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The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, [6] and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel received generally positive reviews from critics. [7] It was named on more than 30 best book of the year lists and a New York Times Editor's Choice ...
From 1960, the North Vietnamese government went to war with the Republic of Vietnam via its proxy the Viet Cong, in an attempt to annex South Vietnam and reunify Vietnam under a communist party. [60] North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces and supplies were sent along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
On September 2, 1945, at Duc Anh Ba Đình Square, Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet Minh organization, declared Vietnam's independence under the new name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN) in a speech that invoked the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the ...
The text, written by Le Duan, then the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and was written for the 40th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. [1] The text is the main ideological contribution by Le Duan to the ideology of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Vietnamese civilians were robbed, raped and killed by French soldiers in Saigon when they came back in August 1945. [76] Vietnamese women were also raped in north Vietnam by the French like in Bảo Hà, Bảo Yên District, Lào Cai province and Phu Lu, which caused 400 Vietnamese who were trained by the French to defect on 20 June 1948 ...
The final straw for many Northern Vietnamese came when the French captured the city of Sơn Tây in 1883 against the combined forces of the Vietnamese, Chinese and Black Flag armies. Subsequently, there were attacks by local Vietnamese in the north on French forces, some even led by former Mandarins in direct defiance of the policy set by Huế.
Vietnam: The Origins of Revolution is a 1966 book by John T. McAlister, Jr. [1] It argues for an original theory on political revolution in Vietnam, . The book, a revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation, chronicles the history of Vietnam from the nascent French colonization in 1885 to the August Revolution in 1945.
Renewal in Viet Nam: Theory and Reality is a political book written in 2015 by Vietnamese Communist Party general secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng.The text is a summary of past experiences and defines the tasks and objectives of the Vietnamese revolution and the Communist Party of Vietnam. [1]