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Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 19201963 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by Nu-Anh Tran, Tuong Vu, Phong Tuan Hoàng, Cindy Nguyen, Duy Lap Nguyen, Lương Hải Khôi Nguyễn, Martina Thucnhi Nguyen, Thị Minh Nguyễn, Y Thien Nguyen, Jason A. Picard, Yen Vu, Peter B. Zinoman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 19201963 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) about?
Western observers have long considered communism to be synonymous with Vietnam’s modern historical experience. Eager to make sense of the North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War, scholars and journalists have spilled much ink on the history of Vietnamese communists. But this preoccupation has obscured the diversity of ideas and experiences that defined Vietnam in the twentieth century, in which communism represented just one of many tendencies. __Building a Republican Nation in Postcolonial Vietnam, 1920–1963,__ posits that republicanism shaped modern Vietnam no less profoundly than communism. Republicans championed representative government, the universal rights of man, civil liberties, and the primacy of the nation. These ideas infused the thinking of Vietnamese reformers, dissidents, and revolutionaries from the 1900s onward, including many men and women who went on to lead the struggle for independence. Republicanism was also one of the chief inspirations for the establishment of the Republic of Vietnam (also known as South Vietnam) in 1955. This interdisciplinary volume brings together eleven essays by historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists,
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- Author
- Nu-Anh Tran, Tuong Vu, Phong Tuan Hoàng, Cindy Nguyen, Duy Lap Nguyen, Lương Hải Khôi Nguyễn, Martina Thucnhi Nguyen, Thị Minh Nguyễn, Y Thien Nguyen, Jason A. Picard, Yen Vu, Peter B. Zinoman
- Publisher
- University of Hawaiʻi Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824892111
- Category
- nonfiction
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