{"product_id":"memorial-park-revisiting-vietnam","title":"Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFifty years after the Fall of Saigon and twenty years after her family’s emigration to America, Minh Nguyen returns to her native Vietnam to find out what’s left of the old revolutionary project. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMemorial Park\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a collection of essays pairing travelogue and criticism, Nguyen encounters relics of proletarian romance and vestiges of authoritarian control amid an evermore corporatized society. Along the way, she considers how contemporary artspeak confuses state censors, the rise of luxury “Smart Cities” as they supplant socialist housing complexes, and the enduring appeal of propaganda signs that once promised utopia. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDriven by a diasporic curiosity that seeks discovery over dwelling on loss, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMemorial Park\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e avoids nostalgic idealism or reflexive condemnation. Instead, Nguyen takes seriously the legacy of Vietnamese liberation by naming what it has become—and what it has not. What emerges is a complex picture of the country today and a reflection on how we inherit and reckon with radical histories that shape our world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Limestone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56785454137724,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/limestonebooks.org\/products\/memorial-park-revisiting-vietnam","provider":"Limestone Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}