Postcolonial Vietnam - New Histories of the National Past

"This wonderful and truly outstanding book presents little-known archival material in a most compelling fashion. Patricia M. Pelley has written an elegant and lucid book that will generate much scholarly discussion in the years to come, and in a number of disciplines. It will become mandatory reading for all those interested in Vietnam and Southeast Asian history. "--Panivong Norindr, author of "Phantasmatic Indochina: French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film and Literature"

List of contents

Acknowledgments
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A Note on Diacritics
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Introduction: Postcolonial Visions
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1. Constructing History
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2. The Land of the Viet and Viet Nam

3. Chronotypes, Commemoration: A New Sense of Time
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Epilogue
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List of Abbreviations
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Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the author

Patricia M. Pelley

Product details

• Authors: Patricia M Pelley, Patricia M. Pelley
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.2002
• EAN: 9780822329664
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2966-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous