China’s Novelistic ‘Soft Power Invasion’ of Vietnam
Gooey romance novels thrill everybody but the government
In 2019, a then-third year Hanoi student named Dỗ Thị Phương was elated to be selected for an English-taught exchange program in China at the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing.
“My dream finally came true,” said Phương, having little idea of the university or of the strengths of the program that she was going to study in the following five mont…
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