Archives par mot-clé : histoire

Les “passeurs”. Portrait de groupe d’intellectuels vietnamiens dans le siècle franco-vietnamien (1858-1954)

Moussons_24[ndlr] Message de la revue Moussons : Toute l’équipe éditoriale de Moussons a le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du  dernier numéro de la revue (24)  qui propose un dossier thématique intitulé Les “passeurs”. Portrait de groupe d’intellectuels vietnamiens dans le siècle franco-vietnamien (1858-1954) réalisé sous la direction de Trinh Van Thao et Nguyen Phuong Ngoc.

 

Le siècle franco-vietnamien (1858-1954) n’avait pas laissé, au-delà des épisodes guerriers qui ont jalonné le long chemin de la révolte à la liberté, que ruines et larmes. Il reste un legs culturel à mettre au jour, à entreprendre un état des lieux d’autant plus complexe que bien souvent enfoui, refoulé sous le poids des oublis, des préjugés, et par-dessus tout, des mémoires sélectives. On le sait depuis Maurice Halbwachs, il faut se méfier de la mémoire historique, mémoire d’État qui se confond trop souvent avec la pensée unique et dont la vocation principale consiste à refouler dans les zones d’ombre des fragments entiers de mémoires collectives, plurielles et multiples, venant des minorités, des vaincus et surtout de ceux qui dérangent le bel ordre établi. Plus discrets et moins visibles que les événements historiques de grande ampleur (changement de régime, guerres et révolutions), les faits culturels peuvent pourtant exercer un effet plus durable.

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Source : Moussons

Vietnam’s concerted effort to keep control of its past

ThomasBass_DiepVienZ21_KeThuTuyetVoiCuaNuocMy[ndlr] Article de Thomas Bass sur la censure de son ouvrage The Spy Who Loved Us paru en vietnamien en RSVN sous le titre : Điệp viên Z21, Kẻ thù tuyệt vời của nước Mỹ.

Thomas A. Bass is an investigative reporter who teaches English and journalism at the State University of New York at Albany.

Five years ago I began an experiment — not of my own devising — to study censorship in Vietnam. In 2009, I signed a contract to publish one of my books in Hanoi. Called “The Spy Who Loved Us,” the book tells the story of Pham Xuan An, Vietnam’s most celebrated journalist during the Vietnam War. (He ended his career as bureau chief for Time magazine in Saigon.) Only after the war did we learn that An had received a dozen military medals as a communist spy and served as North Vietnam’s deadliest secret weapon.

One might think that a book about a “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces” would be published in Vietnam without difficulty, but nothing is published in Vietnam without being censored. For five years, I watched people nip and tuck my book. When a translation was finally published in 2014, I flew to Hanoi to meet my censors — at least the half-dozen who would talk to me. These were the good guys, the brave ones, who were willing to acknowledge the situation. Behind them stood the faceless phalanx that operates throughout Vietnamese society.

My censors, several of whom doubled as my editors and publishers, apologized for what they had to do. They hoped things would improve in the future, but as Vietnam and China throw an increasing number of journalists, bloggers and other writers in prison, the tide is flowing in the opposite direction. This is why I decided to commission an accurate translation of my book and publish side-by-side editions of both the censored and uncensored versions. These texts were released online in November, with the international organization Index on Censorship releasing more material this week.

What did the censors cut from my book?

Lire la suite : The Washington Post, 01/02/2015.

Voir aussi la publication en ligne non censurée sur le site pro&contra de Pham Thi Hoai :

Jean-Marc Binot : Le repos des guerriers. Les bordels militaires de campagne pendant la guerre d’Indochine [parution]

Binot_LeReposDesGuerriers[ndlr] Première monographie sur une dimension encore peu étudiée de la guerre d’Indochine. Paru en mars 2014. Présentation de l’éditeur.

A l’heure où la loi Marthe Richard faisait fermer les maisons closes de métropole, l’état-major de l’armée française en Indochine autorisait et même encourageait la création de bordels militaires de campagne à travers tout le territoire dont il avait la charge. Principal motif invoqué ? La lutte, à l’aide d’un encadrement sanitaire adéquat, contre les maladies vénériennes.

Souvent évoqué de façon plutôt allusive, ce phénomène n’avait jamais fait l’objet d’une étude approfondie. Documents officiels (à l’époque classés « confidentiel »), correspondances de soldats et témoignages de vétérans ont permis à Jean-Marc Binot d’en révéler l’ampleur et d’en examiner le fonctionnement. Des méthodes de recrutement à l’établissement des horaires d’ouverture, l’armée n’y perd rien de sa proverbiale rigueur…

Mais encore fallait-il s’intéresser aux prostituées elles-mêmes, à leurs origines et à la détresse matérielle et morale qui leur a fait prendre le chemin de ces établissements pas comme les autres. S’il est vrai, comme le prétendent certains, que ces Marie-Madeleine se sont improvisées infirmières au plus fort des combats et y ont gagné le surnom d’« anges de Diên Biên Phu », sans doute méritaient-elles que l’histoire leur fasse une place.

Jean-Marc Binot est journaliste, diplômé en histoire et en sciences politiques. Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont Nom de code : BRUTUS, histoire d’un réseau de la France Libre (Fayard, 2007) et Héroïnes de la Grande Guerre (Fayard, 2008).

Source : Fayard

La colonisation des corps. De l’Indochine au Vietnam [parution]

La_colonisation_des_corps[ndlr] Parution d’un ouvrage collectif dirigé par Agathe-Larcher Goscha et François Guillemot. Il est issu du colloque sur les identités corporelles au Viêt-Nam organisé à l’ENS de Lyon. Présentation de l’éditeur.

Avec les contributions de : Dinh Trong Hieu, Alain Ruscio, Agathe Larcher-Goscha, Christopher E. Goscha, Erica J. Peters, Isabelle Tracol-Huynh, Nora A. Taylor, Doan Cam Thi, Richard Quang-Anh Tran, Eric Jennings, Laurence Monnais, François Guillemot, Heonik Kwon, Francis Gendreau.

Symbolique de la tête, du ventre et des membres, poids de la gestuelle, représentations sexuelles ou anthropométriques tendant à classer cet être étrange qu’est le colonisé, fabrication d’un corps du roi conforme aux souhaits de la République française, perceptions renouvelées de l’environnement et du bien-être à travers les prescriptions de la modernité, enfin terribles effets de la guerre, corps meurtris, âmes sans repos hantant aujourd’hui encore un paysage où la tradition s’épuise à tenter d’absorber la violence du contemporain : telles sont quelques-uns des aspects dont traite ce livre, rapportant à l’Asie la thématique de l’histoire du corps désormais familière à l’Occident. De l’Indochine française au Viet Nam en guerre, plusieurs chercheurs de toutes nationalités ont été réunis pour mener à bien cette entreprise sans précédent.

François Guillemot est ingénieur de recherche à l’Institut d’Asie Orientale (CNRS / ENS de Lyon) ; ses recherches portent sur l’histoire politique et sociale du Viêt Nam contemporain. Agathe Larcher-Goscha est spécialiste de l’histoire coloniale de la péninsule indochinoise et traductrice.

Source : Éditions Vendémiaire

Communiqué de presse Colonisation des corps (PDF)

Réf. Guillemot, François & Larcher-Goscha, Agathe, La colonisation des corps. De l’Indochine au Vietnam, Paris : Éditions Vendémiaire, coll. Chroniques, 2014, 443 p.

Table des matières

Remerciements, p. 5-7

François Guillemot & Agathe Larcher-Goscha : Le Viet Nam à fleur de peau, pp. 9-27

Dinh Trong Hieu : La face, le ventre et autres symboliques du corps chez les Viet, pp. 28-60

Alain Ruscio : “Nous avons débarqué au milieu du peuple le plus étrange”, pp. 61-81

Agathe Larcher-Goscha : La guerre des représentations anthropométriques, pp. 82-126

Christopher E. Goscha : Bao Dai et Sihanouk : la fabrique indochinoise des rois coloniaux, pp. 127-175

Erica J. Peters : Manger : pratiques vietnamiennes et identités européennes, pp. 176-199

Isabelle Tracol-Huynh : Désir et répulsion : les prostituées du Tonkin, pp. 200-228

Nora A. Taylor : L’autre exotique et le moi féminin, pp. 229-245

Doan Cam Thi : Quand elles écrivent leur corps, pp. 246-263

Richard Quang-Anh Tran : Le corps homosexuel, haut lieu de l’imaginaire, pp. 264-284

Eric Jennings : Dalat ou les Alpes en Indochine, pp. 285-312

Laurence Monnais : Les remèdes du bien-être, pp. 313-342

François Guillemot : Des jeunes filles mutilées, pp. 343-392

Heonik Kwon : Portés disparus, pp. 393-414

Francis Gendreau : Dynamiques démographiques, pp. 415-435

Bibliographie sélective, pp. 436-441

Biographies des auteurs, pp. 442-443

Signalons qu’Isabelle Tracol-Huynh vient de recevoir le Prix Jeune chercheur/se de la Ville de Lyon : “Récompensée pour ses études sur la réglementation de la prostitution et le gouvernement des corps à travers le prisme des mondes extra-européens, notamment l’empire colonial français en Asie au 20ème siècle”. Isabelle Tracol-Huynh, normalienne de Lyon, a soutenu sa thèse de doctorat d’histoire sur la prostitution au Tonkin à l’Université Lumière Lyon 2, dans un laboratoire commun CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Université Lyon2 : l’Institut d’Asie Orientale.

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Misrepresenting Atrocities: “Kill Anything that Moves” and the Continuing Distortions of the War in Vietnam

Turse_KillAnythingThatMoves[ndlr] Signalement d’un CR de lecture dûment argumenté et très critique de Peter Zinoman et Gary Kulik à propos de l’ouvrage choc du journaliste Nick Turse, best seller aux Etats-Unis. Le travail du journaliste engagé confronté à la pratique historienne.

Peter Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley

Gary Kulik, former editor of “American Quarterly”

Nick Turse, Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. New York: Picador, 2013. 416 pp. $30 (cloth); $17 (paper); $10 (e-book).

Article Preview: While recounting a punishing accumulation of atrocity stories, Kill Anything That Moves advances four relatively straightforward arguments. First, it asserts that this grim dimension of the Vietnam War was ignored at the time, has been neglected in the scholarship, and is today forgotten in popular memory.  Second, it claims that American atrocities were pervasive in Vietnam, perpetrated on a massive scale by every military unit, in every theater of battle, during every period of the war. Third, it contends that the proliferation of atrocities and war crimes was largely caused by command policies devised at the highest levels of the U.S. military and government. And fourth, as its subtitle indicates, it suggests that the atrocious record of the U.S. military in Vietnam reveals both the “true nature of the war” (16) and the “true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering” (262) that it left in its wake.

In addition to being untrue, these arguments point to the isolation of Turse’s approach from current trends in the historical study of military violence against civilians. For example, most recent work on military atrocities—such as John Horne and Alan Kramer’s magisterial German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial (2001)—insist that primary and secondary sources on the topic must be treated with special care since they are notoriously vulnerable to politicization and distortion. Turse’s misleading estimate of the size and significance of the existing literature on Vietnam War atrocities flies in the face of this advice. As we will show, academics, lawyers, journalists, activists, and creative artists have been agonizing over American atrocities and war crimes in Vietnam for almost fifty years…

Liam Kelley: Report on the Engaging With Vietnam [6th Conference]

[ndlr] Compte-rendu de la 6e Conférence Engaging with Vietnam qui s’est déroulée les 6 et 7 novembre à l’Université d’Oregon aux Etats-Unis en présence des meilleurs spécialistes du Viêt-Nam. Le Compte-rendu, rédigé par le chercheur Liam C. Kelley, a été publié initialement sur la liste des abonnés de VSG. Nous remercions l’auteur pour son aimable autorisation.

EngagingWithVietnam

While everything is still fresh in my mind, I thought that I would report on the Engaging With Vietnam – An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference that was held last week at the University of Oregon. The Engaging With Vietnam initiative was founded in 2009 by Phan Le Ha (then at Monash University, now at the University of Hawaii). This past conference was the sixth time that this conference has been held, and the first time that it has been held in the continental US (previous conferences have been held in Vietnam, Australia, and Hawaii).

The Engaging With Vietnam conference currently enjoys the continuing support of the University of Hawaii, but it partners each year with another supporting university. For this sixth conference, Tuong Vu of the University of Oregon served as a co-organizer, and the University of Oregon generously co-sponsored and hosted the conference.

The Engaging With Vietnam conference has created a niche as a “mid-sized” conference. It is big enough to be interdisciplinary and to deal with multiple topics, but small enough so that people from different disciplines can actually interact and learn from each other. Further, the format of the conference is somewhat unique in that it mixes several keynote sessions (which all of the conference participants are encouraged to attend) with breakout sessions. The keynote speakers are encouraged to address the theme of the conference, which this year was “Frontiers and Peripheries: Vietnam Deconstructed and Reconnected,” and the idea is that by bringing people together several times over the course of the conference, a “dialog” can be created between the disciplines, and that ideas that are presented during the keynote sessions can be referred to and brought into play in the breakout sessions.

I would like to report briefly here on the keynote sessions (I obviously could not attend simultaneous breakout sessions, and therefore, it would be unfair for me to only report on the ones I attended).

The first day had an emphasis on historical scholarship. The first keynote session featured Chris Goscha and Tuong Vu. Chris Goscha spoke about the new historical survey of modern Vietnamese history that he is writing, while Tuong Vu presented his own narrative of the Vietnamese past. Both of these scholars presented what one might call “counter narratives” to the way that Vietnamese history has long been presented in both English and Vietnamese language histories.

Later in the first day there was another panel that focused more specifically on the 1950s and 1960s featuring Peter Zinoman, Nu-Anh Tran and Nguyen Tuan Cuong. Peter Zinoman re-examined the Nhan Van Giai Pham affair from the perspective of sources that he recently discovered in the archives. Nu-Anh Tran examined the anticommunist narrative that emerged in South Vietnam in the 1950s. And Nguyen Tuan Cuong discussed Nguyen Dang Thuc’s promotion of Confucianism in the context of decolonization in South Vietnam between 1955 and 1975.

The second day began with a keynote session on contemporary issues. Eric Harms presented his research on the new urban zone of Phu My Huong. Kimberly Hoang presented a paper that examined ways in which different aspects of the sex industry in Vietnam connect to perceptions of Asian ascendancy and Western decline. And Angie Ngoc Tran looked comparatively at the labor migrations of Vietnamese, Khmer and Cham to Malaysia.

Later on the second day there was a keynote session on education. Dang Van Huan analyzed why it is that there has been a lack of radical change in higher education even though many conditions for change exist. Phan Le Ha, meanwhile, examined the position of Western universities in Vietnam, and highlighted some of the contradictions surrounding the promotion of “Western education.”

The second day then ended with a presentation by Janet Hoskins on the role of Victor Hugo in the Cao Dai religion, and a presentation by William Chapman on the French archaeologists of the EFEO as “adjuncts of empire.”

These comments here of course do not do justice to the complexity of the ideas that were presented. Nonetheless, I hope that these brief comments will at least make it clear that these were stimulating and enlightening presentations, and that these scholars all presented ideas that we can certainly say are on the “frontier” of our knowledge about Vietnam.

There were more keynote speakers this year who presented on historical topics than has been the case in the past. Next year the conference will hopefully be held in Vietnam, and there will likely be a different emphasis in the keynote sessions at that conference, as this conference does not aim to repeat itself, but instead, to always welcome change.

As one of the co-organizers, I would like to thank once again the other co-organizers, Phan Le Ha and Tuong Vu, as well as the supporting universities, the University of Oregon and the University of Hawaii.

Finally, I look forward to seeing many of the people on this list [VSG] at a future Engaging With Vietnam conference.

The full program can be found here:

http://www.engagingwithvietnam.com/content/about-engaging-vietnam

 

Liam Kelley (University of Hawaii at Manoa).

Symposium on the History of Vietnam’s Southern Resistance [Wilson Center]

[ndlr] Signalement d’un Symposium sur l’histoire de la résistance vietnamienne au sud du Viêt-Nam entre 1945 et 1975, discussion autour de cette collection (4 vol.) publiée à Hanoi en 2010 et 2011. Une belle initiative du Wilson Center à Washington DC.

LichSuNamBoKhangChienLịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến (History of the Southern Resistance)

The Wilson Center’s Cold War International History Project (CWIHP), in cooperation with the National Security Archive, has organized an online symposium reviewing the massive four volume collection Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến (History of the Southern Resistance). Compiled and edited by a steering committee composed of high-ranking cadres and government officials, and a team of historians and party leaders, Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến documents the resistance movement in South Vietnam from 1954 through 1975 [ndlr : 1945-1975].

Symposium participants include Pierre Asselin (Hawaii Pacific University), Shawn McHale (George Washington University), Merle Pribbenow (Independent Scholar), Sophie Quinn-Judge (Temple University), and Nu-Anh Tran (University of Connecticut). Nguyen Trong Xuat (Editorial Board of Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến) and Lutz Baehr respond to some of the issues and questions raised by the reviewers and provide some additional context to the publication. John Prados (National Security Archive) frames the issues and arguments in an introduction to the reviews.

The views expressed in the reviews of and responses to Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến are the authors’ own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Cold War International History Project.

Lire la suite : Wilson Center

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Réf. :

  • Hội đồng chỉ đạo biên soạn lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến. Tập 1 : 1945-1954, Hà Nội : Nhà xuất bản Chính trị quốc gia, 2010, 1 vol. (956 p.). Cote IAO : 605V.11/7.1
  • Hội đồng chỉ đạo biên soạn lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, Lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến. Tập 1 : 1945-1954, Hà Nội : Nhà xuất bản Chính trị quốc gia, 2010, 1 vol. (1666 p.). Cote IAO : 605V.11/7.2
  • Hội đồng chỉ đạo biên soạn lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, Biên niên sự kiện lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến : 1945-1975, Nhà xuất bản Chính trị quốc gia, 2011, 1 vol. (1042 p.). Cote IAO : 605V.11/9
  • Hội đồng chỉ đạo biên soạn lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến, Những vấn đề chính yếu trong lịch sử Nam bộ kháng chiến : 1945-1975, Nhà xuất bản Chính trị quốc gia, 2011, 1 vol. (1319 p.). Cote IAO : 605V.11/10