The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism
Title | The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe M.F. Peycam |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2012-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231528043 |
Philippe M. F. Peycam completes the first ever English-language study of Vietnam's emerging political press and its resistance to colonialism. Published in the decade that preceded the Communist Party's founding, this journalistic phenomenon established a space for public, political contestation that fundamentally changed Vietnamese attitudes and the outlook of Southeast Asia. Peycam directly links Saigon's colonial urbanization to the creation of new modes of individual and collective political agency. To better justify their presence, French colonialists implemented a peculiar brand of republican imperialism to encourage the development of a highly controlled print capitalism. Yet the Vietnamese made clever use of this new form of political expression, subverting colonial discourse and putting French rulers on the defensive, while simultaneously stoking Vietnamese aspirations for autonomy. Peycam specifically considers the work of Western-educated Vietnamese journalists who, in their legal writings, called attention to the politics of French rule. Peycam rejects the notion that Communist and nationalist ideologies changed the minds of "alienated" Vietnamese during this period. Rather, he credits colonial urban modernity with shaping the Vietnamese activist-journalist and the role of the French, even at their most coercive, along with the modern public Vietnamese intellectual and his responsibility toward the group. Countering common research on anticolonial nationalism and its assumptions of ethno-cultural homogeneity, Peycam follows the merging of French republican and anarchist traditions with neo-Confucian Vietnamese behavior, giving rise to modern Vietnamese public activism, its autonomy, and its contradictory aspirations. Interweaving biography with archival newspaper and French police sources, he writes from within these journalists' changing political consciousness and their shifting perception of social roles.
Colonialism Experienced
Title | Colonialism Experienced PDF eBook |
Author | Truong Buu Lâm |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472067121 |
Documenting a shifting worldview in late-colonial Vietnam
Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
Title | Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Liam C. Kelley |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 210 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9819736110 |
In the Crossfire
Title | In the Crossfire PDF eBook |
Author | Ngo Van |
Publisher | AK Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1849350132 |
A stunning autobiographical account of the fight for freedom in Ho Chi Min's Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh's Blueprint for Revolution
Title | Ho Chi Minh's Blueprint for Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Morris |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2018-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 147666563X |
When Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, the communist victory sent shockwaves around the world. Using ingenious strategy and tactics, Hồ Chi Minh had shown it was possible for a tiny nation to defeat a mighty Western power. The same tactics have been studied and replicated by revolutionary forces and terrorist organizations across the globe. Drawing on recently declassified documents and rare interviews with Hồ Chi Minh's strategists and operatives, this book offers fresh perspective on his blueprint and the reasons behind both the French (1945-1954) and the American (1959-1975) failures in Vietnam, concluding with an analysis of the threat this model poses today.
Embers of War
Title | Embers of War PDF eBook |
Author | Fredrik Logevall |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 866 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0375504427 |
A history of the four decades leading up to the Vietnam War offers insights into how the U.S. became involved, identifying commonalities between the campaigns of French and American forces while discussing relevant political factors.
The Vietnamese City in Transition
Title | The Vietnamese City in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Gubry |
Publisher | Institute of Southeast Asian |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9812308253 |
Since the Doi Moi policy of economic renovation was introduced in 1986, Vietnam has undergone deep transformations as a result of the transition to a socialist-oriented market economy. Social and urban transition has taken place in parallel, as urban dynamics were spurred on by Vietnamese public and private stakeholders, and by external agents such as international organizations and international solidarity organizations, experts, consultants and bilateral aid organizations.Here are the results of research carried out by French, Canadian and Vietnamese teams from the north and south of the country on the overarching theme of Vietnamese cities in transition. Some of this research deals with urban dynamics, some with the issues at stake within such dynamics, or with the strategies of the most significant stakeholders in urban transition: civil society, donors within the framework of official aid for development, consultants and international consultancy firms. These projects were carried out between 2001 and 2004 as part of the Urban Research Programme for Development (PRUD), and mainly focus on Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, or both in the case of comparative studies.Is there such a thing as a Vietnamese model of an Asian city? It seems that urban transition in Vietnam is not taking place in as radical and abrupt a manner as in China. The country's capacity for absorbing external models, the quest for a third way between state intervention and economic liberalism, and the fact that the country's architectural heritage is taken into account in urban planning, are just some of the reasons for its particularity. The issues addressed in each chapter, as well as the proposals for further research suggested by the contributors, should act as a catalyst for urban research in Vietnam.