Laos : in the shadow of the giants / German United Distributors.
Impoverished, sparsely populated, and still recovering from the Vietnam War, Laos exists on the edge of the abyss. This program considers the cultural and economic impact on Laotians and Hmong alike of initiatives designed to improve the country, such as the new highway being built by Swedish engine...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2007], ©1998.
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| Series: | Films on Demand.
Asia in transition. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (47 min.) : sound, color, digital file. |
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In the shadow of the giants |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Laos: Overcoming Consequences of Vietnam War (4:57) -- Vientiane, Capital of Laos (4:18) -- Laotian Night Life (5:14) -- Laotian Re-Education Camps, Forests, and Dangerous Travel (3:56) -- Laos and Trans-Asia Highway (5:25) -- Laotian Buddhism (4:18) -- Trans-Asian Highway to China (5:18) -- Laotian Mountain Tribes (5:52) -- Laotian Wedding and Reception (5:36) | |
| 520 | |a Impoverished, sparsely populated, and still recovering from the Vietnam War, Laos exists on the edge of the abyss. This program considers the cultural and economic impact on Laotians and Hmong alike of initiatives designed to improve the country, such as the new highway being built by Swedish engineers. Although the regime's "reeducation camps" show no signs of being closed and antigovernment rebels continue to make travel dangerous, foreign tourism is being courted for the currency it can bring, while the country's rich spiritual life-expressed through the practices of Buddhism and animism-serenely continues. | ||
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