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B. J. Tria Kerkvliet, "Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Since 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam's political landscape. Over the last three decades, such criticism has become widespread around four main clusters of issues: factory workers demanding better wages and living standards; villagers demonstrating and petitioning against corruption and land confiscations; citizens opposing China's encroachment into Vietnam and criticizing China-Vietnam relations; and dissidents objecting to the party-state regime and pressing for democratisation. In this episode of New Books in Southeast Asian Studies…
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