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Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies CHARLES KEYES, VICENTE RAFAEL, AND LAURIE SEARS, SERIES EDITORS Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies These new perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies reconsider traditional relationships among scholars, texts, archives, field sites, and subject matter . Volumes in the series feature inquiries into historiography, critical ethnography, colonialism and postcolonialism, nationalism and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, science and technology, politics and society, and literature, drama, and film. This scholarship sheds light on shifting contexts and contests over forms of knowing and modes of action that inform cultural politics and shape histories of modernity. Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of Memory by Christoph Giebel Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism TON DUC THANG AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY AND MEMORY CHRISTOPH GIEBEL UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Seattle & London in association with SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY PRESS © 2004 by the University of Washington Press Printed in the United States of America 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy , recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published simultaneously in the United States and Singapore. University of Washington Press, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145 www.washington.edu/uwpress Singapore University Press, NUS Publishing 3, Arts Link, Ground floor AS3, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Singapore 117569 Fax: 65-6774 0652 supbooks@nus.edu.sg www.nus.edu.sg/npu ISBNs 9971-69-308-9 cloth 9971-69-309-7 paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Giebel, Christoph. Imagined ancestries of Vietnamese communism : Ton Duc Thang and the politics of history and memory / Christoph Giebel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-295-98428-7 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 0-295-98429-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Tôn, Dú’c Thă´ng, 1888–1980. 2. Communism—Vietnam—History. 3. Vietnam—History—20th century. 4. Vietnam—Historiography. 5. Presidents—Vietnam (Democratic Republic)—Biography. I. Title: Ton Duc Thang and the politics of history and memory. II. Title. DS560.72.T66G54 2004 2004041953 The paper used in this publication is acid-free and recycled from 20 percent post-consumer and at least 50 percent pre-consumer waste. It meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984. FOR MY TEACHERS, WITH DEEP RESPECT AND GRATITUDE ...

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