Anti-colonial resistance in Paris

From: Ky-Phong Tran <ky@frequentwind.com>

Reply-To: Ky-Phong Tran <ky@frequentwind.com>, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

To: Vsg@u.washington.edu

Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 1:35 PM

Dear VSG,

My name is Ky-Phong Tran and I'm a first-time e-mailer, long time peruser. I'm a graduate student at UC Riverside and write about the Vietnamese diaspora. I am looking for resources about resistance movements centered in Paris, both pre and post WWII. The activities could be solely Vietnamese endeavors, SE Asian, or Afro-Asian. I've found some information from the discussion on Afro-Asian movements, but more resources would be of much help.

Thank you all; it's good to be here.

Ky-Phong

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From: Hue-Tam Ho Tai <hhtai@fas.harvard.edu>

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To: Ky-Phong Tran <ky@frequentwind.com>, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 3:47 PM

Look up works by Pierre Brocheux, Daniel Hémery, David Marr and myself. Also biographies of Ho Chi Minh and of Phan Chu Trinh. The French colonial archives are a rich source of information. If you are working on the Vietnamese diaspora, there were many Vietnamese in France who were not part of the anti-colonial networks. Many were sailors and workers (some since they were drafted for WWI).

Hue-Tam Ho Tai

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From: Nu-Anh Tran <tran_n_a@yahoo.com>

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To: Ky-Phong Tran <ky@frequentwind.com>, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Date: Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 7:28 AM

You might also consider Scott McConnell's _Leftward

Journey_.

Nu-Anh

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From: Daniel C. Tsang <dtsang@uci.edu>

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

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

Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:39 PM

Here is an additional title of interest in this thread:

La question coloniale dans l'Humanite (1904-2004), presentes et anotes par Alain Ruscio. Paris: La Dispute, 22005

This massive work in French includes cartoons. Also has contributions from Ho Chi Minh and contemporaries. It comprises articles from the french communist party paper.

dan

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From: Ky-Phong Tran <ky@frequentwind.com>

Reply-To: Ky-Phong Tran <ky@frequentwind.com>, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

To: vsg@u.washington.edu

Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM

Thank you!

Ky-Phong Tran

UC Riverside

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From: Tobias RETTIG <tobiasrettig@smu.edu.sg>

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

To: Ky-Phong Tran <ky@frequentwind.com>, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:08 AM

Dear All,

There is also Phan Van Truong's Une histoire de conspirateurs annamites a Paris (Ou la verite sur l'Indochine) (Montreuil: L'Insomniaque, 2003) [see http://cgecaf.com/article350.html], with a preface by Ngo Van (which can be read at http://chatquipeche.free.fr/intro.html); this is on WWI.

See also Claire Auzias (ed.), Un Paris revolutionnaire: emeutes, subversions, coleres (2001); again with some contributions by Ngo Van --> http://chatquipeche.free.fr/Brochures/PR.pdf

On Vietnamese soldiers and workers during WW1 in France, the vast majority of whom were not anti-colonial activists, see Kimloan Hill's chapter in Viet-Nam: Borderless Histories, edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid, 2006.

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From: Paul Sager <paul.sager@nyu.edu>

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

Date: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:05 PM