Why, Benedict Anderson once asked, did Javanese become Indonesian in 1945 whereas the Vietnamese balked at becoming Indochinese? In this classic study, Goscha shows that Vietnamese of all political colours came remarkably close to building a modern national identity based on the colonial model of Indochina while Lao and Cambodian nationalists rejected this precisely because it represented a Vietnamese entity. Specialists of French colonial, Vietnamese, Southeast Asia and nationalism studies will all find much of value in Goscha’s provocative rethinking of the relationship between colonialism and nationalism in Indochina.
Authors
- ISBN
- : 978 87 7694 099 7 (print)
- OAI
- oai:DiVA.org:norden-4192
- Published in
- Copenhagen: NIAS Press
- Responsible organisation
- Nordic Council of Ministers, NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
- Series
- NIAS Classics ; 3
- URN
- : urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-4192
- Year
- 2012
- pages
- 192