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Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963
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Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Western observers have long considered communism to be synonymous
with Vietnam’s modern historical experience. Eager to make sense
of the North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War, scholars and
journalists have spilled much ink on the history of Vietnamese
communists. But this preoccupation has obscured the diversity of
ideas and experiences that defined Vietnam in the twentieth
century, in which communism represented just one of many
tendencies. Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963,
posits that republicanism shaped modern Vietnam no less profoundly
than communism. Republicans championed representative government,
the universal rights of man, civil liberties, and the primacy of
the nation. These ideas infused the thinking of Vietnamese
reformers, dissidents, and revolutionaries from the 1900s onward,
including many men and women who went on to lead the struggle for
independence. Republicanism was also one of the chief inspirations
for the establishment of the Republic of Vietnam (also known as
South Vietnam) in 1955. This interdisciplinary volume brings
together eleven essays by historians, political scientists,
literary scholars, and sociologists, who make use of fresh sources
to study the development of republicanism from the colonial period
to the First Republic of Vietnam (1955–1963). The introduction by
coeditors Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu critically analyzes the existing
scholarship on the First Republic, explains how the concept of
republicanism can illuminate developments in the Saigon-based
state, and situates the regime in a comparative context with South
Korea. Peter Zinoman’s chapter reviews the historiography on
republicanism and modern Vietnam and heralds the arrival of the
"republican moment" in the field of Vietnam studies. Several
chapters by Nguyễn Lương Hải Khôi, Martina Thucnhi Nguyen,
and Yen Vu examine the transformation of republican ideas. Nu-Anh
Tran and Duy Lap Nguyen explore competing concepts of democracy and
the factional politics of the First Republic. The essays by Jason
Picard, Cindy Nguyen, Hoà ng Phong Tuấn, Nguyễn Thị
Minh, and Y Thien Nguyen analyze nation- and state-building efforts
in the 1950s and 1960s. Collectively, the essays give voice to
Vietnamese republicans, from the ideas they espoused to the
institutions they built and the legacies they left behind.
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