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iv Cover calligraphy Yan Zhenqing 9HP, Tang calligrapher and statesman Cover illustration Pan Tianshou mX%, Sleeping Cat IliSIIiOO$iI!, ink and colour on paper (1954), 87 x 76.2 cm (collection of the China Art Gallery, Hangzhou)
INDIGENIZING COLONIAL MODERNITY IN NAM EO /\ . <strong>Philip</strong> <strong>Taylor</strong> De-Colonizing Southern Vietnam's Modern History The Vietnamese economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s were accompanied by a number of significant reversals among state social scientists writing on the legacy of pre-socialist alternatives in southern Vietnam. After the failed attempt to carry the momentum of military victory into the project of post-war economic development, Vietnam's communist leaders identified "voluntarism" and lack of attention to "objective conditions" as the key weaknesses of their economic unification policies. To revitalize the project of constructing socialism, social science researchers were charged with reinventorying the distinctive attributes which the area of Vietnam below the 17th parallel, could contribute to the nation's reforms. Perhaps the most notable aspect of this commentary were the reversals on the meaning of the US era. Shortly after unification, it had been argued that the impact of US policy in the territory administered by the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) had impeded modernization, making the effects of French colonialism pale into insignificance: No-one underestimates the harmful effects of neocolonialist culture. Twenty years of US devastation created consequences arguably ten times more serious than those of one hundred years of French colonialism. 1 1 Tran Quang, "Vai suy nghi v tan du van h6a thVc dim m6i 6 Min Nam hin nay" [Reflections on the vestiges of neo-colonial culture in the South today], Van H6a Ngh¢ 7bu(it (976): 12. 2 Nguyn C6ng Blnh, "M9t s6 diic dim xufrt phat cua Min Nam di len chu nghia xii h9i" [Some starling points of the South on its way to socialism], in Nguyn Quang Vinh et al., eds, Mifm Nam trang 51! nghi¢P d6i mdi cUa ca nz.tOt [South Vietnam and the nation's enterprise of Renovation] (H6 Chi Minh City: Social Sciences Publishing House, 1990), p.26. By the end of the next decade, the historical significance of the US impact, while still considered momentous, had been revalorized: The socio-economic complexion of the regions of South Vietnam did not undergo change worth mentioning from the feudal regime (cht dQ phong kiffn) to the French colonial era. However, the situation changed after 1954, when US policy brought South Vietnam into the orbit of capitalism (chit ngh"ia tu him) of which America was the leader.2 97
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