Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory

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Index Pages with maps and illustrations are indicated in boldface type. 249 Abd el Krim, Mohamed ben, 91 Abuza, Zachary, 141 All China General Labor Union, 92 An Giang Propaganda Commission, 144 Animism, 174 Anticolonialism, 90–93, 154 Appropriation, 166 Ashmar, Sheikh Mohammed al-, 208n6 Asian Relations Conference, New Delhi (1947), 52 August Revolution (1945), 33, 36, 50– 51, 58 Ban Me Thuot, 36 Bao Dai, 53–54, 62–63, 182 Ba Son arsenal: early history of, 87, 89, 211n6; maps, 97, 99; number of workers at, 219n71; strikes (1925, 1926, mid-1930s), 89 Ba Son arsenal strike (1925): anticolonial battles preceding, 90–93; Black Sea Mutiny story parallels with, 120; current attitudes toward, 126; disputes over images of, 120–24; government communiqués on, 103; historiographical disputes over, 119– 24; media reporting of, 93–96, 98– 104, 112–13; proletarian internationalism as possible motive, 110, 112–13, 191–92; retold as success, 117–18; start of, 89, 96–97; Ton’s official biography on, 152, 156–58; Ton’s story of, 84, 90; worker complaints , 95–96. See also Jules Michelet in Saigon Bay Cop, 106–7, 109 Binh Xuyen gang, 63, 204n5 Biographical writing in Viet Nam, 164 Black Sea Mutiny: Ba Son arsenal strike parallels with, 120; Chinese view of, 59–61; history of, 5–11; maps of region of, 7, 73; Marty account of, 12, 45; naval units involved in, 11– 12; as part of internationalist revolution , 56–58; story as myth, 80–84, 190–91; Ton renunciation of Sevastopol story, 78–79, 81–82, 119–20, 155, 191; Ton’s official biography on, 151–52; as viewed by China, 59–61; as viewed by Soviets, 60–61, 63–64, 84, 211n42; Vo Nhai meeting story of, 3–5, 11, 26, 47–48, 76. See also Red flag-raising stories Bollaert, Emile, 53 Brimmell, J. H., 55 Britain, 6, 34, 92 Bui Bang Doan, 39–40 Bulgaria, 141 Busch, William, 210n35 Calling the spirits, 175, 188 Cambodia, 151, 197n1 Cardenas, Lazaro, 208n6 Censorship, 93, 95 Chavigny, Henry, 213n24 Chen, King C., 64–65 Chen Yun, 60, 208n2 Chesneaux, Jean, 62, 161 Chiang Kai-shek, 51 China, People’s Republic of: Black Sea Mutiny viewed by, 59–61; DRVN relations, 51, 53, 151, 158, 183; historic attacks on Viet Nam, 174, 179; Maoism in DRVN, 65; Soviet relations with, 158–59 China, Republic of: civil war, 51; DRVN relations with, 54; foreign intervention (1925), 92–93, 103, 114, 215n57. See also Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 51, 54, 59, 61 Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD), 38, 51–52, 59, 91–92, 107 La Cloche Fêlée, 93, 114, 116 Club of Former Resistance Fighters (CFRF), 140–41, 145, 169 Cochinchina: French crackdown on activists (1929), xvii; map, 37; as part of Viet Nam, 197n1; pro-French delegation to Paris (1946), 45; Viet Minh withdrawal from, 34–36; VRYL organizing in, xv Cochinchinese Labor Union, xvi Cognacq, Maurice, 93–94 Cold War, 49–51, 54–55, 185, 195 Colonna, J., 107–9 Comintern (Communist Internationale), 114, 118–19, 133 Commemmorative Area for Ton Duc Thang, 140 Communist Information Bureau (Cominform), 54–55, 76 Communist Party of Indochina, 127, 133, 139–40 Compagnie des Eaux et Électricité de l’Indochine, 95 Complete Historical Records of Dai Viet, 176 Comrade Ton Duc Thang, an Exemplary Staunch Communist Fighter (official biography): Ba Son arsenal strike in, 152, 156–58; contents of, 151–52; lack of private persona for Ton in, 163–65; motives for publication of, 153, 164; portrayal of Ton’s life in, 153–62, 193; as representing Northern views, 149–50; retention of Sevastopol story in, 155–56; revolutionary origins of Ton, 153–55; Ton as example, 166–67 Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT)(France), 130, 143–44 Conference of Southeast Asian Youth, Calcutta (1948), 56 Confucianism, 179–84, 186 Cong Luan Bao, 113 Congress for the Foundation of the General Red Labor Union of Bac Ky, 127 Constitutionalist Party, 93, 95–96, 101 Containment policy, 51 Containment textual movement in biography, 164 Corruption, 94 Courthial, 95–96, 98, 102, 105–6, 108– 11, 115–17 Crimea, 6, 8, 10 Czechoslovakia, 141 Dandolo, 102–3 Dang Hoa, 143–45 Dang Lao Dong (DLD), 43, 60, 64–65 Dang Van Sam, 131 D’Argenlieu, Thierry, 43 Death, 166–67 Decolonization, 49 De Gaulle, Charles, 205n14 Democratic socialists, 10–11 Devilliers, Philippe, 61–62, 64, 204n5 Dien Bien Phu, 62 Dimitrov...