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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790865403321

Autore

Zinoman Peter <1965->

Titolo

Vietnamese colonial republican : the political vision of Vũ Trọng Phụng / / Peter Zinoman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-520-95709-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

895.92233

Soggetti

Social change - Vietnam

Vietnam Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sources of Vũ Trọng Phụng's colonial republicanism -- Capitalism and social reform -- The question of communism -- The crisis of Vietnamese sexuality -- Banning Vũ Trọng Phụng.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is a comprehensive study of Vietnam's greatest and most controversial 20th century writer who died tragically in 1939 at the age of 28. Vu Trong Phung is known for a remarkable collection of politically provocative novels and sensational works of non-fiction reportage that were banned by the communist state from 1960 to 1986. Leading Vietnam scholar, Zinoman, resurrects the life and work of an important intellectual and author in order to reveal a neglected political project that is excluded from conventional accounts of modern Vietnamese political history. He sees Vu Trong Phung as a leading proponent of a localized republican tradition that opposed colonialism, communism, and unfettered capitalism-and that led both to the banning of his work and to the durability of his popular appeal in Vietnam today.