Describes and analyzes Vietnam1s political, economic, social and national security systems and institutions and the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Also covers people1s origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests and issues on which they are divided, the nature and extent of their involvement with national institutions and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order. 19 maps and photos.

A fresh perspective on socialist law as practiced in China and Vietnam, two major socialist states.

"Proceedings of Vietnam Update Conference November 1992, Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU".