Jennifer Way is Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas, Dallas Forth Worth, USA.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Vietnam at home, 1955-1961Chapter 1, State Department and United Nations Foundations for Vietnamese Craft Aid­Chapter 2, Designer as DiplomatChapter 3, Refugee as Artisan: The Image of Vietnamese CraftChapter 4, The U.S., North Vietnam, and South Vietnam: Competing Narratives of CraftChapter 5, From Salvaging to Merchandising: Exhibiting Vietnamese Craft for American ConsumersChapter 6, Artifact, Art, Craft: Displaying and Collecting Different VietnamsConclusionBibliographyNotes

Jennifer Way's The Politics of Vietnamese Craft is an exceptional book ... a necessary extension to studies of Cold War American cultural diplomacy and histories of design and craft ... It could be used as a basis to question the very foundations of the networks that define contemporary Southeast Asian art today.

Jennifer Way is Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas, Dallas Forth Worth, USA.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Vietnam at home, 1955-1961Chapter 1, State Department and United Nations Foundations for Vietnamese Craft Aid­Chapter 2, Designer as DiplomatChapter 3, Refugee as Artisan: The Image of Vietnamese CraftChapter 4, The U.S., North Vietnam, and South Vietnam: Competing Narratives of CraftChapter 5, From Salvaging to Merchandising: Exhibiting Vietnamese Craft for American ConsumersChapter 6, Artifact, Art, Craft: Displaying and Collecting Different VietnamsConclusionBibliographyNotes

Jennifer Way's The Politics of Vietnamese Craft is an exceptional book ... a necessary extension to studies of Cold War American cultural diplomacy and histories of design and craft ... It could be used as a basis to question the very foundations of the networks that define contemporary Southeast Asian art today.

Jennifer Way is Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas, Dallas Forth Worth, USA.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Vietnam at home, 1955-1961Chapter 1, State Department and United Nations Foundations for Vietnamese Craft Aid­Chapter 2, Designer as DiplomatChapter 3, Refugee as Artisan: The Image of Vietnamese CraftChapter 4, The U.S., North Vietnam, and South Vietnam: Competing Narratives of CraftChapter 5, From Salvaging to Merchandising: Exhibiting Vietnamese Craft for American ConsumersChapter 6, Artifact, Art, Craft: Displaying and Collecting Different VietnamsConclusionBibliographyNotes

Jennifer Way's The Politics of Vietnamese Craft is an exceptional book ... a necessary extension to studies of Cold War American cultural diplomacy and histories of design and craft ... It could be used as a basis to question the very foundations of the networks that define contemporary Southeast Asian art today.