Vietnam as a ‘Domain of Manifest Civility’ (<i>Va˘n Hieˆn chi Bang</i>)

Kelley, Liam C.

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“…In focusing here on how sight and images can evoke and challenge that sense of being morally active in an uncertain world, I hope to enrich our understanding of moral life, particularly in relation to the varied modes and registers in which the sense of self is experienced, within and beyond Vietnam (Laidlaw 2014: 101–111; Leshkowich 2014). It is widely agreed that in Vietnam selfhood is expressed relationally, and causality is a matter of the cosmic and fated interacting with willed action and intention (Hy Van Luong 1988; Kelley 2003). 12 This does not mean that individuals lack a sense of personal responsibility for their conduct.…”

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Beyond ‘Propaganda’: Images and the moral citizen in late-socialist Vietnam

Bayly

2020

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article forges connections between two vibrant areas of current research within and beyond Asian studies: visual anthropology and the anthropology of morality and ethics. Its focus is on achieving moral citizenship as represented in Vietnam's visually spectacular capital, Hanoi, and on images as active and morally compelling, not mere reflections of the challenges of late-socialist marketization. The case of Vietnam compares intriguingly with other contexts where visuality has been fruitfully explored, including India and post-socialist Eurasia. The question asked is how images, both personal and official, can work either to provide or deny the viewer a quality of moral agency which they feel to be their due. The answer is found in the intertwining of silence and speech in relation to images. This includes what is said and unsaid in regard to public iconography, including memorial statuary and state message posters. It is proposed that the visuality of the urban street space is a continuum involving significant interaction with the intimacies of home and family image use. The article also seeks to add to our methodological ideas about treating fieldwork photographs as a basis for interaction with interlocutors, hence as active research tools rather than mere adjuncts to observation and analysis.

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Beyond ‘Propaganda’: Images and the moral citizen in late-socialist Vietnam

Bayly

2020

Mod. Asian Stud.

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“…Anthony Reid's Southeast Asia in the age of commerce (1998) and Victor Lieberman's Strange parallels (2003) offer a magisterial sweep of the region. Keith Taylor (2013), John Whitmore (1983 and Alexander Woodside (1976) have explored Vietnam's premodern period, work continued by a new generation of scholars including Li Tana (1998), Nola Cooke (1998) and Liam Kelley (2003), among others. Today, Oliver W. Wolters' interpretation of the mandala concept is still often used as a shorthand to characterise the age of empires.…”

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A postmodern mandala? Moving beyond methodological nationalism

Sutherland

2016

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“…This was one reason for normative definitions of ‘liberty’ and ‘democracy’ in China, such as ‘ “disorderly administration by many” and “government by the rabble” ’ (Richter, 2005, p. 12) 1 . Western terminology rendered into Vietnamese was often the result of a double translation, first from French or English into Chinese or Japanese, and then again into modern Vietnamese (Kelley, 2003, p. 72; Marr, 2003, p. 257).…”

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“…The argument that nationalism is a product of modern circumstance has much to commend it in the Vietnamese case, however (Vu, 2007, p. 180). Liam Kelley (2003) has demonstrated how second millennium understandings of the Vietnamese realm as a ‘domain of manifest civility’ were premised on a completely different world view to that of ‘nation-states’. This status was measured in literary output and records accessible only to the educated elite.…”

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Reconciling Nation and Region: Vietnamese Nation Building and Asean Regionalism

Sutherland

2009

Political Studies

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The article sets out to gauge the usefulness of the concepts of legitimacy, sovereignty and nation in theorising a specific, South‐East Asian case of nation building. It looks at the interplay between nation building and regionalist ideology in Vietnam, within the context of the Association of South‐East Asian Nations (ASEAN). As one of the world's last communist states, the way in which Vietnam has reconciled hard‐won sovereignty with regionalisation is all the more intriguing. The article distinguishes the state‐led ideology of regionalism from the macro‐level process of regionalisation in charting how sovereignty, legitimacy and nation are constructed in the Vietnamese case, with a view to drawing parallels with experiences in other regions. The first section looks at the concepts of legitimacy, sovereignty and nation and how they underpin the state construct, before relating these to Vietnam's ongoing nation‐building project in the second section. The final section evaluates the evolution of these concepts within a regional framework, with specific reference to Vietnam's experience as a member of ASEAN. It concludes that official nation building in Vietnam continues to be based on the premises of state sovereignty and legitimacy, an approach eminently compatible with ‘the ASEAN way’. The Vietnamese Communist party seeks to reconcile regionalism with its ongoing nation‐building project in a bid to bolster both domestic legitimacy and external sovereignty.

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Vietnam as a ‘Domain of Manifest Civility’ (Va˘n Hieˆn chi Bang)

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Beyond ‘Propaganda’: Images and the moral citizen in late-socialist Vietnam

Beyond ‘Propaganda’: Images and the moral citizen in late-socialist Vietnam

A postmodern mandala? Moving beyond methodological nationalism

Reconciling Nation and Region: Vietnamese Nation Building and Asean Regionalism

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