TY - JOUR
T1 - Two intellectual paths that cross the borders
T2 - Nguyen Huy Quy, Phan Van Cac, and humanities in Vietnam's Chinese studies
AU - Shih, Chih Yu
AU - Chou, Chih Chieh
AU - Nguyen, Hoai Thu
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To trace the contemporary intellectual trajectory that has an origin in preindependence Vietnam, this paper uses an oral history interview as methodology. Both Nguyen and Phan were interviewed by Thi Hue Phung in 2008 who was at the time in charge of the oral history of sinology sponsored by the Center for Mainland China and Cross-Strait Relations of the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University. The interviews were recorded and conducted in Vietnamese. They were later translated to Chinese in Taiwan.
PY - 2014/6
Y1 - 2014/6
N2 - The intellectual paths of two Vietnamese sinologists, Nguyen Huy Quy and Phan Van Cac, tell a distinctive history of Confucian scholarship in Vietnam. Through their intellectual growth, we hope to show how humanities have survived political upheavals of and between the two countries and returned in the process of national reform. The perseverance of humanist concerns demonstrates the relevance of individual determination in the evolution of Vietnamese scholarship on China, indicating an epistemological agency to transcend politics. Three particular aspects emerge as critical in the evolution of their scholarship: family, travelling, and determination. The mechanisms of historical cycles, strategic silencing, self-learning, and human judgment connect the individual paths to the larger historical context of Vietnamese sinology.
AB - The intellectual paths of two Vietnamese sinologists, Nguyen Huy Quy and Phan Van Cac, tell a distinctive history of Confucian scholarship in Vietnam. Through their intellectual growth, we hope to show how humanities have survived political upheavals of and between the two countries and returned in the process of national reform. The perseverance of humanist concerns demonstrates the relevance of individual determination in the evolution of Vietnamese scholarship on China, indicating an epistemological agency to transcend politics. Three particular aspects emerge as critical in the evolution of their scholarship: family, travelling, and determination. The mechanisms of historical cycles, strategic silencing, self-learning, and human judgment connect the individual paths to the larger historical context of Vietnamese sinology.
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U2 - 10.1007/s12140-014-9207-1
DO - 10.1007/s12140-014-9207-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84906887073
SN - 1096-6838
VL - 31
SP - 123
EP - 138
JO - East Asia
JF - East Asia
IS - 2
ER -