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There are 12 summaries on Vietnam.
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 Vietnam Summary
19,762 words, approx. 66 pages
 Socialist Republic of Vietnam Cong Hoa Chu Nghia Viet Nam CAPITAL: Hanoi FLAG: The flag is red with a five-pointed gold star in the center. ANTHEM: Tien Quan Ça (Forward, Soldiers!). MONETARY UNIT: The dong (D) is a paper currency of 10 hao and... summary from source:
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 Vietnam Summary
3,050 words, approx. 10 pages
American involvement in Vietnam began in the mid-1950s, as the French, defeated on the battlefield by the communist Viet Minh, began to withdraw all military forces out of their former colony. Fearing a vacuum that the communists might soon fill, the... summary from source:
 Vietnam—Profile Summary
1,537 words, approx. 5 pages
(2001 est. pop. 79.9 million). Vietnam occupies the eastern portion of the Indochinese peninsula, bordered on the north by China, on the west by Laos and Cambodia, and on the east by the South China Sea. The area of the country is slightly smaller... summary from source:
Clothing, Traditional—Vietnam Summary
1,302 words, approx. 4 pages
 Most Vietnamese men now wear Western clothing but most Vietnamese women wear the ao dai, a front opening, knee-length, coat-like garment with a stand collar and splits from hem to waist level at each side. The ao dai is tailor-made from plain or... summary from source:
Sino-Vietnamese Culture Summary
1,114 words, approx. 4 pages
The term "Sino-Vietnamese culture" designates the part of Vietnamese culture that has been very heavily influenced by China and that uses classical Chinese as its medium of expression. Because Vietnam was part of the Chinese empire from... summary from source:
Opera—Vietnam Summary
501 words, approx. 2 pages
Called hat tuong in northern Vietnam and hat boi in southern Vietnam, Vietnamese opera is considered the classical operatic theater of Vietnam. Hat boi translates as "song and gesture," emphasizing the prominence of singing and acting in... summary from source:
Hoat, Doan Viet Summary
243 words, approx. 1 pages
(b. 1942), Vietnamese dissident. Since 1971, when he returned to Vietnam following the completion of his doctorate in education from Florida State University, Hoat has been a leading dissident intellectual in Vietnam. Hoat was assistant chancellor of... summary from source:
Ho Tung Mau Summary
240 words, approx. 1 pages
(1896–1951), Vietnamese anticolonial leader. Ho Tung Mau was born in Quynh Doi village in Nghe An Province (in north-central Vietnam) in 1896. The son of a Vietnamese scholar, he obtained a classical education before becoming involved in... summary from source:
Hoang Ngoc Phach Summary
210 words, approx. 1 pages
(d. 1973), Vietnamese writer. Although known as the author who introduced the romantic novel into Vietnamese literature with his work To Tam, Hoang Ngoc Phach's biography reads much more like a bureaucrat's than a writer's. Born... summary from source:
 Vietnam Summary
8,506 words, approx. 28 pages
Vietnam /viËÉtËnÉ'm/, /vjÉtËnÉ'm/ (Vietnamese: Viá»t Nam), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Cá»ng hòa Xã há»i Chủ nghÄ©a Viá»t Nam), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is... 
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