In search of moral authority the discourse on poverty, poor relief, and charity in French colonial Vietnam /

Main Author: Nguyen-Marshall, Van, 1967-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, c2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10517089
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Poverty and poor relief in nineteenth-century Vietnam
  • The French administration and famine relief
  • Philanthropy, patriotism, and the Vietnamese elite (1920-32)
  • Engendering charity
  • Representing poverty, gender, and nation in Vietnamese literature
  • The Popular Front and the problem of colonial poverty (1936-39)
  • Conclusion.