This paper attemps to analyze the Vietnamese Women's Family values and the Communist Emanicipation as seen through Modern Literature. The main goal of this paper is to examine how successfully the new Communist Credo has changed the women's ties to family tradition and, if not. What were the real causes which determaned their life under the dramatic Social Change historically. Vietnamese Culture had been influenced by Chinese Confucianism and French Colonialism on the other hand, Communist literature was written for the purpose of Consolidating Vietnamese newly moral standards.
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