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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Philippe Peycam (International Institute of Asian Studies)Publisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9780231158503ISBN 10: 0231158505 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 01 May 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Maps Introduction Part 1. The Origins of Saigon's Public Sphere 1. Social Order in the Colonial City 2. French Republicanism and the Emergence of Saigon's Public Sphere Part 2. The Newspaper Village as a Political Force 3. In Search of a Political Role (1916-1923) 4. Scandals and Mobilization (1923-1926) 5. The Limits to Oppositional Journalism (1926-1030) Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsPhilippe Peycam's French Republicanism and the Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism takes on the topic of print capitalism and the growth of Vietnamese nationalism in colonial Saigon. The main argument is that, while the peculiar brand of imperialism introduced by the French, what Peycam calls republican colonialism, opened the way for a combative western-style press, it was the strong Vietnamese desire for autonomy that animated this sphere and took control of it away from the French. Peycam concludes that the repressive measures taken to regain control of Saigon's newspaper village in the late 1920s eventually doomed it to irrelevance, as Vietnamese politics became more polarized and the anti-colonial forces moved underground. Peycam's vivid account makes a unique contribution to contemporary Vietnamese history and Colonial Studies. Until now, nothing of this scope has been attempted in English. Previous studies of the Vietnamese press have focused on the communist newspaper La Lutte and less systematic samplings of French-sanctioned publications. Peycam gives us portraits of writers, publishers and editors who for months or years put out popular, often financially viable, newspapers to challenge the status quo. Peycam makes judicious use of the reports of the French security police to bring these men and their peculiar world of French idealism mixed with colonial hypocrisy to life. His portrait of the rapidly-changing society of French Indochina's major entrepot brings out the hybrid nature of Saigon politics with fascinating detail. -- Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University This book is logically organized, convincingly argued and well written.There simply is nothing like it in English, French, or Vietnamese. -- Hue-Tam Ho Tai, author of Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon Philippe M. F. Peycam's vivid account makes a unique contribution to contemporary Vietnamese history and colonial studies. Until now, nothing of this scope has been attempted in English. Previous studies of the Vietnamese press have focused on the communist newspaper La Lutte and less systematic samplings of French-sanctioned publications. Peycam instead gives us portraits of writers, publishers, and editors who for months and years put out popular, often financially viable, newspapers to challenge the status quo. He makes judicious use of the reports of the French security police and brings these men and their peculiar mix of French idealism and colonial hypocrisy to life. His portrait of the rapidly changing society of French Indochina's major entrepot emphasizes the hybrid nature of Saigon politics with fascinating detail. -- Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University, author of <i>Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years</i> a welcome addition to the literature on the development of journalism and its role in identity formation and nationalist resistance in Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and the colonized world generally. -- Mark W. McLeod * American Historical Review * Philippe Peycam brings this story alive for today's readers... -- David G. Marr * Southeast Asian Studies * Well-researched and fact-filled book -- Dr. Erik Harms * Southeast Asia Research * Historians of Vietnam will find in the volume abundant theoretical and documentary resources for making sense of the bewildering economic, social, and political changes that swept through French Indochina in the early twentieth century. * New Mandala * Author InformationPhilippe M. F. Peycam is a School of Oriental and African Studies-trained historian working as director of the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden, Netherlands. He spent ten years in Cambodia as founding director of the international academic and educational organization, Center for Khmer Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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