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On Our Own Strength - The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam (Hardcover)
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On Our Own Strength - The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam (Hardcover)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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On Our Own Strength examines the political activities of the most
influential intellectual movement in interwar French-occupied
Vietnam. The far-reaching work of the Self-Reliant Literary Group
(Tu Luc Van Doan) included applied design, urban reform, fashion,
literature, journalism, and cartoons; its work was deeply political
in both form and intent. The Group drew upon a wide range of global
intellectual currents and practices to build an enlightened public
that would one day serve as the basis of a modern Vietnamese
nation. Its nationalist vision sought a nonviolent middle path
between colonialism and anticolonial struggle, advocating a process
of gradual decolonization that ultimately ended in Vietnamese
autonomy. This form of cosmopolitan nationalism proved tremendously
popular among ordinary Vietnamese and necessarily shaped local
politics, influencing the political agenda of even rival groups
such as the newly revived Indochinese Communist Party (ICP). On Our
Own Strength shows how the Group's vision shaped the ways ICP
positioned itself and sought popular support in the years leading
up to the August Revolution and beyond. In later years, the party
attempted to erase the Group's early influence on national
politics, banning their writings and casting them as little more
than bourgeois literary figures. In recovering the Group's unique
response to the world around them, this book bridges the areas of
political, cultural, and intellectual history, drawing them
together into a rich narrative of Vietnamese nation-building from
the bottom-up within a larger global context. Martina Thucnhi
Nguyen offers a powerful model for the field of Vietnamese studies
as it continues to move beyond simplistic and political narratives
of its most tumultuous period. Groundbreaking in perception, her
book engages broadly with global history, European history, and
imperial studies to explore colonialism's hybrid cultural and
political forms. She examines how the Self-Reliant Literary Group
weighed in on everything from women's fashion and public housing to
the major political ideologies of the era, in a unique style that
mixed French-inflected ideas with Vietnamese norms and forms. As a
deep case study of important figures on the Vietnamese moderate
left, On Our Own Strength provides an injection of colour and
nuance into a history that is often too monochromatic.
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