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Go to todaySEAP Brown Bag Lecture Series “Anticommunist, Anticolonial, and Antifeudal: Nationalist Narratives of War and Revolution in South Vietnam” |
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| In 1954, the First Indochina War ended, leaving Vietnam independent from France but divided into the communist dominated north, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and the non-communist south, the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). Both Vietnams competed for the mantle of nationalist legitimacy, but the DRV had a distinctive advantage: while the communist regime had resisted the French militarily, the RVN was created more through diplomacy than warfare and lacked the same anticolonial credentials as its communist rival. To shore up its own legitimacy, the Saigon government sought to portray its northern neighbor as betrayers of the anticolonial struggle and stooges of international communism. In contrast, the RVN presented itself as a democratic, humane state that was the true heir of the Vietnamese nationalist tradition. Many writers and intellectuals, including a significant number of northern refugees, willingly collaborated with the RVN government in constructing an alternative memory of the anticolonial war. This anticommunist interpretation of the First Indochina War and the early post-independence period vilified the communists, revered non-communist nationalists, and contrasted northern oppression with southern freedom. In addition, the government claimed credit for clearing the country of the so-called “feudalist” forces of the First Indochina War and reinvented anticolonialism and antifeudalism as a campaign of cultural and social reform. During a brief period of mutual cooperation during the mid- to late-50s, southern intellectuals and the Saigon regime together constructed an anticommunist nationalist narrative that would become a founding myth for the RVN. | |
| Sponsor | SEAP Graduate Student Committee; partial funding from the U.S. Department of Education as part of SEAP's designation as a National Resource Center. |
| Date | November 12, 2009 |
| Time | 12:00PM -to- 1:30PM |
| Location | Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. |
| URL | Website available, click here |
| Speakers | Nu-Anh Tran (PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California at Berkeley) |
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For more information on this event contact: Andrew Johnson or Pamela Corey 607-255-2378 seapbrownbag@gmail.com |
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