Thesis--Freie Universität Berlin. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 562-582).

Thesis--School of Advanced Airpower Studies. / Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 22, 2003). "May 1992." Includes bibliographical references.

This essay details the profound economic and social impact of the Vietnam War on Hong Kong. The British colony provided essential strategic facilities to the U.S. war effort and ranked among the largest destinations for American servicemen on R&R. Between 1965 and 1970, Hong Kong annually hosted about 200,000 U.S. ground and naval personnel on holiday. This influx annually earned Hong Kong about US$300-400 million (in 2009 dollars) and employed thousands of residents working in the colony’s service and entertainment industries. In addition, American servicemen and the local businesses catering to them became a contentious issue in local society. Servicemen excited widespread interest, but their misdeeds and their bar and brothel stomping grounds provoked intense anxiety. Hong Kong residents’ ensuing debates exercised the available civil channels and stimulated the colony’s emerging public sphere, from English- and Chinese-language newspaper battles to outspoken unions and neighborhood associations. In tandem with famed events such as the Star Ferry Riots of 1966 and the communist agitations of 1967, American R&R was an essential ingredient to the emergence of a distinctive Hong Kong identity and citizenry during this period. While residents’ objections failed to curb the GIs’ holidays, Vietnam tourism and its reverberating effects pressed new sectors of Hong Kong residents to grasp and articulate their investment as citizens in the city’s future. Thus, the Vietnam War and its U.S. presence in Hong Kong were major factors in developing Hong Kong’s modern economy, civil society, and contemporary self-conception as a political, legal, and cultural ‘haven.’ / text

The aim of this study is to investigate and analyze the views that the three metropolitan Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet had on the Vietnam issue between 1969 and 1973. The source material consists of clips from Swedish newspapers from press archives at the Department of Government at Uppsala University, which is in the form of microfilm at Umeå University Library. The source material has been studied using quantitative content analysis with qualitative elements.The results shows that there is a difference in the perception of Vietnam issue between, on the one hand, social-democrat Aftonbladet and liberal Dagens Nyheter and conservative Swedish Dagbladet on the other hand, during the whole investigation period. Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter denounced the American war and presence in Vietnam and took a stand for North Vietnam; The United States was regarded as a great power which had goat on a small and poor country. From this perspective, small Nations had the right to independence from the great powers, regardless of social system. The two newspapers regarded the United States as the party to the conflict who did not want to negotiate and instead wanted to continue the war. Svenska Dagbladet regarded the United States instead as the guarantor of freedom and democracy in South-East Asia. The United States would defend South Vietnamese people from Communist North Vietnam, which was regarded as the offending party in the conflict: from this perspective United States deserved thus support. Svenska Dagbladet's view of the conflict was thus marked by the cold war. The newspaper regarded the United States as the party of the conflict who wanted peace and wanted to negotiate, in contrast to North Vietnam.The investigation also shows that Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter supported the Swedish Government, who supported North Vietnam and condemned the American presence in Vietnam; the Government's policy on the other hand, got a harsh criticism from Svenska Dagbladet, that considered that the Government's stance towards the United States would be harmful to the Swedish neutrality policy. Keywords: Vietnam War, Cold War, Swedish press, Social-democratic Party, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, negotiations, Swedish Government, Unites States, Communism

This thesis investigates the role of politically-motivated visual culture relative to the social and cultural transformations taking place at the University of Virginia between 1968-1974, culminating in the “May Days” student strike of 1970. This study seeks to recognize the ways through which these visual materials reflected, as well as influenced student response and identity relative to the contemporary social issues of the time, such as the advancement of Civil Rights, the de-acceleration of the Vietnam War and the military draft, and the arrival of co-education at the University of Virginia. This thesis seeks to expand traditional boundaries of the field of art education and its relevance both within, as well as outside of the educational classroom, and demonstrate the significance of visual culture in relation to social conditions and context. / text

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The poetry written by combat veterans and other witnesses to the Vietnam War is a testament to what they saw and felt in Southeast Asia. Through their poetry they build 'monuments' to their traumatic experience, piecing together memories in order to heal themselves and teach future generations about the horrors of Vietnam. These poems function in much the same way as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., both poem and Memorial requiring the effort of the 'reader' in order to propagate the legacy of the Vietnam War. By bearing witness to the Vietnam experience, the poem and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial facilitate questions; questions through which the reader and the visitor are able to construct their own imaginary monuments to the Vietnam War.

Using a representative sample of the literature, both fiction and nonfiction, written by former American soldiers and correspondents between the years 1969 and 1981, this study analyzes the literary responses of those Americans most intimately involved in the Vietnam wax. Viewed collectively, these commentaries offer insights into the war that take us beyond its surface history and tend to refute the emerging apologist interpretation. Like the current historical analyses, their central concern is the war's morality and its connection to our national self-concept. They approach the issue, however, from the complex perspective of the writer/participant vividly recreating the actual experience on one level; probing, however unconsciously, its complex moral and metaphysical issues on another. Ultimately this literature is a powerful attack not only on the war in Vietnam but also on the American myths of innocence and mission which underlay it.Chapter one defines some of the major component of the cultural myths that shaped the idealized vision of America that these accounts bring into question. It defines the word myth in a cultural and historical context and examines three revealing works on American culture: R. W. B. Lewis' The American Adam, Ernest Lee Tuveson's Redeemer Nation, and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden. In a further attempt to elucidate this cultural mythology, chapter two examines Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.Analyzing content and form, chapters three, four, and five turn to the accounts written by the war's participants and observers. Using selected nonfiction accounts of the war that deal with the reactions of myriad participants and observers--Gloria Emerson's Winners and Losers, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Mark Baker's Nam, and Al Santoli's Everything We Had--chapter three defines and documents this war's wound. Chapter four analyzes two fictional accounts of the war, Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers and Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers, and examines their relationship to the themes and techniques used by classic American writers to probe the underside of the American experience. Chapter five examines Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, which attempt to move beyond the war's disillusionment to a "wise accommodation."

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007. / Title from file title page. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, committee chair; Ted Friedman, Angelo Restivo, committee members. Electronic text (115 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Mar. 28, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-105).