- A New Analysis By Nguyen Gia Kieng - A New Assessment Of Vietnam's Predicament By Nguyễn Gia Kiểng Translated & Annotated By Nguyễn Ngọc Phách. - The book seeks to answer the question: why communism has conquered Vietnam with such great ease, and why Vietnam has consistently failed to become a free society and achieve economic development, and the Vietnamese had to constantly suffer oppression and poverty. It uncovers the connections between Vietnam's cultural heritage and its sorry state. It shows that the weight of Vietnam's heritage is very heavy and inhibitive, and that an effective reconstruction of Vietnam must begin with a full reassessment of its cultural values leading to changes of certain of them to allow Vietnamese society to modernize itself in order to move forward and achieve freedom and prosperity.