The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization

Cover
Advance praise page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Structure of the Book
1 The Engines of National Shame and Indignation
National Shame
National Indignation
Part I The Colonial Condition
2 Phan Bội Châu’s Nationalist Groundwork
A Brief Biography: Phan Bội Châu
French Conquest
Cần Vương
Japan’s Shining Example
A Brief Detour: Colonizers from the North
Indignation
The Two Phans
Colonial Reform?
3 Phan Chu Trinh’s Democratic Confucianism
A Brief Biography: Phan Chu Trinh
Democratic Confucianism
Confucian Democracy
Mutual Enhancement
The Goal: Confucianism
A Lack of Confucianism Attributable to Autocracy
Western Ethics
Liberalism and Democracy as a Means to Confucianism
Liberalism
Democracy
The Way to National Dignity (Confucianism)
Conclusion: How to Learn from Others
Part II What Shall We Do with Tradition?
4 Nguyễn An Ninh’s Tagorean Call
A Brief Biography: Nguyễn An Ninh
Radicalism
National Shame from a Sense of Intellectual Inadequacy
National Shame as Motivation
Conclusion
5 Phạm Quỳnh’s Cultural Resistance
Some Colonial Reforms
A Brief Biography: Phạm Quỳnh
The Problem of Moral Malaise and the Solution of Cultural Assertion
The Problem of Domination and the Solution of Harmony
Part III Revolution and Its Discontents
6 Hồ Chí Minh’s Rehumanizing Blueprint
A Brief Biography: Hồ Chí Minh
Part One: A Critic of Dehumanization
Part Two: An Architect of Rehumanization
Part Three: Insights for Theorists
7 Nguyễn Mạnh Tường’s Montaignean Solace
A Brief Biography: Nguyễn Mạnh Tường
Fallout from the Land Reform
An Excommunicated
Anti-intellectualism
Paranoia
Logomachy
Conformity
Conclusion
Phan Bội Châu
Phan Chu Trinh
Nguyễn An Ninh
Phạm Quỳnh
Hồ Chí Minh
Nguyễn Mạnh Tường
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Conclusion
Index