Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. INTRODUCTION Rethinking Vietnamese Republicanism 1
6. CHAPTER ONE A Republican Moment in the Study of Modern Vietnam 26
7. CHAPTER TWO Early Republicans’ Concept of the Nation: Trần Trọng Kim and Việt Nam sử lược 43
8. CHAPTER THREE The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Colonial Republicanism in the 1930s 61
9. CHAPTER FOUR Trần Văn Tùng’s Vision of a New Nationalism for a New Vietnam 81
10. CHAPTER FIVE How Democratic Should Vietnam Be? The Constitutional Transition of 1955–1956 and the Debate on Democracy 100
11. CHAPTER SIX Personalism, Liberal Capitalism, and the Strategic Hamlet Campaign 120
12. CHAPTER SEVEN “They Eat the Flesh of Children” Migration, Resettlement, and Sectionalism in South Vietnam, 1954–1957 143
13. CHAPTER EIGHT Creating the National Library in Saigon Colonial Legacies, Republican Visions, and Reading Publics, 1946–1958 164
14. CHAPTER NINE Striving for the Quintessence Building a New Identity of National Literature Based on Creative Freedom 186
15. CHAPTER TEN When State Propaganda Becomes Social Knowledge 202
16. Bibliography 231
17. Contributors 247
18. Index 251