Steel Flowers

“Sherry Buchanan’s mantra is “No More War!”—the phrase of the Vietnamese artist Tran Trung Tin who painted in Hanoi during the bombings of the city. More war only brings suffering to other human beings, especially to young women. As sisters, wives, mothers and grandmothers, women must be loved and respected. Women must be free, happy and healthy and be able to live in a peaceful environment. Only then can they bring up a better, kinder and more peaceful next generation.” * Le Ly Hayslip, author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places *
“Finally, Sherry Buchanan challenges the female stereotypes of Vietnam War movies… . We need more books like Buchanan’s as a starting point to humanize Vietnamese women.” * Thuc Doan Nguyen, writer and film producer *
“Sherry Buchanan challenges American exceptionalism and innocence… . Despite the War’s moral implications, the mass death it wrought, the long aftermath of chemical weapon use, and the decades of physical and psychological trauma it caused Vietnamese civilians and fighters as well as American soldiers, Buchanan argues the U.S. has yet to truly grapple with what the invasion says about the country’s seemingly insatiable penchant for violent supremacy.” * Bob Scheer, journalist, broadcaster, and author *

Sherry Buchanan is a journalist and the publisher and editor of Asia Ink. She is the author of On The Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Blood Road, The Women Who Defended It, The Legacy, Vietnam Posters, the best-selling Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers’ Engravings & Stories, Mekong Diaries: Viet Cong Drawings and Stories, and Tran Trung Tin: Paintings and Poems from Vietnam.

Before creating Asia Ink, she served as an editor and columnist with The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune in New York, Brussels, Paris, London, and Hong Kong. She has a BA from Smith College and an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She lives between London and Southwest Scotland.

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