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Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam
De Treglode
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Description for Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 process by which ""new heroes"" were invented. It first develops a picture of what constituted heroes in Vietnamese ... Read more
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 process by which ""new heroes"" were invented. It first develops a picture of what constituted heroes in Vietnamese ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971695545
SKU
V9789971695545
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About De Treglode
Benoit DE TREGLODE 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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