Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 / / David G. Marr

• Autore: Marr David G.
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1984]; ©1984
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (481 p.)
• Disciplina: 959.703
• Soggetto topico: Vietnam - History - 1858-1945; Vietnamese - Intellectual life; Intellectuals - Vietnam; Nationalism - Vietnam
• Soggetto geografico: Vietnam Intellectual life; Vietnam History 1858-1945
• Soggetto non controllato: 1930s; chairman mao; civilian army; colonialism; communism; feminism; french colony; french history; gender; independence; indochina; marxism; mass mobilization; military history; military strategy; military; modern vietnam; nonfiction; rebellion; revolution; se asia; social history; southeast asia; us militarism; vietnam communist party; vietnam war; vietnam; vietnamese history; vietnamese intellectuals; vietnamese people; vietnamese perspective; vietnamese women; war
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography (p. 429-452) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Colonial Setting -- 2. Morality Instruction -- 3. Ethics and Politics -- 4. Language and Literacy -- 5. The Question of Women -- 6. Perceptions of the Past -- 7. Harmony and Struggle -- 8. Knowledge Power -- 9. Learning from Experience -- 10. Conclusion -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite the historical importance of the Vietnam War, we know very little about what the Vietnamese people thought and felt prior to the conflict. Americans have tended to treat Vietnam as an extension of their own hopes and fears, successes and failures, rather than addressing the Vietnamese record. In this volume, David Marr offers the first serious intellectual history of Vietnam, focusing on the period just prior to full-scale revolutionary upheaval and protracted military conflict. He argues that changes in political and social consciousness between 1920 and 1945 were a necessary precondition to the mass mobilization and people's war strategies employed subsequently against the French and the Americans. Thus he rejects the prevailing notion that Vietnamese success was primarily due to communist techniques of organization. However, Vietnamese Tradition on Trial goes beyond simply accounting for anyone's victory or defeat to an informed description of intellectual currents in general. Replying for his information on a previously ignored corpus of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and leaflets, the author isolates eight issues of central concern to twentieth-century Vietnamese. The new intelligentsia-indubitably the product of a peculiar French colonial milieu, yet never divorced from the Vietnamese past and always looking to a brilliant Vietnamese future-spearheaded every debate beginning in 1925.After 1945, Vietnamese intellectuals either placed themselves under ruthless battlefield discipline or withdrew to private meditation. David Marr suggests that the new problems facing Vietnamese today make both of these approaches anachronistic. Whether the Vietnam Communist Party will allow citizens to subject received wisdom to critical debate, to formulate new explanations of reality, to test those explanations in practice, is the essential question lingering at the end of this study.
• Titolo autorizzato: Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945
• ISBN: 1-282-35524-4; 9786612355240; 0-520-90744-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822264203321
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