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VNLP Viet Nam Literature Project from Literary Dubbing of Confession By Ben Tran Please continue toViet Thanh Nguyens response following Ben Trans remarks both excerpted from a critics roundtable on the novelist in PMLA March 2018. Although the United States lost the Vietnam War on the battlefield it won the war on two longterm fronts economic ideology and cultural memory. A mere eleven years after the fall of Saigon in 1975 the Vietnamese government officially transitioned from a ration economy to a market socialist one. This perestroika resulted in capitalist development more akin to what the United States had propagated when it entered the war to prevent the cascading growth of communism throughout Asia.