Vietnamese Collaborationism in Vichy France

During the Second World War, a small group of Vietnamese émigrés in Vichy France drew powerful inspiration from the ideological and material possibilities of the Nazi occupation. Their history reveals the colonial dimensions of a process of collaboration too often cast as solely European. It also sh...

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Published inThe Journal of Asian studies Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 987 - 1008
Main Author Keith, Charles
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.11.2017
Association for Asian Studies
Duke University Press, NC & IL
Subjects
Asian studies
Collaboration
Colonialism
Communism
Decolonization
Fascism
History
Ideology
Nationalism
Nazi era
Political history
Politics
Postwar history
Transnationalism
Vietnamese
War
World War II
Vichy France
Vietnam
France
Europe
colonialism
Vietnam
Indochina
migration
fascism
France
Vichy
World War II
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Summary:During the Second World War, a small group of Vietnamese émigrés in Vichy France drew powerful inspiration from the ideological and material possibilities of the Nazi occupation. Their history reveals the colonial dimensions of a process of collaboration too often cast as solely European. It also sheds light on the transnational migrations and intellectual circulations that made European experiences an important part of Asian wartime political choices. Finally, their myriad trajectories after the war are a powerful example of the ideological reconfigurations and reversals of Asian politics during decolonization.
ISSN:0021-9118
1752-0401
DOI:10.1017/S0021911817000791