Synopses & Reviews
A collection of essays written on twentieth-century Vietnamese society,
Viandecirc;t Nam Exposandeacute; is one of only a handful of books written by French scholars for an English-speaking audience. The volume is multidisciplinary and represents a new trend in Vietnamese studies that addresses issues beyond politics, wars, and violence, exploring the complexity of more subtle power relationships in Vietnamese society.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I, "Vietnamese Society in the Early Twentieth Century," takes a micro approach to the study of Vietnamese society on the eve of the irreversible social transformation that occurred as the colonial infrastructure took root in Indochina. Part II, "Vietnamese Intellectuals: Contesting Colonial Power," contains biographical accounts of Vietnamese intellectuals who tried to reform their society under colonial domination. Part III, "Post-Colonial Vietnam: From Welfare State to Market-Oriented Economy," traces Vietnam's search for a viable economic model while maintaining itself as a socialist state.
The book speaks to diverse themes, including the nature of village life, the development of health care during the colonial era, the status of women, the role of Vietnamese intellectuals in the anticolonial struggle, the building of a socialist state, contemporary rural migration, labor relations, and Vietnam in an age of globalization.
Gisele Bousquet is Research Associate at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Pierre Brocheux is Maandicirc;tre de Conference of History, Universitandeacute; Denis Diderot-Paris VII.
Synopsis
A masterfully edited volume that explores the complexity of power relationships in Vietnamese society
Table of Contents
Who has the power in the village? Political process and social reality in Vietnam / Philippe Papin -- Village rebellions in the Tonkin Delta, 1900-1905 / Philippe Le Failler -- Rethinking the status of Vietnamese women in folklore and oral history / Nguyãen Van Ky -- Administrative practices : an essential aspect of Mandarinal training (nineteenth-early twentieth century) / Emmanuel Poisson -- In the shadow of the colonial hospital : developing health care in Indochina, 1860-1939 / Laurence Monnais-Rousselot -- Prince Cuong Dãe and the Franco-Vietnamese competition for the heritage of Gia Long / Agathe Larcher-Goscha -- A Vietnamese scholar with a different path : Huynh Thuc Khang, publisher of the first Vietnamese newspaper in Quãoc Ngu in Central Vietnam, Tieng dan (People's voice) / Phan Thi Minh Le -- The 1925 generation of Vietnamese intellectuals and their role in the struggle for independence / Trinh Van Thao -- Henriette Bui : the narrative of Vietnam's first woman doctor / Tran Thi Liãen -- The economy of war as a prelude to a "socialist economy" : the case of the Vietnamese resistance against the French, 1945-1954 / Pierre Brocheux -- The chronicle of a failure : collectivization in Northern Vietnam, 1958-1988 / Florence Yvon-Tran -- Labor restructuring in Vietnam / Xavier Oudin -- Agro-commodity chains in northern Vietnam : new mechanisms for old stakeholders / Pascal Bergeret -- Commuting from the village to the city : analyzing the patterns of migration of the people of the northern village of Hay to Hanoi / Olivier Tessier -- Facing globalization : Vietnam and the francophone community / Gisele Bousquet.