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Voices Carried Across Decades
The Distant Theater of Print and Celluloid My first awareness of Vietnam was formed through the medium of paper and ink, long before I ever set foot upon its soil. By the…
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Memory, Modernity, and the Latinization of the Vietnamese Voice
Observations on the Northern Road Walking through the wide, tree-lined boulevards of Hanoi, one encounters a society moving with calm, unmistakable velocity. At street crossings around the Old Quarter and along the…
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The Pragmatist in Rubber Sandals
The Red River Behind Us Our second morning in Vietnam begins with the hum of a tour coach making its deliberate way out of Hanoi, leaving the dense, waking city behind. My…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.