Going Indochinese: Contesting Concepts of Space and Place in French Indochina

by Christopher E. Goscha

Why, Benedict Anderson once asked, did Javanese become Indonesian in 1945 whereas the Vietnamese balked at becoming Indochinese? In this classic study, Goscha shows that Vietnamese of all political colours came remarkably close to building a modern national identity based on the colonial model of Indochina while Lao and Cambodian nationalists rejected this precisely because it represented a Vietnamese entity. Specialists of French colonial, Vietnamese,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776940993
• ISBN13: 9788776940997
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"