conquest of Vietnam -- The Nationalist Movement -- Roots of the Second Indochina War -- The Indochina Imbroglio -- The New Vietnam -- Vietnam and Its Immediate Neighbors -- Vietnam's Relations with China, the Soviet Union, and ASEAN -- US–Vietnam Relations and Vietnamese Americans -- Chronology

About the Author

D.R. SarDesai was Chairperson of South and Southeast Asian Studies and the first holder of the Doshi Chair in Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Southeast Asia: Past and Present (Westview Press, 2003).