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Ho Tai reviews Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880 edited by Nola Cooke and Li Tana.

When Le Myre de Vilers arrived in Saigon in mid-1879 as the first civilian to be appointed governor of Cochinchina after nearly two decades of rule by admirals, he carried a letter of instructions in which the Minister of the Navy and Colonies, Admiral Jaureguiberry, outlined his mission: to endow the colony with the institutions of a civilian government and administration.In his instructions, Jaureguiberry noted the desirability of giving the Vietnamese a role in running the affairs of Cochinchina.

1. Property and poverty in southern Vietnam : colonial and postcolonial perspectives / David Biggs -- 2. Bodies in perpetual motion : struggles over the meaning, value, and purpose of fuzzy labor on the eve of collectivization / Ken MacLean -- 3. Social demolition : creative destruction and the production of value in Vietnamese land clearance / Erik Harms -- 4. Legal rights to resources versus forest access in the Vietnamese uplands / To Xuan Phuc -- 5. Constructing civil society on a demolition site in Hanoi / Nguyen Vu Hoang -- 6. The emerging role of property rights in land and housing disputes in Hanoi / John Gillespie -- 7. Property, state corruption, and the judiciary : the Do Son land case and its implications / Mark Sidel -- 8. The commodification of village songs and dances in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Vietnam / Nhung Tuyet Tran -- 9. Appropriating culture : the politics of intangible cultural heritage in Vietnam / Oscar Salemink -- 10. Would a saola by any other name still be a saola? : appropriating rare animals, expropriating minority peoples / C. Michele Thompson.

Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights, and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist state to a society in which a communist party presides over a neoliberal economy. By exploring the complex relationship between property, the state, society, and the market, this book demonstrates how both developmental issues and state-society relations in Vietnam can be explored through the prism of propert.

The girl from the South -- From faithful moon to precious honesty -- Apprentice revolutionaries -- Vignettes from the Revolution -- Prelude to a murder -- The crime on Barbier Street -- The end of the Revolutionary Youth League -- The road to hell -- Down among women -- The verdict -- Life and death