The birth of Vietnamese political journalism : Saigon, 1916-1930 / Philippe M.F. Peycam.

Author
Peycam, Philippe M. F. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
  • ©2012
Description
1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : maps

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Philippe M.F. Peycam completes the first ever English-language study of Vietnam's emerging political press and its resistance to colonialism. Published in the decade that preceded the Communist Party's founding, this journalistic phenomenon established a space for public, political contestation that fundamentally changed Vietnamese attitudes and the outlook of Southeast Asia. Peycam directly links Saigon's colonial urbanization to the creation of new modes of individual and collective political agency. To better justify their presence, French colonialists implemented a peculiar br.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Social order in the colonial city
  • 2. French Republicanism and the emergence of Saigon's public sphere
  • 3. In search of a political role (1916-1923)
  • 4. Scandals and mobilization (1923-1926)
  • 5. The limits to oppositional journalism (1926-1930)
  • Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780231528047 ((electronic book))
  • 0231528043 ((electronic book))
OCLC
797850744
Doi
  • 10.7312/peyc15850
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