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Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, Date: 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. First edition. Edge wear. 2002 Trade Paperback. x, 326 pp. New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should be included as participants and agents in the story. Beginning with government-appointed historians’ first publications in 1954 and following their efforts over the next thirty years, Patricia M. Pelley surveys this daunting process and, in doing so, opens a wide window on the historical forces and tensions that have gone into shaping the new nation of Vietnam. Although she considers a variety of sources—government directives, census reports, statistics, poetry, civic festivities, ethnographies, and museum displays—Pelley focuses primarily on the work of official historians in Hanoi who argued about and tried to stabilize the meaning of topics ranging from prehistory to the Vietnam War. She looks at their strained and idiosyncratic attempts to plot the Vietnamese past according to Marxist and Stalinist paradigms and their ultimate abandonment of such models. She explores their struggle to redefine Vietnam in multiethnic terms and to normalize the idea of the family-state. Centering on the conversation that ...

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[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]

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[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

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[Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]

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