Duy Tan and Eurasians

From christina.firpo@gmail.com Fri Jul 8 17:00:09 2005

Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:59:47 -0700

From: Christina Firpo <christina.firpo@gmail.com>

To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: [Vsg] Duy Tan and Eurasians

Dear List,

I found a 1937 reference from a French administrator in Cochinchine about a 1931 call from Duy Tan to "the revolutionaries" to work with Eurasians. Does anyone know about this call? Know anyone who works on Duy Tan? Or at least point in a direction to find his call?

Judging by the rest of this document the writer doesn't distinguish between groups of revolutionaries. And I haven't seen reference to Duy Tan's call in the newspapers--Vn or French-- of 1931. What would have been the avenues of communication available to Duy Tan in 1931 and how would a low level French administrator know about this call? (unless he was surete before?) And do you know if Duy Tan had a long standing interest in the Eurasians?

Thanks in advance.

Best,

Christina

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Christina Firpo

PhD Candidate

Southeast Asian History

University of California- Los Angeles

From christina.firpo@gmail.com Fri Jul 8 17:05:20 2005

Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 17:05:01 -0700

From: Christina Firpo <christina.firpo@gmail.com>

To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: [Vsg] correction

Excuse me, too many late nights of writing. I meant Cuong De sent the call out in 1931

I'm also reading up on the Duy Tan stuff for something unrelated. Again, my apologies for the mistake.

Christina

Christina Firpo

PhD Candidate

Southeast Asian History

University of California- Los Angeles

From liam@hawaii.edu Fri Jul 8 21:32:41 2005

Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:32:22 +0700

From: Liam C Kelley <liam@hawaii.edu>

Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

To: Christina Firpo <christina.firpo@gmail.com>, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: Re: [Vsg] correction

Dear Christina and List,

The following book has been listed on Amazon as "not yet in print" for a long time now. If it exists I would appreciate hearing where someone found it. In any case, it's author would probably be a could person to consult about Cuong De I would suspect.

A Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan: Prince Cuong De, 1882-1951 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) by My-Van Tran

Liam Kelley

U. of Hawaii

From sinh.vinh@ualberta.ca Fri Jul 8 23:48:56 2005

Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:48:38 -0600

From: Sinh Vinh <sinh.vinh@ualberta.ca>

Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

To: 'Christina Firpo' <christina.firpo@gmail.com>, 'Vietnam Studies Group' <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: RE: [Vsg] correction

Hi Christina,

Throughout the years I have read different literatures on Cuong De in Vietnamese, French, English, and Japanese, but I have not seen anything related to his call to the "revolutionaries to work with the Eurasians". I can only speculate a few things to put things, hopefully, in perspective.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Prince/Marquis Cuong De was in frequent contact with the Vietnamese émigrés in China, including Communist/Marxist-oriented political activists such as Nguyen Ai Quoc. We know that the year 1931 marked the high tide of the Soviet-Nghe Tinh uprising in Vietnam. The revolutionaries in this context might imply "Communist/Marxist revolutionaries". Cuong De was not known to be a far-sighted politician; he practically opposed the French colonial rule almost at any cost.

In sum, what you are looking for might have been just a stratagem that Cuong De recommended "the revolutionaries" to adopt at that given time inside Vietnam against the colonial authorities.

Best,

VS

From Edward.G.Miller@dartmouth.edu Sat Jul 9 01:27:21 2005

Date: 09 Jul 2005 04:26:30 EDT

From: Edward G. Miller <Edward.G.Miller@dartmouth.edu>

Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: Re: [Vsg] correction

Dear Christina:

In addition to the Tran My Van book, you should also check Cuong De's memoirs: Cuo^.c DDo+'i Ca'ch Ma.ng (Saigon, 1957).

I don't have a copy at hand, but if memory serves, CD dictated this text towards the tail end of World War II, when it seemed like the Japanese were finally about to send him back to Vietnam and install him on the throne. I expect he would have highlighted any proclamation(s) he made in earlier decades in order to shore up his revolutionary credentials.

Cheers,

Ed