{"product_id":"beauty-and-the-nation-women-culture-and-the-national-image-in-interwar-vietnam-paperback","title":"Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristina E. Firpo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the interwar years, Vietnamese society witnessed a rapid change in the way women looked. Rejecting the model of a sequestered maiden with blackened teeth and long hair, they embraced a vivid palette of colors--and a colorful lifestyle to match. Before the war, Vietnam would have seemed like an unlikely place for a beauty industry to thrive. Virtuous young women were expected to hide their natural beauty, not manipulate it with makeup or flaunt it at a beauty contest. Yet ordinary women began seeking out the latest fashions--to great public consternation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristina E. Firpo explores the development of beauty culture in this period, showing how women's faces and bodies became contested sites for envisioning what it meant to be Vietnamese in the modern world. She considers dress patterns, lip-lining tutorials, hairstyles, physiques, and beauty pageants alongside new technologies of media, transportation, and leisure and the anxieties they provoked. The everyday decisions women made about their appearance, Firpo argues, were ways to stake a claim to the roles they wanted to play in the new society taking shape around them. Drawing on a vast array of sources, \u003ci\u003eBeauty and the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e offers fresh insight into the tumultuous political, economic, social, and cultural changes that swept across Vietnam during this crucial period.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristina E. Firpo is professor of history at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and \u003ci\u003eThe Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978233381165,"sku":"9780231208871","price":58.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/3flbFiCfgq9780231208871.webp?v=1775801170","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/beauty-and-the-nation-women-culture-and-the-national-image-in-interwar-vietnam-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}