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RICE WARS IN aO"OE>q Sm] Z>z 1 _ 1 l [ 1 | 1 GEOFFREY C. GUNN HpAn HO PHUfiU‘ViEI HAM mnxumcmmmumnmc ANH HUNG Rice Wars in Colonial Vietnam ASIA/PACIFIC/PERSPECTIV Series Editor: Mark Selden Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China edited by Barge Bakken Woman, Man, Bangkok: Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand by Scot Barmé Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People’s Republic by Anne-Marie Brady Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in China by Anne-Marie Brady Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics ofFriendship on China s Mongolian Frontier by Uradyn E. Bulag The Mongols at China’s Edge: History and the Politics ofNational Unity by Uradyn E. Bulag Transforming Asian Socialism: China and Wetnam Compared edited by Anita Chan, Benedict J. 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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Cnngress Catalngingirrl’ublication Data Gunn, Geoffrey C., author. Rice wars in colonial Vietnam: the Great Famine and the Viet Minh road to power/Geoffrey C. Gunn. pages cm (Asia/Pacific/perspectives) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 973-1-4422-2302-3 (cloth: alk. paper) 7 ISBN 973-1-4422-2303-5 (electronic) 1. VietnamiHistory720th century. 2. WetnamEconomic conditions720th century. 3. Famines 7V:etnam 4. thnaanlnnization. I. Title. II. Series: Asia/Pacific/perspectives. DS556.8.GES 2014 2013040434 959.70Pdc23 55.” The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesiPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/N150 Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America Contents List of Tables List of Maps Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Agrarian Setting 2 Anticolnnial Resistance The Rice Rebellions, 193mm The Popular Front Years, 193€r39 Vichy and the Japanese Occupation, 194045 Allied Power Plays over Indochina The “August Revolution" of 1945 and Its Defense H The Great Vietnamese Famine, 1944—45 Epilogue Glossary References Index About the Author Tables Table 1 1 Land uwnerslup m mem, 1530 Table 1 2 Land uwnerslup in mm 1545 Table 1 3 lace Land (Hectares) Versus Population by Rzgum, 1535. Table 3 1 Pure .51 Rice (1.. P1351257 31 mm, ocmhmnmmber mu Table 3 2 Pure .51 Rice (1.. P1351257 31 mm, Januaxerarch 1531 Table 5 1 Mammy Payments (m masters] {mmVichy In Japan, 1540—45 Table 5 2 lace and Com Bpons 1mm Indochina m lapan Table 5 3 lapanese Industrial me Pradncmn in mm, 1943—45 Table 7 1 mm anmms or 1112 v»! Ba: Regm, 19312719 mum Superior Lhauvel's Timetable {or Famine Rehef m mm, 1945 (by Month) m Tonnes Table 2! 1 a! an lmpnrmd from Lochincmna Maps Locus of Lhe Nghe-Tinh Rebellion, 1930731 Tonkin (North Vietnam), Provincial Boundaries Red River Delta Dikes Deemed Vulnerable to American Wartime Bombing, Jean Sainteny, Head of Free French Intelligence, Kunming, China, July 1945
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