Vietnamese colonial republican : the political vision of Vũ Trọng Phụng / Peter Zinoman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zinoman, Peter, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Vietnam.

Social change.

Vietnam--Intellectual life--20th century.

Vietnam.

Vũ, Trọng Phụng, 1912-1939--Criticism and interpretation.

Vũ, Trọng Phụng.

Vũ, Trọng Phụng, 1912-1939--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is a comprehensive study of Vietnam's greatest and most controversial 20th century writer who died tragically in 1939 at the age of 28. Vu Trong Phung is known for a remarkable collection of politically provocative novels and sensational works of non-fiction reportage that were banned by the communist state from 1960 to 1986. Leading Vietnam scholar, Zinoman, resurrects the life and work of an important intellectual and author in order to reveal a neglected political project that is excluded from conventional accounts of modern Vietnamese political history. He sees Vu Trong Phung as a leading proponent of a localized republican tradition that opposed colonialism, communism, and unfettered capitalism-and that led both to the banning of his work and to the durability of his popular appeal in Vietnam today.

Contents:

Sources of Vũ Trọng Phụng's colonial republicanism

Capitalism and social reform

The question of communism

The crisis of Vietnamese sexuality

Banning Vũ Trọng Phụng.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520957091

0520957091

OCLC:

863040725