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Contesting Indochina : French remembrance between decolonization and Cold War,
\"How does a nation come to terms with losing a war--especially an overseas war the purpose of which is fervently contested? In the ensuing years, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the violent process of decolonization and a fraught reckoning with a colonial past. Contesting Indochina is the first in-depth study of the competing and intertwined narratives of the Indochina War. It analyzes the layers of French remembrance, focusing on state-sponsored commemoration, veterans' associations, special-interest groups, intellectuals, films, and heated public disputes. These narratives make up the ideological battleground for contesting the legacies of colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War, and France's changing global status\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Indochinese experience of the French and the Americans : nationalism and communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Dommen's book promises to be the definitive political history of
Indochina during the Franco-American era. -- William M. Leary, E. Merton
Coulter Professor of History, University of Georgia This
magisterial study by Arthur J. Dommen sets the Indochina wars 'French and American'
in perspective as no book that has come before. He summarizes the history of the
peninsula from the Vietnamese War of Independence from China in 930-39 through the
first French military actions in 1858, when the struggle of the peoples of Indochina
with Western powers began. Dommen details the crucial episodes in
the colonization of Indochina by the French and the indigenous reaction to it. The
struggle for national sovereignty reached an acute state at the end of World War II,
when independent governments rapidly assumed power in Vietnam and Cambodia. When the
French returned, the struggle became one of open warfare, with Nationalists and
Communists gripped in a contest for ascendancy in Vietnam, while the rulers of
Cambodia and Laos sought to obtain independence by
negotiation. The withdrawal of the French after their defeat at
Dien Bien Phu brought the Indochinese face-to-face, whether as friends or as
enemies, with the Americans. In spite of an armistice in 1954, the war between Hanoi
and Saigon resumed as each enlisted the help of foreign allies, which led to the
renewed loss of sovereignty as a result of alliances and an increasingly heavy loss
of lives. Meticulous and detailed, Dommen's telling of this complicated story is
always judicious. Nevertheless, many people will find his analysis of the Diem coup
a disturbing account of American plotting and murder. This is an
essential book for anyone who wants to understand Vietnam and the people who fought
against the United States and won.
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Silk Roads
One of the greatest art theft stories of the 20th century: André Malraux, French novelist, art theorist, and eventually France's Minister of Cultural Affairs, and his wife, Clara, traveled to Cambodia in 1923, planning to steal and smuggle artifacts out of the country and sell them in America. The Cambodian treasure hunt promised to be a mix of cultural sleuthing for important antiquities and risk-taking on the fuzzy edge of the laws that governed historical sites. The jungle expedition ended in arrest and, for André, trial and conviction. But it also led to a second Asian venture: the launching of a Saigon newspaper, L'Indochine, dedicated to the aspirations of the indigenous population. Madsen follows the couple from this fateful adventure that so shaped their future to the end of their marriage, and after.
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Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom
Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the “Secret War” in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s,
Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom reveals how the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, and illuminates their political choices over the course of a century in a highly contested region of Asia. In China, Vietnam, and Laos, the Hmong continuously negotiated with these states and with the French to maintain political autonomy in a world of shifting boundaries, emerging nation-states, and contentious nationalist movements and ideologies. Often divided by clan rivalries, the Hmong placed their hope in finding a leader who could unify them and recover their sovereignty. In a compelling analysis of Hmong society and leadership throughout the French colonial period, Mai Na M. Lee identifies two kinds of leaders—political brokers who allied strategically with Southeast Asian governments and with the French, and messianic resistance leaders who claimed the Mandate of Heaven. The continuous rise and fall of such leaders led to cycles of collaboration and rebellion. After World War II, the powerful Hmong Ly clan and their allies sided with the French and the new monarchy in Laos, but the rival Hmong Lo clan and their supporters allied with Communist coalitions. Lee argues that the leadership struggles between Hmong clans destabilized French rule and hastened its demise. Martialing an impressive array of oral interviews conducted in the United States, France, and Southeast Asia, augmented with French archival documents, she demonstrates how, at the margins of empire, minorities such as the Hmong sway the direction of history. Best books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association
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Tourism and colonization in Indochina (1898-1939)
Direct flights to former imperial capitals, continued visits to the same tourist sites, and the emergence of tours dedicated to the imperial past all pose the question of the heritage of tourism in the former colonies. Lesser-known as a field of research, the study of tourism in colonial situations has begun to impose itself over the past decade as an important issue. Interestingly, in the colonial era, tourism was one element of the policies used by the colonial power to highlight its colony.
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Precipitation over Indochina during the monsoon transition: modulation by Indian Ocean and ENSO regimes
The interannual variability of precipitation during the summer monsoon transition over the Indochina Peninsula (ICP) is substantially influenced by the sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) of the tropical ocean, showing a robust relationship between April and May (AM) precipitation and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. Dynamic composites and statistical analyses supported by model experiments indicate that the observed anomalous AM precipitation is associated with circulation anomalies over the Pacific and, in addition, affected by the response to the tropical SSTAs forcing from the Indian Ocean (IO): (i) Less (greater) than normal AM precipitation over the ICP occurs during the El Niño (La Niña) years, which is consistent with late (early) Bay of Bengal (BoB) summer monsoon onset. (ii) The dry (wet) AM precipitation years are associated with the anomalous western North Pacific (WNP) anti-cyclone (cyclone) induced by El Niño (La Niña) concurrent with the anti-cyclone (cyclone) over the BoB, suppressing (favoring) the meridional flow of warm and moist air from the Pacific and Indian ocean and thus cutting (providing) moisture supply for the ICP. (iii) The reduced tropical convective activity over Maritime Continent (MC) is related to the weakened local Hadley circulation concurrent with the weakened overturning Walker circulation, and favors a drier than normal AM precipitation over the ICP, to which the wetter years are opposite. These symmetric atmospheric circulation patterns characterizing dry and wet AM precipitation over the ICP are also reproduced by numerical experiments with an atmospheric general circulation model.
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