Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885–1925

Marr, David G.

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“…The second group, which is the largest in our sample, explicitly promotes local agency and favors the "nation-to-nation" framework in different ways. The earliest theme is a nationalist one: the scholars who were amazed by Vietnam's consecutive triumphs over France and America suggested that this remarkable feat was a modern manifestation of Vietnam's long history of resisting the pressure of assimilation from its aggressive northern neighbor (Buttinger, 1968;Duiker, 1976Duiker, , 1986Jamieson, 1993;Marr, 1971;Taylor, 1983). A slightly different one is asserting that a unique Vietnamese civilization would have thrived in the Red River Delta should China not have coveted its prosperity and imposed its foreign rule on it under the pretext of civilizing mission (Holmgren, 1980;Kim, 2015;Taylor, 1983).…”

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Academic Dependency Theory and the Politics of Agency in Area Studies: The Case of Anglophone Vietnamese Studies from the 1960s to the 2010s

Chang¹

2022

J Historical Sociology

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Academic dependency theory argues that scholars of developing countries uncritically imitate Western academia. Anglophone Vietnamese studies presents a puzzle: many scholars, particularly historians, follow the research frameworks developed in Vietnam and emphasize Vietnam's agency since the field emerged in the 1960s. To explain, this essay conducts content and citation analyses of 25 key texts on history of Vietnam. The findings show that they are influenced by Vietnamese official historiography in the following ways. First, they adopt Vietnam's “nation to nation” framework and essentialize China into a Confucian Other in dealing with the asymmetrical dimension between the two societies. Second, while their works utilize sources in Literary Sinitic, they seem to rely on modern Vietnamese translations and reinterpretations rather than on original primary sources. Third, the scholars are more attentive to Chinese authors' ethnocentrism than to their Vietnamese counterparts, even though ethnocentrism is inherent in both. By following Vietnam's nationalistic historiography and emphasizing Vietnam's agency, Anglophone scholars are wittingly or unwittingly involved in the power struggles between the United States and China, a current hegemon and a historical one that has been rising rapidly in the twenty‐first century.

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Academic Dependency Theory and the Politics of Agency in Area Studies: The Case of Anglophone Vietnamese Studies from the 1960s to the 2010s

Chang¹

2022

J Historical Sociology

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“…One of his mandarins, Tran Cao Van (himself a geomancer, like Phan Xich Long), thought they might have a window of opportunity in May 1916 to launch an uprising in the capital of Hué 144 . He was aware of the gross dissatisfaction of the men recruited for military service in Europe and sought to tap into their discontent to provide troops for a monarchist uprising 145 . His plan was to sneak Duy Tan out of the palace, get him out into the mountains, and then rally discontented runaways and deserters to their cause.…”

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Rebellion and Resistance in French Indochina in the First World War

Krause

2019

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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The First World War was not merely a clash of empires, it was also a clash within empires. This fact remains largely ignored despite the dozens of anticolonial uprisings around the world which erupted during, and as a result of, the war. In 1916 alone there were uprisings across French North, West and Equatorial Africa, in Portuguese Angola and Mozambique, the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and Ireland. Most of these uprisings were responding both to European efforts to extract resources (especially manpower) from the colonies to support the war effort, whilst also taking advantage of the reduced presence of European troops in Asia and Africa as men were recalled from the colonies to take part in the war in Europe. This article examines anticolonial rebellions in French Indochina, especially the attack on Saigon Central Prison in 1916, as a case study in the wider global history of anticolonial rebellion during the Frist World War. Examination of this rebellion shows how the First World War not only generated the opportunities and challenges which led to a surge of anticolonial uprisings around the world, but also changed the political, social and religious character of anticolonial struggle in Indochina. This article offers a reappraisal of the global and imperial consequences of the First World War, and argues that anticolonialism should be more central in our discussion and memory of the conflict.

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“…3 In the pre-modern and early modern periods, China's vast territory and population, rich resources and the legacy of the hierarchical tributary system made it difficult for some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, such as Vietnam, to strike a balance between resistance and 3 dependence. 4 As historian Chen Jian points out, this longstanding 'central kingdom' mentality strong influenced the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who aspired to promote a world proletarian revolution according to the Chinese model. 5 In the early years of the PRC, policy-makers believed so strongly in the reproducibility of China's experiences in Southeast Asia, where local communist movements had already gained momentum after World War II, that some leaders were convinced that 'China's today is Southeast Asia's tomorrow.'…”

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