Colonialism Experienced: Vietnamese Writings on Colonialism, 1900-1931

The first three decades of the twentieth century in late-colonial Vietnam -- the period that also marked the transition between the dominant Confucian and nascent Western worldviews -- generated an abundance of political literature in that country. The documents from this transitional era belong to a variety of genres: propaganda pamphlets, open letters to government officials, texts for private or clandestine classrooms, manifestos of political or cultural organizations, columns from newsp...