Archives par mot-clé : Viêt-Nam

Kim Huynh : Vietnam as if… Tales of youth, love and destiny

[ndlr] Parution d’un récit romancé de Kim Huynh sur les espoirs de la jeunesse vietnamienne à travers cinq portraits et destins différents. Présentation de l’éditeur.

Vietnam as if…

Tales of youth, love and destiny

Kim Huynh

Vietnam as if… follows five young people who have moved from the countryside to the city. Their dramatic everyday lives illuminate some of the most pressing issues in Vietnam today: ‘The Sticky Rice Seller’ explores gender roles; ‘The Ball Boy’ is all about the struggles of sexual and ethnic minorities; ‘The Professional’ examines relations between rich and poor; ‘The Goalkeeper’ delves into politics and ideology; and ‘The Student’ reflects upon family and faith. The stories also reboot several classics of Vietnamese literature for the twenty-first century, including ‘Floating Dumplings’ by feminist poet Ho Xuan Huong, Vu Trong Phung’s satire of French colonialism Dumb Luck, Nguyen Du’s epic account of fate and sacrifice ‘The Tale of Kieu’, and the proclamations of Ho Chi Minh. These novellas reveal the deepest sentiments of Vietnamese youth as they – like youth everywhere – come of age, fall in love and contest their destiny.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vietnamasif

In 2011 Kim Huynh returned to Vietnam, having left more than three decades earlier. He had few plans other than to experience as much of his birthplace as possible. That year he came into contact with a wide range of people and took on many trades. Kim drank and dined with government officials, went on pilgrimages with corporate tycoons and marched in the streets against foreign aggression. He sold sticky rice, was a tennis player and also a ball boy, attended all manner of rituals and celebrations, eavesdropped on people in cafés and restaurants, and went back to the classroom as both a student and a teacher. Rich in detail and broad in scope, these tales capture Kim’s experiences and imaginings of Vietnam as if….

ISBN 9781925022308 (Print version) $25.00 (GST inclusive)
ISBN 9781925022315 (Online)

Source : ANU Press

Image “à la une” : © Vietnam as if (Facebook).

Vietnam’s Boat People Mark Anniversary With Return to Refugee Camps [RFA]

[ndlr] A lire sur le site de Radio Free Asia. Retour commémoratif à Poulo Bidong et sur les anciens lieux de mémoire (camps et cimetières) des boat people vietnamiens.

A group of former “boat people” who fled persecution by the communist government in Hanoi  at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 recently toured resettlement camps in Southeast Asia to mark their journey to sanctuary 40 years earlier, and to honor those who were not so lucky.

The group set off from Australia on Aug. 20 as part of a “Back to Freedom” boat tour organized by the Archive of Vietnamese Boat People to sites in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand—four key destinations for refugees seeking asylum after the conflict.

During a stop on Malaysia’s Bidong island, members of the group shared stories as a bus drove them to the former site of one of the largest refugee camps to house boat people in Southeast Asia before they were resettled to Western countries.

An island of less than one square mile (260 hectares) in area, Bidong was designated the principal refugee camp in Malaysia in August 1978 and prepped to receive some 4,500 asylum seekers, but by June the following year had a population of more than 40,000.

Conditions in the camp were cramped and unsanitary, while food and water had to be imported from the mainland by barge, and many refugees were forced to wait years on the island before being resettled.

But despite the grim state of the island camp, nearly 800,000 boat people fled Vietnam between the end of the war and the late 1990s to Malaysia and other regional countries, with as many as 400,000 perishing in the attempt, according to estimates by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

Lire la suite : RFA, 04/09/2015. Reported by RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Translated by KaLynh Ngo. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.

Image “à la une” : Boat People / Wikipédia

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Le rassemblement national des scouts dispersé par la police [EDA]

[ndlr] Une information divulguée par l’agence d’information des Missions Etrangères de Paris. A lire sur le site Eglises d’Asie.

VietnamScoutJamboree_2015Le 16 juillet dernier, un millier de scouts de tous âges, venus de tout le Vietnam, se préparaient à participer à un jamboree national dans le sud du pays. Avant même le début de la cérémonie d’ouverture, ils ont été dispersés par la Sécurité publique locale.

Destiné à marquer la commémoration du 85e anniversaire de l’introduction du mouvement scout dans le pays, l’événement avait été soigneusement préparé. Selon les premiers communiqués, il devait avoir lieu dans la province de Binh Duong, du 16 au 19 juillet 2015. A la dernière heure, en raison, semble-t-il, de l’attitude hostile des autorités locales, le lieu du rassemblement avait été changé et fixé dans une zone touristique de la province du Dông Nai

Lire la suite : Eglises d’Asie, 31/08/2015.

“[…] seuls mouvements de jeunesse véritablement autorisés sont ceux qui dépendent d’une façon ou d’une autre du Parti communiste vietnamien”, La Croix, 31/08/2015.

Vo Trung Dung : Vietnam et Etats-Unis – une nouvelle ère stratégique ?

[ndlr] A la suite de la visite historique du Secrétaire général du PCV (Nguyen Phu Trong) à la Maison Blanche, lire l’analyse de Vo Trung Dung.

Les relations entre Hanoi et Washington, ennemis d’hier, entrent dans une nouvelle ère. Elle a débuté officiellement au lendemain de la visite d’Etat qualifiée d’historique du secrétaire général du parti communiste vietnamien Nguyen Phu Trong à Washington, le 7 juillet dernier. Barak Obama l’a reçu dans le bureau ovale de la Maison Blanche comme un chef d’Etat. Au-delà du symbole, l’enjeu est la redéfinition des rapports de forces en Asie-Pacifique, avec la Chine au centre du jeu.

Lire la suite : Asialyst, 26/08/2015.

Image “à la une” : Le secrétaire général du Parti communiste vietnamien Nguyen Phu Trong reçu par le président américain Barack Obama dans le Bureau Oval à la Maison Blanche, le 7 juillet 2015 à Washintgon. © SAUL LOEB / AFP.

John Kleinen : Vietnam. One Party State and the Mimicry of the Civil Society

[ndlr] Une nouvelle étude de John Kleinen vient de paraître, document téléchargeable en ligne sur le site de l’IRASEC : “Vietnam : L’Etat-parti et les faux-semblants de la société civile”.

Are the issues of civil society, “good governance”, and the role of NGOs in Vietnam part of a discursive discourse that is linked to a growing development industry in which development studies and economics dominate? Kleinen questions these issues based upon longitudinal research in Vietnam since the early 1990s. In this study, an effort is made to explain the concrete interactions between authorities of the Vietnamese one-party state and its citizens by introducing an attitude of participants to conceal their real intentions with the intent to disguise their actions in order to obtain benefits for their own. Using the concept of mimicry the author tries to grasp what it means to live in a society where political and economic life is dominated by elite groups and were social change is coming from different directions.

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Vietnam

One-Party State and the Mimicry of Civil Society

By John Kleinen

[Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research (AISSR) of the University of Amsterdam]

« Occasional Paper », Investigation Series n°03, August 2015, 118 pages.

ISBN: 978-616-7571-25-6

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1
– The political system: state-party relations reconsidered
– Changing state, party and society relations

Chapter 2
– NGOs in Northern Vietnam: between public and private domains

Chapter 3
– Constructing civil society? A tale of two villages

Conclusions

References

The author: John Kleinen is a retired associate professor in anthropology and history at the University of Amsterdam. He is specialized on Vietnamese studies and visual anthropology.

Cách mạng tháng Tám – La Révolution d’Août (tract de propagande)

[ndlr] A l’occasion du 70e anniversaire de La Révolution d’Août, événement historique fondateur de l’État-nation communiste mais encore discuté aujourd’hui dans les milieux intellectuels, Mémoires d’Indochine présente cette fresque commémorative, véritable “storytelling” du processus révolutionnaire menant à l’indépendance proclamée le 2 septembre 1945 par Ho Chi Minh. Le document d’origine (déniché aux ANOM) est un tract de propagande édité à la fin de l’année 1945 ou en 1946 en RDVN peut-être lors du premier anniversaire de la révolution (mais nous n’en avons pas la certitude).

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“Après l’avoir regardé, veuillez bien transmettre ce tract à d’autres”

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Source : © Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer (ANOM). Photographies : FG.

Sầu Lẻ Bóng – Hoàng Oanh [Chagrin d’une ombre esseulée par Hoang Oanh]

[ndlr] Ouverture du jukebox de Mémoires d’Indochine.

Sầu Lẻ Bóng

Người ơi khi cố quên là khi lòng nhớ thêm
Dòng đời là chuỗi tiếc nhớ
Mơ vui là lúc ngàn đắng cay… xé tâm hồn
Tàn đêm tôi khóc khi trời mưa buồn hắt hiu
Lòng mình thầm nhớ dĩ vãng
Đau thương từ lúc vừa bước chân
Vào đường yêu

Đêm ấy mưa rơi nhiều
Giọt mưa tan tác mưa mùa ngâu
Tiễn chân người đi
Buồn che đôi mắt thấm ướt khi biệt ly
Nghe tim mình giá buốt
Hồi còi xé nát không gian
Xót thương vô vàn
Nhìn theo bóng tàu dần khuất trong màn êm

Mùa thu thương nhớ bao lần đi về có đôi
Mà người còn vắng bóng mãi
Hay duyên nồng thắm ngày ấy nay… đã phai rồi

Từ lâu tôi biết câu thời gian là thuốc tiên
Đời việc gì đến sẽ đến
Những ai bạc bẽo mình vẫn không… đành lòng quên

Những ai bạc bẽo mình vẫn không… đành lòng quên

Image “à la une” : Hoang Oanh, photo dédicacée sur le site de Hoang Trong.