Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
- The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
- The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- General Introduction
- Introduction
- Part I The Late Vietnam War
- Part II The Postwar Era
- Part III Legacies
- 20 The Vietnam War and International Law
- 21 Environmental Legacies of the Vietnam War
- 22 The Vietnamese Diaspora
- 23 The Vietnam War in Vietnamese Official and Personal Memory
- 24 The Vietnam War in American Culture
- 25 The Specter of Vietnam
- 26 Vietnam’s Search for Its Place in the World
- Index
23 - The Vietnam War in Vietnamese Official and Personal Memory
from Part III - Legacies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
- The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
- The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- General Introduction
- Introduction
- Part I The Late Vietnam War
- Part II The Postwar Era
- Part III Legacies
- 20 The Vietnam War and International Law
- 21 Environmental Legacies of the Vietnam War
- 22 The Vietnamese Diaspora
- 23 The Vietnam War in Vietnamese Official and Personal Memory
- 24 The Vietnam War in American Culture
- 25 The Specter of Vietnam
- 26 Vietnam’s Search for Its Place in the World
- Index
Summary
Since the end of the Vietnam War, the Communist party-state has sponsored one project after another to commemorate that inspired and frenzied age. Memoirs, shrines, sculptures, paintings, fiction and film, each in its own way, lent awe to the revolution. By the mid-1980s – the high noon of market reforms – people from all walks of life began to lay claim to that past, ushering in something of a “commemorative fever.” This chapter examines how Vietnamese letters and the arts met the call to re-examine the Vietnam War, what forms they took, and how the many highroads to history, official and private, cut across one another.
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- The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War , pp. 516 - 532Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024