Print and power : Confucianism, communism, and Buddhism in the making of modern Vietnam
"In this book, Shawn McHale 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu, ©2004