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  • 23 - The Vietnam War in Vietnamese Official and Personal Memory

  • from Part III - Legacies
  • General editor Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University, New York
  • Edited by Pierre Asselin, San Diego State University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
    Published online:
    02 January 2025
    Print publication:
    28 November 2024, pp 516-532

  • 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.