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| | Priscilla Koh -- Persistent Ambiguities: Vietnamese Ethnology in the Doi Moi Period (1986 -2001) |
 | | Doi moi, which means renewal or renovation, refers to the economic reforms officially launched in 1986, during the Sixth National Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party. |
 | | Under doi moi, the theme of the minority peoples' long tradition of resistance and defence of the country is reiterated and replicated over a much wider variety of media and forms; such as in the newspapers, television programmes, films, museums, official/political speeches, and so on. |
 | | This article is interesting not only because it is indicative of the doi moi tendency to "rehabilitate" some formerly undesirable aspects of culture, but also because it highlights the flexible and fluid, not to mention arbitrary, nature of the labelling and categorising process. |
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