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"The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam is a comprehensive resource exploring social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of Vietnam, one of contemporary Asia's most dynamic but least understood countries. Following an introduction that highlights major changes that have unfolded in Vietnam over the past three decades, the volume is organised into four thematic parts: Politics -- Economy -- Social life and institutions -- Cultures in motion. Part one address key aspects of Vietnam's politics, from the role of the Communist Party of Vietnam in shaping the country's institutional evolution to continuity and change in patterns of socio-political organisation, political expression, state repression, diplomatic relations, and human rights. Part two assesses the transformation of Vietnam's economy, addressing patterns of economic growth, investment and trade, the role of the state in the economy, and other economic aspects of social life. Parts three and four examine developments across a variety of social and cultural fields, through chapters on themes including welfare, inequality, social policy, urbanization, the environment and society, gender, ethnicity, the family, cuisine, art, mass media, and the politics of remembrance. Featuring 38 essays by leading Vietnam scholars from around the world, this book provides a cutting-edge analysis of Vietnam's transformation and changing engagement with the world. It is an invaluable interdisciplinary reference work of interest to students and academics of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as policymakers, analysts and anyone wishing to learn more about contemporary Vietnam"--

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization -- Chapter 1 Great Transformations -- Introduction -- Marketization -- Comparative Political Economy -- Policy and Theoretical Literature on Welfare, Inequality, and Inclusive Growth -- Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing Social Orders -- Historical Waves of Marketization -- Waves, Cycles, and Empires -- From Development Project to Political Project -- Late 20th and Early 21st Century Marketization -- Marketization Begets Populism and Fascism, Again -- Marketizing East Asia -- Demographic and Socioeconomic Diversity -- Welfare and Human Development -- Inequality -- Social Historical and Institutional Attributes -- Theatres of Marketization -- Contents, Layout, and Claims -- Synoptic Overview of the Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2 Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization -- Welfare, Inequality, and Markets Defined -- Welfare -- Inequality -- Social Stratification and Social Mobility -- Markets and Marketization -- Rival Perspectives on Markets and Welfare and Inequality -- Neoclassical Political Economy -- Critical Political Economy -- Statist Political Economy -- Adjudicating Quasi-Religious Claims -- Divergent Accounts of Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization -- The Historical Progression of Marketization: Consensus to a Point -- Perspectives on Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization -- Governance -- An Embedded Markets Approach -- References -- Chapter 3 Welfare, Growth, and Governance -- Paths to Marketization -- Markets and Temporalities of Incorporation -- The Moving Map of Marketization -- Responses to Marketization: A Preliminary Overview -- Growth and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia -- Income Growth and Poverty Reduction -- Inequality -- The Political Economy of East Asian Growth

Vietnam has arrived at a momentous juncture in its social and political development. It is a country ripe with potential, but it creaks under the weight of an almost feudalistic political system.

The collapse of Viet Nam's state-socialist economic institutions in the late 1980s occasioned an almost complete inversion of the socialist principles that had guided health policy under the Communist Party of Viet Nam since the 1950s. Since the early 1990s, however, the Vietnamese state has reasserted its roles in the health sector. These reassertions have been of two major types. Through redistributive reassertions the state has sought to ensure a basic floor of health services for all Vietnamese and bolster its subjective legitimacy, even as public spending on health has remained conspicuously low. Through its accumulative reassertions, the state has transformed 'public' health facilities into sites of economic accumulation, thereby responding to the state's weak extractive capacities and gaining political support from within the public health systems. Overall, the article likens reassertions of the state in Viet Nam's health sector represent a contemporary instance of a Polanyian "double movement," albeit within the context of a market-Leninist regime.