Shawn Mchale
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shawn Mchale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shawn |
| FAMILY NAME | Mchale |
| SIGNATURE | MCHALE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6191-4063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Le bouddhisme vietnamien contemporain et ses interactions avec les sociétés d'Asie du Sud-Est
Never as inscrutable and bizarre as some Westerners believed”
Journal Article “Never as inscrutable and bizarre as some Westerners believed” Get access Nu-Anh Tran. Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2022. 260 pp. $68.00 (hardcover). Shawn McHale Shawn McHale [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad040, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad040 Published: 16 …
Beyond Fanon
In 1961, Frantz Fanon, born in urban Fort-de-France, Martinique, who had become famous as a writer and militant in the Algerian National Liberation Front, posed this question for colonized peoples: “What must we do in order to realize Dien Bien Phu?” Christopher Goscha sees his book The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam as one response to Fanon’s question. Dien Bien Phu, of course, refers to the iconic 1954 battle in…
The First Vietnam War
Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945–54), except in the south. He shows how broad swaths of Vietnamese people were uneasily united in 1945 under the Viet Minh Resistance banner, all opposing the French attempt to reclaim control of the country. By 1947, resistance unity had shattered and Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic violence had divided the Mekong delta. From this point on, the…
Print and Power
In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printe…
Quagmire
DAVID BIGGS. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 320 pp. US$50.00, hardcover; US$24.95, paper. In this book, David Biggs presents an environmental history of the modern Mekong delta in w
Ethnicity, Violence, and Khmer-Vietnamese Relations
This essay argues that to understand twentieth-century Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic antagonism, the contest for the lower Mekong Delta (in today's Vietnam) since the mid-eighteenth century has been key. It argues, however, that while this pre-1945 background can explain antagonism, it cannot sufficiently explain the violence between Khmer and Vietnamese that occurred after 1945. For that, the First Indochina War (1945-54) and decolonization marked a t…
Understanding the Fanatic Mind? The Việt Minh and Race Hatred in the First Indochina War (1945––1954)
This essay examines Việt Minh deployment of propaganda on race hatred and cannibalism during the First Indochina War (1945––1954). It evaluates the literature on the First Indochina War and on historical institutionalism for its ability to help explain this propaganda. It then focuses on the war for the Mekong Delta, arguing that weak state control led to continued violence and the breakdown of social trust. The paper then brings culture into the…
Vietnamese Marxism, Dissent, and the Politics of Postcolonial Memory
The themes of nationalism and revolution occupy an important place in the study of post-1945 Asia. Nowhere is this more evident than in Vietnam: after all, the Resistance War against the French (1946-54), followed by the war against the Americans and their allies (1965-75), has shaped modern Vietnamese history. For the 1950s in particular, scholars of Vietnam have developed a view in which nationalistic communists in the north consolidate their g…
Voices from the Terror
Voices from the Terror
Texts and Bodies
Vietnam is often seen to have undergone a fundamental shift in the Tran period (1225-1400) from an unfamiliar, highly Buddhist country to a highly Confucian one. Using a key source for Tran history, the Dai Viêt su ky toan thu, this essay challenges this common view. First, it focuses not on post-Tran Confucian representations of the past but on Tran bodily practices. Second, it argues that modern Vietnamese historians in particular, utilizing te…
Imagining Human Liberation
Le role du renouveau du bouddhisme vietnamien dans le mouvement nationaliste entre 1920 et 1939 est trop mal connu. Les deux courants, marxiste et bouddhiste, ont suivi a la meme epoque des voies analogues dans leurs preoccupations, mais differentes dans leurs reponses. Les intellectuels occidentalises et les marxistes en particulier tendirent a disqualifier le bouddhisme dans un tel debat, ce qui confina ce dernier a se developper dans sa sphere…
Vietnamese Marxism, Dissent, and the Politics of Postcolonial Memory
The themes of nationalism and revolution occupy an important place in the study of post-1945 Asia. Nowhere is this more evident than in Vietnam: after all, the Resistance War against the French (1946-54), followed by the war against the Americans and their allies (1965-75), has shaped modern Vietnamese history. For the 1950s in particular, scholars of Vietnam have developed a view in which nationalistic communists in the north consolidate their g…
Ethnicity, Violence, and Khmer-Vietnamese Relations
This essay argues that to understand twentieth-century Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic antagonism, the contest for the lower Mekong Delta (in today's Vietnam) since the mid-eighteenth century has been key. It argues, however, that while this pre-1945 background can explain antagonism, it cannot sufficiently explain the violence between Khmer and Vietnamese that occurred after 1945. For that, the First Indochina War (1945-54) and decolonization marked a t…
Understanding the Fanatic Mind? The Việt Minh and Race Hatred in the First Indochina War (1945––1954)
This essay examines Việt Minh deployment of propaganda on race hatred and cannibalism during the First Indochina War (1945––1954). It evaluates the literature on the First Indochina War and on historical institutionalism for its ability to help explain this propaganda. It then focuses on the war for the Mekong Delta, arguing that weak state control led to continued violence and the breakdown of social trust. The paper then brings culture into the…
Imagining Human Liberation
Le role du renouveau du bouddhisme vietnamien dans le mouvement nationaliste entre 1920 et 1939 est trop mal connu. Les deux courants, marxiste et bouddhiste, ont suivi a la meme epoque des voies analogues dans leurs preoccupations, mais differentes dans leurs reponses. Les intellectuels occidentalises et les marxistes en particulier tendirent a disqualifier le bouddhisme dans un tel debat, ce qui confina ce dernier a se developper dans sa sphere…
Texts and Bodies
Vietnam is often seen to have undergone a fundamental shift in the Tran period (1225-1400) from an unfamiliar, highly Buddhist country to a highly Confucian one. Using a key source for Tran history, the Dai Viêt su ky toan thu, this essay challenges this common view. First, it focuses not on post-Tran Confucian representations of the past but on Tran bodily practices. Second, it argues that modern Vietnamese historians in particular, utilizing te…
Voices from the Terror
Voices from the Terror
Vietnamese Marxism, Dissent, and the Politics of Postcolonial Memory
The themes of nationalism and revolution occupy an important place in the study of post-1945 Asia. Nowhere is this more evident than in Vietnam: after all, the Resistance War against the French (1946-54), followed by the war against the Americans and their allies (1965-75), has shaped modern Vietnamese history. For the 1950s in particular, scholars of Vietnam have developed a view in which nationalistic communists in the north consolidate their g…
Understanding the Fanatic Mind? The Việt Minh and Race Hatred in the First Indochina War (1945––1954)
This essay examines Việt Minh deployment of propaganda on race hatred and cannibalism during the First Indochina War (1945––1954). It evaluates the literature on the First Indochina War and on historical institutionalism for its ability to help explain this propaganda. It then focuses on the war for the Mekong Delta, arguing that weak state control led to continued violence and the breakdown of social trust. The paper then brings culture into the…
Quagmire
DAVID BIGGS. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 320 pp. US$50.00, hardcover; US$24.95, paper. In this book, David Biggs presents an environmental history of the modern Mekong delta in w
Ethnicity, Violence, and Khmer-Vietnamese Relations
This essay argues that to understand twentieth-century Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic antagonism, the contest for the lower Mekong Delta (in today's Vietnam) since the mid-eighteenth century has been key. It argues, however, that while this pre-1945 background can explain antagonism, it cannot sufficiently explain the violence between Khmer and Vietnamese that occurred after 1945. For that, the First Indochina War (1945-54) and decolonization marked a t…
Print and Power
In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printe…
The First Vietnam War
Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945–54), except in the south. He shows how broad swaths of Vietnamese people were uneasily united in 1945 under the Viet Minh Resistance banner, all opposing the French attempt to reclaim control of the country. By 1947, resistance unity had shattered and Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic violence had divided the Mekong delta. From this point on, the…
Beyond Fanon
In 1961, Frantz Fanon, born in urban Fort-de-France, Martinique, who had become famous as a writer and militant in the Algerian National Liberation Front, posed this question for colonized peoples: “What must we do in order to realize Dien Bien Phu?” Christopher Goscha sees his book The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam as one response to Fanon’s question. Dien Bien Phu, of course, refers to the iconic 1954 battle in…
Never as inscrutable and bizarre as some Westerners believed”
Journal Article “Never as inscrutable and bizarre as some Westerners believed” Get access Nu-Anh Tran. Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2022. 260 pp. $68.00 (hardcover). Shawn McHale Shawn McHale [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad040, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad040 Published: 16 …
Le bouddhisme vietnamien contemporain et ses interactions avec les sociétés d'Asie du Sud-Est
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