Christopher E Goscha
Biographic Data
| ID | 524000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher E Goscha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher E |
| FAMILY NAME | Goscha |
| SIGNATURE | GOSCHA C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université du Québec à Montréal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Des Vietnamiens aux Français. La double colonisation
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Social Anthropology is a vibrant discipline of relevance to many areaseconomics, politics, business, humanities, health and public policy.This series, published in association with the Cambridge William Wyse Chair in Social Anthropology, focuses on key interventions in Social Anthropology, based on innovative theory and research of relevance to contemporary social issues
La guerre de décolonisation la plus violente du xx e siècle
L’équipe mobile extrahospitalière de gériatrie (EMGEH) permet une évaluation gériatrique approfondie des personnes âgées au plus près de leur environnement. Elle a pour mission une approche fine et précise du cadre de vie ainsi que du logement et concourt, ainsi, à l’étude de l’environnement, de l’autonomie de la personne et de ses éventuelles difficultés au quotidien. L’évaluation contribue à formuler des préconisations médicales, environnementa…
The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in Vietnam On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The Ro…
Making Sense of Mind-Boggling Violence
The First Vietnam War, better known to many as the First Indochina War (1945–1954), has always taken a back seat to other conflicts. When it comes to France’s wars of decolonization, French scholarship on the Algerian War (1954–1962) is far ahead. There are many reasons explaining this asymmetry, but the work of a new generation of French scholars since the early 2000s is one important factor. Historians like Emmanuel Blanchard, Raphaëlle Branche…
Global Wars and Decolonization in East and South-East Asia (1937–1954)
This chapter discusses how, between 1937 and 1954, two global conflicts combined to affect the course of East and South-East Asian decolonization profoundly—the Second World War and the Cold War. It covers how the Americans gained the upper hand in the region from 1945 by occupying Japan alone (unlike in Germany) and how the Chinese communist victory in 1949 and Mao’s alliance with Stalin a few months later readjusted the balance. It explains how…
Vietnam: A New History
Vietnam's role in one of the Cold War's longest-running conflicts has meant that its past has been endlessly abused. Popular accounts have cherry-picked from the Vietnamese past to tell politicized, American-centered stories--either reducing the story of Vietnam and the Vietnamese to a noble tradition of anticolonial resistance embodied by the communist leader Ho Chi Minh, or alternatively seeking to rehabilitate American allies by making similar…
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam
Aux origines du républicanisme vietnamien: Circulations mondiales et connexions coloniales
Cet article explique les origines du républicanisme vietnamien en étudiant un homme, Phan Chau Trinh, et l'imbrication de deux types de circulations, mondiale et coloniale. Les idées françaises ne sont pas arrivées au Vietnam par le seul biais de l'école coloniale. Phan Chau Trinh préférait exprimer ses idées en caractères chinois. Avant de se rendre à Paris en 1909, il avait d'abord visité la Chine et le Japon pour étudier les nouvelles idées ve…
Colonial Hanoi and Saigon at War: Social Dynamics of the Viet Minh’s ‘Underground City’, 1945–1954
Because much of the existing literature on the Indochina War (1945–54) remains focused on its diplomatic and military aspects, scholars have tended to overlook the transformative impact of this violent war of decolonization on the Vietnamese city ‘down below’. This article shifts our view of the Viet Minh’s war against the French in this direction by exploring how the colonial cities of Hanoi and Saigon were a vital part of the rural-based Democr…
Dictionnaire des Khmers Rouges: Nouvelle edition revise
So What Did You Learn from War?’ Violent Decolonization and Paul Mus's Search for Humanity
This article examines how and why the French Orientalist, Paul Mus, became one of the leading critics of the Indochina War and an advocate of French decolonization. Most studies of Western Orientalism tend to adopt Saidian approaches to demonstrate the degree to which Western scholars operated from within the confines of the wider colonial project and were influenced by it. Mus does not escape from this critique. However, like Jacques Berque in N…
Bringing Asia into Focus: Civilians and Combatants in the Line of Fire in China and Indochina
As readers of War & Society know well, the study of war has long shifted from strict military history to wider, interdisciplinary reflections on the impact of war upon states, societies, and cultur
A ‘Total War’ of Decolonization? Social Mobilization and State-Building in Communist Vietnam (1949–54)
By choosing to transition to modern, set-piece battle during the second half of the Indochina War, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) created one of the most socially totalizing wars in order to meet that ambitious goal. This article argues that, while the DRV did indeed create a remarkably modern army of six divisions, the lack of a mechanized logistical system meant that it had to mobilize hundreds of thousands of civilian porters to supp…
Wiring Decolonization: Turning Technology against the Colonizer during the Indochina War, 1945-1954
Twentieth-century wars of decolonization were more than simple diplomatic and military affairs. This article examines how the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) relied upon technology to drive state-making and to make war during the struggle against the French (1945-1954). Wireless radios, in particular, provided embattled nationalists a means by which they could communicate orders and information across wide expanses of contested space in real…
The Experience of War Four Sino-Indochinese Perspectives
Hell in a Very Small Place' Cold War and Decolonisation in the Assault on the Vietnamese Body at Dien Bien Phu
This essay examines how Vietnamese combatants of the communist-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam may have experienced battle during the Indochina War's most intensive phase beginning in 1950 and culminating in the Vietnamese victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. It seeks to provide what is almost always missing in military histories of Dien Bien Phu—the unprecedented assault on the Vietnamese body. It uses the Vietnamese experience t…
Widening the Colonial Encounter: Asian Connections Inside French Indochina During the Interwar Period
Relying on three inter-Asian colonial debates from French Indochina, this paper attempts to widen our analytical approach to the study of colonialism in Indochina beyond the 'colonizer'-'colonized' opposition by factoring in the relationships among the diverse Asian colonized living within the colonial state without downplaying the important role Western colonialism played in transforming those very relationships or being affected by them. The Fr…
Paul Mus: Voir Simplement
Research Article| February 01 2009 Paul Mus: Voir Simplement . . . David Chandler, David Chandler Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Christopher Goscha Christopher Goscha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2009) 4 (1): 145–148. https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2009.4.1.145 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplement…
After the massacre: Commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai - By Heonik Kwon
Dictionnaire de la guerre d'Indochine, 1945–1954
Prince Phetsarath (1890–1959): Nationalism and Royalty in the Making of Modern Laos
A biography of Prince Phetsarath highlights how a specific idea about Laos and its culture was formed under French colonial rule and nurtured under the Japanese occupation and its aftermath. During these periods, Phetsarath's understanding of Lao cultural nationalism was transformed into a political and anticolonial nationalism. While ultimately a study of failure, Phetsarath's activities show that anticolonial nationalism did not always have to …
Courting Diplomatic Disaster? The Difficult Integration of Vietnam into the Internationalist Communist Movement (1945––1950)
This article argues that the diplomacy of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam came closer to failure than we have thought. Between 1945 and 1950, Vietnamese communists had a remarkably hard time joining the internationalist communist movement. Stalin, above all, was wary of Hôô Chíí Minh, whom he considered untrustworthy for having "dissolved" the Indochinese Communist Party in 1945. This article concludes that, thanks to Chinese communist pressur…
The Maritime Nature of the Wars for Vietnam (1945-1975): A Geo-Historical Reflection
(2005). The Maritime Nature of the Wars for Vietnam (1945-1975): A Geo-Historical Reflection. War & Society: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 53-92
La Troisième guerre d’Indochine, 1975-1999: Sécurité et géopolitique en Asie du Sud-Est, Bui Xuan Quang
This book is difficult to nail down. It is many things at once. And it is not always what one thinks. What is sure, however, is that this is one of the most ambitious attempts undertaken in the last decade to study what has commonly become known as the “Third Indochina War”: the regional conflict that broke out when Asian communists turned on each other shortly after the Americans pulled out of Indochina in 1975. Bui Xuan Quang is professor of In…
Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution (1885-1954)
Widening the Colonial Encounter: Asian Connections Inside French Indochina During the Interwar Period
Relying on three inter-Asian colonial debates from French Indochina, this paper attempts to widen our analytical approach to the study of colonialism in Indochina beyond the 'colonizer'-'colonized' opposition by factoring in the relationships among the diverse Asian colonized living within the colonial state without downplaying the important role Western colonialism played in transforming those very relationships or being affected by them. The Fr…
Prince Phetsarath (1890–1959): Nationalism and Royalty in the Making of Modern Laos
A biography of Prince Phetsarath highlights how a specific idea about Laos and its culture was formed under French colonial rule and nurtured under the Japanese occupation and its aftermath. During these periods, Phetsarath's understanding of Lao cultural nationalism was transformed into a political and anticolonial nationalism. While ultimately a study of failure, Phetsarath's activities show that anticolonial nationalism did not always have to …
So What Did You Learn from War?’ Violent Decolonization and Paul Mus's Search for Humanity
This article examines how and why the French Orientalist, Paul Mus, became one of the leading critics of the Indochina War and an advocate of French decolonization. Most studies of Western Orientalism tend to adopt Saidian approaches to demonstrate the degree to which Western scholars operated from within the confines of the wider colonial project and were influenced by it. Mus does not escape from this critique. However, like Jacques Berque in N…
The Modern Barbarian: Nguyen Van Vinh and the Complexity Of Colonial Modernity in Vietnam
This article studies the life and socio-cultural works of Nguyen Van Vinh in order to understand better the complexity of 'colonial modernity' in Vietnam. Vinh saw in an alliance with colonial France the chance to modernise Vietnam in Western ways. Thanks to his translations and his essays on Vietnamese society and culture, he helped open the way to a larger cultural revolution in the 1930s. It was a way of dealing with the humiliation of colonia…
Vietnam and the World outside: The Case of Vietnamese Communist Advisers in Laos (1948–62)
This paper, concerned with Hanoi's relationship with Laos in the period 1948–62, explores some of the long-term ideological, cultural and strategic factors that shaped how the communist Vietnamese saw the world outside, and what, in turn, this can tell us about these same Vietnamese. After an opening historical overview, the paper examines how Vietnamese communist proselytizing in Laos in the years of war between 1945 and 1954 marked a change in …
Colonial Hanoi and Saigon at War: Social Dynamics of the Viet Minh’s ‘Underground City’, 1945–1954
Because much of the existing literature on the Indochina War (1945–54) remains focused on its diplomatic and military aspects, scholars have tended to overlook the transformative impact of this violent war of decolonization on the Vietnamese city ‘down below’. This article shifts our view of the Viet Minh’s war against the French in this direction by exploring how the colonial cities of Hanoi and Saigon were a vital part of the rural-based Democr…
A ‘Total War’ of Decolonization? Social Mobilization and State-Building in Communist Vietnam (1949–54)
By choosing to transition to modern, set-piece battle during the second half of the Indochina War, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) created one of the most socially totalizing wars in order to meet that ambitious goal. This article argues that, while the DRV did indeed create a remarkably modern army of six divisions, the lack of a mechanized logistical system meant that it had to mobilize hundreds of thousands of civilian porters to supp…
Wiring Decolonization: Turning Technology against the Colonizer during the Indochina War, 1945-1954
Twentieth-century wars of decolonization were more than simple diplomatic and military affairs. This article examines how the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) relied upon technology to drive state-making and to make war during the struggle against the French (1945-1954). Wireless radios, in particular, provided embattled nationalists a means by which they could communicate orders and information across wide expanses of contested space in real…
Courting Diplomatic Disaster? The Difficult Integration of Vietnam into the Internationalist Communist Movement (1945––1950)
This article argues that the diplomacy of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam came closer to failure than we have thought. Between 1945 and 1950, Vietnamese communists had a remarkably hard time joining the internationalist communist movement. Stalin, above all, was wary of Hôô Chíí Minh, whom he considered untrustworthy for having "dissolved" the Indochinese Communist Party in 1945. This article concludes that, thanks to Chinese communist pressur…
The Borders of Vietnam's Early Wartime Trade with Southern China: A Contemporary Perspective
Research Article| November 01 2000 The Borders of Vietnam's Early Wartime Trade with Southern China: A Contemporary Perspective Christopher E. Goscha Christopher E. Goscha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2000) 40 (6): 987–1018. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021199 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools …
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Social Anthropology is a vibrant discipline of relevance to many areaseconomics, politics, business, humanities, health and public policy.This series, published in association with the Cambridge William Wyse Chair in Social Anthropology, focuses on key interventions in Social Anthropology, based on innovative theory and research of relevance to contemporary social issues
Aux origines du républicanisme vietnamien: Circulations mondiales et connexions coloniales
Cet article explique les origines du républicanisme vietnamien en étudiant un homme, Phan Chau Trinh, et l'imbrication de deux types de circulations, mondiale et coloniale. Les idées françaises ne sont pas arrivées au Vietnam par le seul biais de l'école coloniale. Phan Chau Trinh préférait exprimer ses idées en caractères chinois. Avant de se rendre à Paris en 1909, il avait d'abord visité la Chine et le Japon pour étudier les nouvelles idées ve…
Le barbare moderne: Nguyen Van Vinh et la complexité de la modernisation coloniale au Vietnam
This article studies the life and social and cultural works of Nguyen Van Vinh in order to understand better the complexity of « colonial modernity » in Vietnam. Vinh saw in an alliance with colonial France the chance to modernise Vietnam in Western ways. Thanks to his translations and his essays on Vietnamese society and culture, he helped open the way to a larger cultural revolution in the 1930s. At the same time, he served as a powerful propag…
L'Indochine repensée par les « Indochinois »: Pham Qùynh et les deux débats de 1931 sur l'immigration, le fédéralisme et la réalité de l'Indochine
Si l'on accepte facilement la réalité de l'« Indonésie » sur la carte aujourd'hui, on a plus de difficulté à imaginer une nation « indochinoise » sur la péninsule sud-est asiatique. Et pourtant, dans les années trente, la question de la réalité de l'« Indochine » comme un aboutissement dans l'évolution étatique des possessions françaises était un sujet vivement discuté par beaucoup de Vietnamiens, Laotiens et Cambodgiens. A travers deux débats in…
Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution (1885-1954)
Vietnamese Revolutionaries and the Early Spread of Communism to Peninsular Southeast Asia: Towards a Regional Perspective
This paper adopts a regional and geographical approach to show how the early spread of communism to mainland South-east Asia owes much to overseas Chinese and overland Vietnamese patterns of immigration. This wider approach seeks to get beyond the frontiers of nationalist histories and the formation of the 'modern' nation-state (whether colonial or national) in order to think in more material terms about how communism and not entirely unlike Cath…
The Borders of Vietnam's Early Wartime Trade with Southern China: A Contemporary Perspective
Research Article| November 01 2000 The Borders of Vietnam's Early Wartime Trade with Southern China: A Contemporary Perspective Christopher E. Goscha Christopher E. Goscha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2000) 40 (6): 987–1018. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021199 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools …
Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954
Christopher Goscha resituates the Vietnamese revolution and war against the French into its Asian context. Breaking with nationalist and colonial historiographies which have largely locked Vietnam into 'Indochinese' or 'Nation-state' straightjackets, Goscha takes Thailand as his point of departure for exploring how the Vietnamese revolution was intimately linked to Asia between the birth of the 'Save the King Movement' in 1885 and the Battle of D…
Le barbare moderne: Nguyen Van Vinh et la complexité de la modernisation coloniale au Vietnam
This article studies the life and social and cultural works of Nguyen Van Vinh in order to understand better the complexity of « colonial modernity » in Vietnam. Vinh saw in an alliance with colonial France the chance to modernise Vietnam in Western ways. Thanks to his translations and his essays on Vietnamese society and culture, he helped open the way to a larger cultural revolution in the 1930s. At the same time, he served as a powerful propag…
Building force: Asian origins of twentieth-century military science in Vietnam (1905–54)
This article examines the Asian channels through which foreign military knowledge flowed into Vietnam during the first half of the twentieth century. Using the Vietnamese opposition to the creation of the French colonial state of Indochina between 1905 and 1954, it is argued that there is an Asian context that needs to be taken into consideration when studying twentieth-century military and technical transfers and adaptations in Vietnam
Foreign military transfers in mainland Southeast Asian wars: Adaptations, rejections and change (Introduction)
As in Europe, the transfer, adaptation and utilisation of foreign military knowledge and techniques have contributed greatly to the development of Southeast Asian states. However, it has not always been easy to write about such military transfers when it comes to Southeast Asia
La Troisième guerre d’Indochine, 1975-1999: Sécurité et géopolitique en Asie du Sud-Est, Bui Xuan Quang
This book is difficult to nail down. It is many things at once. And it is not always what one thinks. What is sure, however, is that this is one of the most ambitious attempts undertaken in the last decade to study what has commonly become known as the “Third Indochina War”: the regional conflict that broke out when Asian communists turned on each other shortly after the Americans pulled out of Indochina in 1975. Bui Xuan Quang is professor of In…
The Modern Barbarian: Nguyen Van Vinh and the Complexity Of Colonial Modernity in Vietnam
This article studies the life and socio-cultural works of Nguyen Van Vinh in order to understand better the complexity of 'colonial modernity' in Vietnam. Vinh saw in an alliance with colonial France the chance to modernise Vietnam in Western ways. Thanks to his translations and his essays on Vietnamese society and culture, he helped open the way to a larger cultural revolution in the 1930s. It was a way of dealing with the humiliation of colonia…
Vietnam and the World outside: The Case of Vietnamese Communist Advisers in Laos (1948–62)
This paper, concerned with Hanoi's relationship with Laos in the period 1948–62, explores some of the long-term ideological, cultural and strategic factors that shaped how the communist Vietnamese saw the world outside, and what, in turn, this can tell us about these same Vietnamese. After an opening historical overview, the paper examines how Vietnamese communist proselytizing in Laos in the years of war between 1945 and 1954 marked a change in …
The Maritime Nature of the Wars for Vietnam (1945-1975): A Geo-Historical Reflection
(2005). The Maritime Nature of the Wars for Vietnam (1945-1975): A Geo-Historical Reflection. War & Society: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 53-92
Courting Diplomatic Disaster? The Difficult Integration of Vietnam into the Internationalist Communist Movement (1945––1950)
This article argues that the diplomacy of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam came closer to failure than we have thought. Between 1945 and 1950, Vietnamese communists had a remarkably hard time joining the internationalist communist movement. Stalin, above all, was wary of Hôô Chíí Minh, whom he considered untrustworthy for having "dissolved" the Indochinese Communist Party in 1945. This article concludes that, thanks to Chinese communist pressur…
Dictionnaire de la guerre d'Indochine, 1945–1954
Prince Phetsarath (1890–1959): Nationalism and Royalty in the Making of Modern Laos
A biography of Prince Phetsarath highlights how a specific idea about Laos and its culture was formed under French colonial rule and nurtured under the Japanese occupation and its aftermath. During these periods, Phetsarath's understanding of Lao cultural nationalism was transformed into a political and anticolonial nationalism. While ultimately a study of failure, Phetsarath's activities show that anticolonial nationalism did not always have to …
Paul Mus: Voir Simplement
Research Article| February 01 2009 Paul Mus: Voir Simplement . . . David Chandler, David Chandler Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Christopher Goscha Christopher Goscha Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2009) 4 (1): 145–148. https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2009.4.1.145 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplement…
After the massacre: Commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai - By Heonik Kwon
Widening the Colonial Encounter: Asian Connections Inside French Indochina During the Interwar Period
Relying on three inter-Asian colonial debates from French Indochina, this paper attempts to widen our analytical approach to the study of colonialism in Indochina beyond the 'colonizer'-'colonized' opposition by factoring in the relationships among the diverse Asian colonized living within the colonial state without downplaying the important role Western colonialism played in transforming those very relationships or being affected by them. The Fr…
The Experience of War Four Sino-Indochinese Perspectives
Hell in a Very Small Place' Cold War and Decolonisation in the Assault on the Vietnamese Body at Dien Bien Phu
This essay examines how Vietnamese combatants of the communist-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam may have experienced battle during the Indochina War's most intensive phase beginning in 1950 and culminating in the Vietnamese victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. It seeks to provide what is almost always missing in military histories of Dien Bien Phu—the unprecedented assault on the Vietnamese body. It uses the Vietnamese experience t…
Dictionnaire des Khmers Rouges: Nouvelle edition revise
So What Did You Learn from War?’ Violent Decolonization and Paul Mus's Search for Humanity
This article examines how and why the French Orientalist, Paul Mus, became one of the leading critics of the Indochina War and an advocate of French decolonization. Most studies of Western Orientalism tend to adopt Saidian approaches to demonstrate the degree to which Western scholars operated from within the confines of the wider colonial project and were influenced by it. Mus does not escape from this critique. However, like Jacques Berque in N…
Bringing Asia into Focus: Civilians and Combatants in the Line of Fire in China and Indochina
As readers of War & Society know well, the study of war has long shifted from strict military history to wider, interdisciplinary reflections on the impact of war upon states, societies, and cultur
A ‘Total War’ of Decolonization? Social Mobilization and State-Building in Communist Vietnam (1949–54)
By choosing to transition to modern, set-piece battle during the second half of the Indochina War, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) created one of the most socially totalizing wars in order to meet that ambitious goal. This article argues that, while the DRV did indeed create a remarkably modern army of six divisions, the lack of a mechanized logistical system meant that it had to mobilize hundreds of thousands of civilian porters to supp…
Wiring Decolonization: Turning Technology against the Colonizer during the Indochina War, 1945-1954
Twentieth-century wars of decolonization were more than simple diplomatic and military affairs. This article examines how the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) relied upon technology to drive state-making and to make war during the struggle against the French (1945-1954). Wireless radios, in particular, provided embattled nationalists a means by which they could communicate orders and information across wide expanses of contested space in real…
Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (30 works) · History (28 works) · Political science (25 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (19 works) · History (18 works) · Law (18 works) · Ancient history (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Vietnamese (14 works)