On Our Own Strength : : The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam / / Martina Thucnhi Nguyen.

On Our Own Strength examines the political activities of the most influential intellectual movement in interwar French-occupied Vietnam. The far-reaching work of the Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tự Lực Văn Đoàn) included applied design, urban reform, fashion, literature, journalism, and cartoons; it...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 28 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Internal Revolutions, 1932–1936
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Becoming “Self-Reliant”
  • Chapter Two. Laughter as Social Corrective
  • Chapter Three. Wearing the Nation
  • PART II. External Revolution, 1936–1941
  • Introduction
  • Chapter Four. Political Ideology and Postcolonial Vision
  • Chapter Five. Political Activism
  • Chapter Six. The League of Light
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Dramatis Personae
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author