Jennifer Way is Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas, USA, specializing in modern and contemporary art, emphasizing social meanings and uses that people make of art, fabrication activities, craft, design and exhibitions. Her current work examines craft objects and fabrication in contexts of war-related coping and healing since the 19th century. She is the author of The Politics of Vietnamese Craft (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor of Craft and War (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Vietnam at home, 1955-19611. State Department and United Nations Foundations for Vietnamese Craft Aid­2. Designer as Diplomat3. Refugee as Artisan: The Image of Vietnamese Craft4. The U.S., North Vietnam and South Vietnam: Competing Narratives of Craft5. From Salvaging to Merchandising: Exhibiting Vietnamese Craft for American Consumers6. 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, USA, specializing in modern and contemporary art, emphasizing social meanings and uses that people make of art, fabrication activities, craft, design and exhibitions. Her current work examines craft objects and fabrication in contexts of war-related coping and healing since the 19th century. She is the author of The Politics of Vietnamese Craft (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor of Craft and War (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Vietnam at home, 1955-19611. State Department and United Nations Foundations for Vietnamese Craft Aid­2. Designer as Diplomat3. Refugee as Artisan: The Image of Vietnamese Craft4. The U.S., North Vietnam and South Vietnam: Competing Narratives of Craft5. From Salvaging to Merchandising: Exhibiting Vietnamese Craft for American Consumers6. 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, USA, specializing in modern and contemporary art, emphasizing social meanings and uses that people make of art, fabrication activities, craft, design and exhibitions. Her current work examines craft objects and fabrication in contexts of war-related coping and healing since the 19th century. She is the author of The Politics of Vietnamese Craft (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor of Craft and War (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Vietnam at home, 1955-19611. State Department and United Nations Foundations for Vietnamese Craft Aid­2. Designer as Diplomat3. Refugee as Artisan: The Image of Vietnamese Craft4. The U.S., North Vietnam and South Vietnam: Competing Narratives of Craft5. From Salvaging to Merchandising: Exhibiting Vietnamese Craft for American Consumers6. 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.