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Reseña de la obra de: CHI TIEN, Tran, ANH TAI, Do y SNEESBY, Patricia (2007) Bases for Territorial Based Rural Development in Vietnam. Northern Mountainous Area, Hanoi, Agricultural Publishing House, 252 pp.

The geography of vice: spatial dimensions of clandestine sex work -- Venereal disease: policing the sources of infection -- Unfree labor: debt bondage and human trafficking -- Girls for sale: juvenile prostitution -- Đào singers: new ways to police female performance art -- Taxi dancers: Western culture and the urban-rural divide.

John Gerassi went to North Vietnam as a member of the first investigating team for the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. This book, first published in 1968, is the record of that visit and of the author's sympathy for the ordinary people caught up in the conflict. It is primarily intended as a historical document, and provides valuable on-the-spot records of the war as experienced in North Vietnam.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terms and Translations -- Introduction: Late Colonial Vietnam and the Development of the Black Market -- 1. The Geography of Vice -- 2. Venereal Diseases -- 3. Unfree Labor -- 4. Adolescent Sex Work -- 5. Ả Đào Singers -- 6. Taxi Dancers -- Conclusion: Patterns of Clandestine Sex Industries into the Postcolonial Era -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The Doi Moi reforms initiated in Vietnam in 1986 to lead the transition from a centrally-planned to a market-oriented economy have entailed deep institutional transformations. At the national level, achievements have been impressive, the high economic growth in all sectors of the economy have permitted to divide poverty incidence by three in the country since 1993. Mountainous regions and its inhabitants, however, have lagged behind in the process. There, the combination of poverty and the degradation of natural resources remains a pressing issue. Drawing on a conceptual framework that highlig