Heroes And Revolution In Vietnam

Author : Benoît de Tréglodé
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971695545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam written by Benoît de Tréglodé and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite from the towns and villages of the country. According to a categorization of patriotic exemplarity devised by Ho Chi Minh, "avant-garde workers," "exemplary soldiers" and "new heroes" would fill the ranks of a "new model society," one in which political virtue would serve as the principle to mobilize the masses. This study presents and analyzes the process by which "new heroes" were invented. It first develops a picture of what constituted heroes in Vietnamese tradition and history, and then shows how the new model, effectively a Sino-Soviet import, was imposed, only to be slowly distorted by its own cultural rationale and by specific objectives. Far from being a transitory phenomenon, this model has contributed for more than half a century to the reconstruction of the national imagination and the development of a new collective, patriotic and communist memory in Vietnam. «This fascinating account is like no other study in French or English. Based on primary sources from Archives No. III in Hanoi and scores of interviews, it is a fascinating read.» -Christopher Goscha, Professor of International Relations, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

Author : Benoît de Tréglodé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789971696238
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam written by Benoît de Tréglodé and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite from the towns and villages of the country. According to a categorization of patriotic exemplarity devised by Ho Chi Minh, "avant-garde workers", "exemplary soldiers" and "new heroes" would fill the ranks of a "new model society", one in which political virtue would serve as the principle to mobilize the masses. This study present and analyzes the process by which "new heroes" were invented. It first develops a picture of what constituted heroes in Vietnamese tradition and history, and then shows how the new model, effectively a Sino-Soviet import, was imposed, only to be slowly distorted by its own cultural rationale and by specific objectives. Far from being a transitory phenomenon, this model has contributed for more than half a century to the reconstruction of the national imagination and the development of a new collective, patriotic and communist memory in Vietnam.

Author : Kevin Ruane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135366950
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Revolution in Vietnam written by Kevin Ruane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for undergradaute courses on postwar American foreign policy, Southeast Asian history, the Cold War, the Vietnam war, international relations, decolonization, and third world communism, this introduction uses the wealth of recent research to place the Vietnam war within the contexts of European colonization, American Cold War strategy and Vietnam's own political history

Author : Tuong Vu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316875954
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Communist Revolution written by Tuong Vu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy. Unearthing new material from Vietnamese archives and publications, this book challenges the conventional scholarship and the popular image of the Vietnamese revolution and the Vietnam War as being driven solely by patriotic inspirations. The revolution not only saw successes in defeating foreign intervention, but also failures in bringing peace and development to Vietnam. This was, and is, the real tragedy of Vietnam. Spanning the entire history of the Vietnamese revolution and its aftermath, this book examines its leaders' early rise to power, the tumult of three decades of war with France, the US, and China, and the stubborn legacies left behind which remain in Vietnam today.

Author : Thomas Hodgkin
Publisher : London : Macmillan Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam written by Thomas Hodgkin and published by London : Macmillan Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pierre Asselin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100922932X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's American War written by Pierre Asselin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition masterfully explains the origins and outcome of America's war in Vietnam by focusing on its local dimensions.

Author : David Hunt
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 1558496920
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Southern Revolution written by David Hunt and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses released Rand interviews with 'Viet Cong' defectors and prisoners of war and past work involving the province of M? Tho to create a more up-to-date social framework for the Vietnam War at the village level.

Author : Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674746138
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution written by Hue-Tam Ho Tai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at the influence of radicalism on a crucial point in Vietnamese history. It reveals an era of student strikes, debates on women's emancipation, revolt against the patriarchal family and intellectual explorations of French and Chinese politics and thought.

Author : Pierre Asselin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520287495
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 written by Pierre Asselin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using new and largely inaccessible Vietnamese sources as well as French, British, Canadian and American archives, Pierre Asselin sheds valuable light on Hanoi's path to war. Step by step the narrative makes Hanoi's revolutionary strategy from the end of the French Indochina War to the start of the Anti-American Resistance Struggle for Reunification and National Salvation (the Vietnam War) transparent. The book reveals how North Vietnamese leaders moved from a cautious policy emphasizing nonviolent political and diplomatic struggle to a far riskier pursuit of military victory"--

Author : Philip Taylor
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739127391
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Re-enchantment written by Philip Taylor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative of a new wave of anthropological research on religion in Vietnam, Modernity and Re-enchantment brings together in a single book the latest and best research available on this topic. Its lively and original descriptions deftly evoke the burgeoning field of religiosity in contemporary Vietnam. With case studies into a great variety of religious practices, it covers more ground than the small handful of single-authored books currently available on religion in Vietnam.