Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975

342 Pages·2018·5.394 MB·English

by  Olga Dror

Making Two Vietnams
North and South Vietnamese youth had very different experiences of
growing up during the Vietnamese War. This book gives a unique
perspectiveontheconflictthroughtheprismofadult–youthrelations.
Bystudyingtheserelations,includingeducationalsystems,socialorga-
nizations, and texts created by and for children during the war, Olga
Droranalyseshowthetwosocietiesdealtwiththeirwartimeexperience
and strove to shape their futures. She examines the socialization and
politicization of Vietnamese children and teenagers, contrasting the
North’s highly centralized agenda of indoctrination with the South,
which had no such policy, and explores the results of these varied
approaches. By considering the influence of Western culture on the
youthoftheSouthandofsocialistcultureontheyouthoftheNorth,
we learn how the youth culture of both Vietnams diverged from their
prewarpathsandfromeachother.
OlgaDrorisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofHistoryatTexas
A&MUniversity.
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Making Two Vietnams
War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975
Olga Dror
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Subjects:LCSH:VietnamWar,1961–1975–Children–Vietnam.|VietnamWar,
1961–1975–Youth–Vietnam.|Socialismandyouth–Vietnam.|Communist
education–Vietnam–History–20thcentury.|Youth–Vietnam(Republic)–
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To all those who grew up in North Vietnam and in
South Vietnam during the war.

Contents
Listoffigures pageviii
Listoftables x
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 EducationalSystemsoftheDRVandtheRVN 15
2 SocialOrganizationsintheDRVandtheRVN 73
3 PublicationPoliciesandVenuesintheDRVandthe
RVN 108
4 EducationalandSocialNarrativesthroughtheTextsin
theDRV 168
5 EducationalandSocialNarrativesthroughtheTexts
fromtheRVN 219
Conclusion 268
References 279
Index 308
vii
Figures
0.1 PictureofaBoy.FromTetnamGa.(NewYearofa
Rooster)(Hanoi:KimDong,1969),48. page1
1.1 NumberofPupilsinCommunitySchools,1965–73 63
1.2 RateofImprisonmentinCases,1965–73 68
3.1 NumberofTranslationsbyKimDongPublishingHouse,
1961–75 125
3.2 Cartoon:DaHoa,“Nguoitagiettreemnhuthenao?”
(HowDoPeopleKillChildren?),Hontre(YoungSouls),
December15,1964,4. 146
3.3 Priceofmagazines,1969–75 164
4.1 Cartoon:VanThanh,“Banhdauxuan:‘tang’xamluoc
My”(“CakesfortheBeginningofSpring:‘Gifts’to
AmericanAggressors”),Thieunientienphong(Pioneer),
February20,1968. 198
4.2 Cartoon:DauKhacBinh,“Tranhdo”(Picture-Puzzle),
Thieunientienphong(Pioneer),May17,1974. 201
4.3 PictureofLeVanTamfromTuoinhoanhhung(Heroic
Childhood)(Hanoi:KimDong,1965). 205
4.4 PictureofNguyenVanBewithTienphong(Vanguard)
newspaperdescribinghisheroicdeedsanddeath.“Viet
CongDeadHeroisAlive.”VietNamBulletin1(6),June
1967,121. 208
4.5 TrinhDuongandHaQuangPhuong,“EmBuiTrung”
(YoungboyBuiTrung),VuihethangMy(EnjoySummer,
TriumphoverAmericans)(Hanoi:KimDongPublishing
House,1969),13. 215
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