Women, Westernization and the origins of modern Vietnamese theatre.

From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: June 1, 2006| Author: Wilcox, Wynn | Copyright information

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, magazines, newspapers and novels burst off the presses in Vietnamese cities at extraordinary rates. (1) As cities expanded and a small but not insignificant urban Vietnamese middle class emerged, city dwellers had to cope with class distinctions and discrimination, new forms of knowledge and population increases. A new Vietnamese middle class rushed to consider, and sometimes embrace, a sea of new fashions, goods, tastes and ideologies that were being...

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