Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies) ISBN:0295984287 Author:Giebel, Christoph Publisher:University of Washington Press Release Date:2004 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:New Sku: 2341549 Notes: First edition. An exceptional copy. 2004 Hard Cover. xxii, 256 pp. Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism illuminates the real and imagined lives of Ton Duc Thang (1888–1980), a celebrated revolutionary activist and Vietnamese communist icon, but it is much more than a conventional biography. This multifaceted study constitutes the first detailed re-evaluation of the official history of the Vietnamese Communist Party and is a critical analysis of the inner workings of Vietnamese historiography never before undertaken in its scope. In prominence and public visibility second only to Ho Chi Minh, whom he succeeded in the presidency, Ton Duc Thang in fact lacked any real power. Author Christoph Giebel reconciles this seeming contradiction by showing that it was only Ton Duc Thang who could personify for the Party crucial legitimizing "ancestries": those that linked Vietnamese communism with the Russian October Revolution, highlighted proletarian internationalism among its ranks, and rooted the Party in Viet Nam's south. The study traces the decades-long, complex processes in which famous heroic episodes in Ton Duc Thang's life were manipulated or simply fabricated and―depending on prevailing historical and political necessities―utilized as propaganda by the Communist Party. Over time, narrative control over these tales switched hands, however, and since the late 1950s the stories came to be used in factional disputes by competing ideological and regional interests within the revolutionary camp. Based on innovative archival research in Viet Nam and France and on analyses of biographical writings, propaganda, and museum representations, the study challenges core assumptions about the history of the Vietnamese Communist Part and sheds light on divisions within the revolutionary movement along regional, class, and ideological lines. Giebel uses the fictions and contested facts of Ton's life to demonstrate that history-writing and the constructions of memories and identities are always political acts. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism : Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Year: 2004
Subject: Asia / Southeast Asia, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Presidents & Heads of State
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Christoph Giebel
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
