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Shawn McHale mchale at gwu.edu
Thu Sep 24 19:03:57 PDT 2015
Dear list,
I missed this story in August, when it came out, but it is very
interesting: the BBC's Vietnamese service mentioned that a story on Nguyễn
Hữu Đang was published in Vietnam in August, then retracted. This is very
very interesting news. See:
http://www.bbc.com/vietnamese/vietnam/2015/08/150812_vo_ba_cuong_nguyenhuudang_dansinh
So what? Some of you may ask. Nguyễn Hữu Đang was a leading intellectual
who took part in the August Revolution of 1945. He played a key role in the
Nhân Văn Giai Phẩm affair of 1956, in which reformist communist called,
among other things, for a democratization of the DRV and opening up of the
arts. For his role in this affair, Nguyễn Hữu Đang was sentenced to 15
years in prison and was then completely effaced from public life. Unlike,
for example, the philosopher Trần Đức Thảo or the writer Hoàng Cầm, Đang
was never rehabilitated in any way, presumably because of his key
organizational role in the "affair." He died in 2007.
It is now 2015, 59 years after the Nhân Văn Giai phẩm affair. One would
think that by now, after the cautious rehabilitation of other participants
in this affair, that an article could be published on Nguyễn Hữu Đang. But
clearly, the party is very very sensitive about this affair.
(This is not the same thing, but during his life, the major revolutionary
Trần Văn Giàu died, leader of the August Revolution in the south in 1945,
was not allowed to tell his uncensored account of events either. His
account was published on the web abroad after his death.)
The author of the story on Nguyễn Hữu Đang, Võ Bá Cường, was quoted,
after the story was withdrawn from the Dân Sinh website, that "Tôi cũng
nghĩ ngợi nhiều và nhận ra có thể bây giờ là thời điểm chưa thích hợp để
công bố một dạng tư liệu như vậy. Nhà văn ở đất nước này cần tuân theo
đường lối" ("I have thought a lot about this, and recognize that perhaps
this is not the appropriate time to publish such material. Writers in this
country must follow guidelines") The editor of Dân sinh, the journal that
published his article, may have been "disciplined" for his faux pas. The
essay is no longer on the website of the newspaper, but has been reprinted
elsewhere. See, for example,
http://bshohai.blogspot.com/2015/08/nguyen-huu-ang-bi-thuong-va-cay-ang-mua.html
Shawn McHale
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Shawn McHale
Associate Professor of History
George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052 USA
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Dien Nguyen nguyendien519 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 03:35:01 PDT 2015
Dear Shawn and list,
You may be interested in an article written in 1992 by the poet Phùng Quán
about his meeting with Nguyễn Hữu Đang.
Nguyễn Điền
Independent Researcher
Canberra
*Phùng Quán tìm thăm Nguyễn Hữu Đang*
http://www.diendan.org/tai-lieu/bao-cu/so-025/phung-quan-nguyen-huu-dang
Shawn McHale mchale at gwu.edu
Sat Sep 26 13:17:09 PDT 2015
Điền,
That's a fascinating article!
Dien Nguyen nguyendien519 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 05:02:04 PDT 2015
This is an obit written in Feb 2007, a couple of weeks after Nguyễn Hữu
Đang's death.
Nguyễn Điền
Nguyễn Hữu Đang và Nhân văn Giai phẩm
Đặng Tiến
Viết cho BBC từ Orleans, Pháp
*Viết ngày 20/02/2007*
http://www.bbc.com/vietnamese/vietnam/story/2007/02/070223_nguyenhuudang.shtml
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