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In this important new study, Charles Keith explores the complex position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history. By demonstrating how French colonial rule allowed for the transformation of Catholic missions in Vietnam into broad and powerful economic and institutional structures, Keith discovers the ways race defined ecclesiastical and cultural prestige and control of resources and institutional authority. This, along with colonial rule itself, created a culture of religious life in which relationships between Vietnamese Catholics and European missionaries were less equal and more fractious than ever before. However, the colonial era also brought unprecedented ties between Vietnam and the transnational institutions and culture of global Catholicism, as Vatican reforms to create an independent national Church helped Vietnamese Catholics to reimagine and redefine their relationships to both missionary Catholicism and to colonial rule itself. Much like the myriad revolutionary ideologies and struggles in the name of the Vietnamese nation, this revolution in Vietnamese Catholic life was ultimately ambiguous, even contradictory: it established the foundations for an independent national Church, but it also polarized the place of the new Church in post-colonial Vietnamese politics and society and produced deep divisions between Vietnamese Catholics themselves.

Lugu 21-aastase Toomas Sven Andreseni kohati morust, kuid seiklusrikkast teekonnast labi Vietnami, kaaslasteks Mari ja endine Vietkongi sodur Dong. Poiss uritab leida Vietnami ja ennast, vana sodur uut elu. Tudrukust pole aga uldse voimalik aru saada.

"Aga mis te seal Vietnamis tegite?” kusitakse uudistavalt. Tundub arusaamatu, kuidas saab lihtsalt koti pakkida ja Vietnamisse soita, pealegi veel vaikelapsega. Mitte too parast, mitte turismireisile, vaid moneks ajaks elama. Vietnam on suureparane koht lihtsalt niisama olemiseks. Kui ma moni aeg tagasi, seljakott seljas, esimest korda Vietnamisse sattusin, ahhetasin kodustele: siin on soe, sook on jumalik ja koik on nii odav! Ererohelised riisipollud, turkiissiniste lahesoppide jarsud lubjakivist kaljunukid, hallikassinised maeahelikud, kultuuride ristumine, veider kommunistlik reziim – romantiline, eksootiline, ponev! Kas sellesse riiki on vaikese lapse ja seljakotiga turvaline ja vastutustundlik randama minna? Ootamatult avastan, et seekord pakub Vietnam tosiseid katsumusi, mis panevad proovile mu senised toekspidamised ja nii monigi kord koigutavad mu maailmaparandamise usku.