Vietnam #1
Ethnicity, Geography and Early History
A. Location - North - China, West - Laos and Cambodia,
East - South China Sea
Vietnam covers 127,300 square miles, area as large
as the British Isles
B. Vietnam - ruled by China 111 BC to 939AD
C. Chinese rule overthrown in 939AD, ruled by different Emperors and
families - Trinh in the north, Nguyen in central Vietnam
Human Fabric and Languages
A. Mixture of non Chinese, Mongolian, Austro-Indonesian languages
developed by Alexandre DeRhodes
B. Tribal groups - Mongolian (about 2 million), Tai tribes
(1,000,000 people), Montagnards (outside Vietnam culture),
Chams (40,000 people eliminated), Khmers (500,000 - very few
left, mainly in Cambodia), Chinese (past 1,000,000 in Vietnam),
past history fear of China still exists today
Early History of Vietnam
A. Dong-Son culture, King Hung (17 generations, Bronze Age to Third
Millennium, sea faring family
B. Vietnam-Chinese rule, early nationalism, hostility, uprisings, 939AD
TrungTrac and TrungNhi, martyred sisters
European Intervention
A. Portuguese traders arrived around 1500's
B. Dutch-English, French (tried to conquer Vietnam and failed)
C. French rule 1862, Pacification Program killing leaders
D. Influence of western intellectuals, Locke, Rousseau, Chinese
intellectual SunYat-Sen
E. Revolutionary movement in Vietnam - Reformation Society
F. Uprisings of 1930-1931, Phan Boi Chau- destroyed by French
Bibliography
South Vietnam on Trial 1970-1972
David Fulghum and Terrance Maitland
Boston Publishing, Boston, MA
Vietnam at War
Philip B. Davidson
Oxford Press, New York and Oxford
Nixon's Vietnam War
Jeffrey Kimball
University of Kansas Press 1998
Westmoreland
Samuel Zaffiri
William Morrow and Co., New York
No Peace, No Honor, Nixon, Kissinger Betrayal in Vietnam
Larry Berman
Free Press, New York 2001