Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village, 1925-2006 / / Hy Van Luong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Luong, Hy Van,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 16 b&w images, 5 maps, 2 charts

Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village examines both continuity and change over eight decades in a small rural village deep in the North Vietnamese countryside. Son-Duong, a community near the Red River, experienced firsthand the ravages of French colonialism and the American war, as well as the socialist revolution and Vietnam's recent reintegration into the global market economy. In this revised and expanded edition of his 1992 book, Revolution in the Village, Hy V. Luong draws on newly available archival documents in Hanoi, narratives by villagers, and three field seasons from the late 1980s to 2006. He situates his finely drawn village portrait within the historical framework of the Vietnamese revolution and the recent reforms in Vietnam.The richness of the oral testimony of surviving villagers enables the author to follow them throughout political and economic upheavals, compiling a wealth of original data as they actively restructure their daily lives. In his analysis of the implications of these data for theoretical models of agrarian transformation, Luong argues that local traditions have played a major role in shaping villagers' responses to colonialism, socialist policies, and the global market economy. His work, spanning eight decades of sociocultural change, will interest students and scholars of the Vietnamese revolution, agrarian politics, peasant societies, French colonialism, and socialist transformation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Units of Measure -- Introduction -- Part I. Historical Events and Village Structure in Colonial Northern Vietnam -- 1. Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1884-1930: A Microscopic Perspective on Historical Events -- 2. Village Structure in Revolutionary Processes, 1925-1930 -- 3. In the Name of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" -- Part II. The Revolution in the Village -- 4. The Rise of Marxist Power -- 5. The Revolution in the Village, 1954-1988 -- Part III. Market Economy and Local Dynamics -- 6. The Market Economy and Socioeconomic Differentiation -- 7. The Intensification of Social and Ritual Life -- 8. The Restructuring of Local Governance -- 9. Theoretical Reflections -- Appendix 1: Regulations on Cultured Life in Hamlet 5 -- Appendix 2: Chronology -- Appendix 3: Significant People in Sơn-Dương Village and Anticolonial History -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author