Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975 PDF
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Making Two Vietnams North and South Vietnamese youth had very different experiences of growing up during the Vietnamese War. This book gives a unique perspectiveontheconflictthroughtheprismofadult–youthrelations. Bystudyingtheserelations,includingeducationalsystems,socialorga- nizations, and texts created by and for children during the war, Olga Droranalyseshowthetwosocietiesdealtwiththeirwartimeexperience and strove to shape their futures. She examines the socialization and politicization of Vietnamese children and teenagers, contrasting the North’s highly centralized agenda of indoctrination with the South, which had no such policy, and explores the results of these varied approaches. By considering the influence of Western culture on the youthoftheSouthandofsocialistcultureontheyouthoftheNorth, we learn how the youth culture of both Vietnams diverged from their prewarpathsandfromeachother. OlgaDrorisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofHistoryatTexas A&MUniversity. StudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstitute,ColumbiaUniversity TheStudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstituteofColumbiaUniversitywere inaugurated in 1962 to bring to a wider public the results of significant new researchonmodernandcontemporaryEastAsia. Alistoftitlesinthisseriescanbefoundatthebackofthebook. Making Two Vietnams War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975 Olga Dror TexasA&MUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108470124 DOI:10.1017/9781108556163 ©OlgaDror2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2018 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainbyClaysLtd,ElcografS.p.A. AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Dror,Olga,author. Title:MakingtwoVietnams:warandyouthidentities,1965–75/OlgaDror, TexasA&MUniversity. Description:Cambridge;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,[2018]| Series:StudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstitute,Columbia Identifiers:LCCN2018021914|ISBN9781108470124(alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:VietnamWar,1961–1975–Children–Vietnam.|VietnamWar, 1961–1975–Youth–Vietnam.|Socialismandyouth–Vietnam.|Communist education–Vietnam–History–20thcentury.|Youth–Vietnam(Republic)– History.|Education–Vietnam(Republic)|Political socialization–Vietnam (Republic)|Vietnam–Civilization–Westerninfluences.|Textbooks–Vietnam. Classification:LCCDS559.8.C53D762018|DDC959.704–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018021914 ISBN978-1-108-47012-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. To all those who grew up in North Vietnam and in South Vietnam during the war. Contents Listoffigures pageviii Listoftables x Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 EducationalSystemsoftheDRVandtheRVN 15 2 SocialOrganizationsintheDRVandtheRVN 73 3 PublicationPoliciesandVenuesintheDRVandthe RVN 108 4 EducationalandSocialNarrativesthroughtheTextsin theDRV 168 5 EducationalandSocialNarrativesthroughtheTexts fromtheRVN 219 Conclusion 268 References 279 Index 308 vii Figures 0.1 PictureofaBoy.FromTetnamGa.(NewYearofa Rooster)(Hanoi:KimDong,1969),48. page1 1.1 NumberofPupilsinCommunitySchools,1965–73 63 1.2 RateofImprisonmentinCases,1965–73 68 3.1 NumberofTranslationsbyKimDongPublishingHouse, 1961–75 125 3.2 Cartoon:DaHoa,“Nguoitagiettreemnhuthenao?” (HowDoPeopleKillChildren?),Hontre(YoungSouls), December15,1964,4. 146 3.3 Priceofmagazines,1969–75 164 4.1 Cartoon:VanThanh,“Banhdauxuan:‘tang’xamluoc My”(“CakesfortheBeginningofSpring:‘Gifts’to AmericanAggressors”),Thieunientienphong(Pioneer), February20,1968. 198 4.2 Cartoon:DauKhacBinh,“Tranhdo”(Picture-Puzzle), Thieunientienphong(Pioneer),May17,1974. 201 4.3 PictureofLeVanTamfromTuoinhoanhhung(Heroic Childhood)(Hanoi:KimDong,1965). 205 4.4 PictureofNguyenVanBewithTienphong(Vanguard) newspaperdescribinghisheroicdeedsanddeath.“Viet CongDeadHeroisAlive.”VietNamBulletin1(6),June 1967,121. 208 4.5 TrinhDuongandHaQuangPhuong,“EmBuiTrung” (YoungboyBuiTrung),VuihethangMy(EnjoySummer, TriumphoverAmericans)(Hanoi:KimDongPublishing House,1969),13. 215 viii
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