Children helping mother in preparation of new year food in kitchen at the SOS Children's Village Da Nang, Vietnam

I looked up the Wikipedia description of 'Da Nang' -- it read: "Da Nang is a major port city in the South Central Coast of Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea. It is one of the five independent municipalities in Vietnam."

"It was called Tourane or Turon during the French colonization of Vietnam. Da Nang is the commercial, educational, transportation center of Central Vietnam. The city keeps the highest urbanization ratio among provinces and municipalities in Vietnam. Da Nang is the first class city, together with other 4 cities, namely Vinh, Nha Trang, Da Lat, Quy Nhon."

Western narratives of the twentieth-century wars in Vietnam, Bradley writes, have “rendered the Vietnamese almost invisible in the making of their own history.” In this corrective study, Bradley skimps on anecdote and characterization, and his short treatise too often reads like a long encyclopedia entry. At its best, though, the book is a kind of review of Vietnamese literature, drawing on the war diary of a conflicted provincial physician, a novel about a paratrooper who is afraid to jump, irreverent peasant verse, playful proverbs (“The moon in China is much rounder than in the USA”), and the nineteen-sixties antiwar songs of the draft-dodging Trinh Công Son. ?