Mark Philip Bradley

Mark Philip Bradley teaches at the University of Chicago. His latest book is The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the 20th Century.

This is the new communism: Modern Vietnam

Mark Philip Bradley, 15 December 2016

Two exhibitions​ that opened within blocks of each other in Chicago this autumn make clear the continuing challenges involved in writing Vietnamese history. One, Hunting Charlie at the Pritzker Military Museum, features a collection of North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front wartime propaganda posters. The posters themselves, seldom seen outside Vietnam, are fascinating. But even...

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