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Author McHale, Shawn Frederick.

Title Print and power : Confucianism, communism, and Buddhism in the making of modern Vietnam / Shawn Frederick McHale
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description xii, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
regular print
Series Southeast Asia: politics, meaning, memory
Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
Contents Transforming print culture and the public sphere -- The colonial state and repression of the printed word -- Confucianism and Vietnamese culture -- Printing revolution, spreading communism -- From popular visions of paradise to the Buddhist revival
Summary "This book challenges long-held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printed matter soared between 1920 and 1945 and in the process transformed Vietnamese public life and shaped the modern Vietnamese consciousness." "Print and Power makes a significant contribution to Vietnamese and Asian studies and will be of compelling interest to those in the field of comparative religion and European colonialism."--BOOK JACKET
Notes "This book began to take shape years ago as a doctoral dissertation and has since been revised extensively." -- p. [vii]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-250) and index
Subject Nationalism and historiography.
Buddhism -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
Confucianism -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
Communism -- Vietnam -- History.
Printing -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT Vietnam -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143250 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
Vietnam -- History -- 1858-1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143259 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
LC no. 2003007985
ISBN 0824826558 hardcover alkaline paper