Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam
On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite from the towns and villages of the country. According to a categorization of patriotic exemplarity devised by Ho Chi Minh, “avant-garde workers”, “exemplary soldiers” and “new heroes” would fill the ranks of a “new model society”, one in which political virtue would serve as the principle to mobilize the masses.
This study presents and analyzes the proc...
Note de l’auteur
To Émile Brindejonc de Birmingham, Yves-Marie and Alain Brindejonc de Tréglodé, who spent time in Vietnam, respectively, from 1859-1861, 1888-1889 and 1953-1954.
Éditeur : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine, National university of Singapore press
Lieu d’édition : Singapour
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 2 octobre 2024
ISBN numérique : 978-2-35596-065-9
Collection : NUS Press-IRASEC Studies on Southeast Asia
Année d’édition : 2012
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-9971-69-554-5
Nombre de pages : xiii-244
Christopher E. Goscha
ForewordChapter 1
Heroism in VietnamChapter 2
Patriotic Emulation (1948–1952)Chapter 3
The Emulation Fighter (1950–1964)Chapter 4
The New Hero (1952–1964)Chapter 5
The Life of the DeadChapter 6
The Cult of the New HeroChapter 7
Mass Culture and the Patriotic PantheonOn the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite from the towns and villages of the country. According to a categorization of patriotic exemplarity devised by Ho Chi Minh, “avant-garde workers”, “exemplary soldiers” and “new heroes” would fill the ranks of a “new model society”, one in which political virtue would serve as the principle to mobilize the masses.
This study presents and analyzes the process by which “new heroes” were invented. It first develops a picture of what constituted heroes in Vietnamese tradition and history, and then shows how the new model, effectively a Sino-Soviet import, was imposed, only to be slowly distorted by its own cultural rationale and by specific objectives. Far from being a transitory phenomenon, this model has contributed for more than half a century to the reconstruction of the national imagination and the development of a new collective, patriotic and communist memory in Vietnam.
Benoit de Tréglodé has a PhD in History and Civilization from the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, and is currently Director of IRASEC (Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia) in Bangkok, Thailand.
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