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Manusya, Journal of Humanities
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The Image Of "Opening And Changing" Vietnam In Thai Contemporary Fiction Books, Tran Cam Tu
The Image Of "Opening And Changing" Vietnam In Thai Contemporary Fiction Books, Tran Cam Tu
Manusya, Journal of Humanities
As Thailand and Vietnam have long had mutual relations, there are a number of Thai books written about Vietnam, including academic and historical documents, travel-ogues, novels, and short stories. This paper examines works of contemporary Thai fic-tion to present a new and outstanding image of Vietnam in a Thai perception - an "opening and changing" country - from factual data and from literary textual analysis. First, it provides readers with the socio-historical background of the Renovation Era of Vietnam after 1986 and the Thai-Vietnamese relationship. Next, the main part explains how the image of "opening and changing" Vietnam is portrayed …