Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory

by Christoph Giebel

Book Overview

Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communisim illuminates the real and imagined lives of Ton Duc Thang (1888-1980), a celebrated revolutionary activist and Vietnamese communist icon, but it is much more than a conventional biography. This multifaceted study constitutes the first detailed re-evaluation of the official history of the Vietnamese Communist Party and is a critical analysis of the inner workings of Vietnamese historiography never before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295984295
• ISBN13: 9780295984292
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"