PRESS RELEASE VÒNG ĐAI XANH – THE GREEN BELT

PRESS RELEASE
VÒNG ĐAI XANH – THE GREEN BELT
A Novel, Bilingual Edition

I read The Green Belt with great interest. It brought me back memories of the Central Highlands in the 1960s and the events surrounding the Buddhist and the student unrest during that period. It’s clear that Ngo The Vinh learned a great deal about the highland people and their plight during the war and post-war world. What news I now get from the highlands is very sad. The Montagnards are facing a worse threat to their way of life than at any time previously. The Americans (like the French) used the Montagnards and coldly abandoned them. All one can do is to keep trying to bring it to the attention of American leaders in Washington. Still one hopes against hope. 

Dr. Gerald C. Hickey, author of Free in the Forest,  Ethnohistory of the Vietnamese Central Highlands,1954-1976

“I am impressed with the knowledge, foresight and sympathy that Ngo The Vinh displays in ‘The Green Belt’ which he wrote more than thirty years ago already. Although the novel is a piece of fiction, many of the events alluded to are historical, and some of the characters do look very much like real life persons. The dynamics and dilemmas depicted were real dilemmas for various parties involved and especially for the Thuong (highland) people who are portrayed as victims of various policies and conflicts.”
Dr. Oscar Salemink, Anthropologist, Free University, Amsterdam, author of The Ethnography of Vietnam’s Central Highlanders

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