Social Organization and Confucian Thought in Vietnam

Whitmore, John K.

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“…3 See Whitmore (1984) for an analysis of Vietnamese neo-Confucianism. 4 Shohet (2017) examines a case in which filial piety demands romantic love in central Vietnam.…”

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The anxiety of romantic love in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Tran

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article examines the role of anxieties about romantic love in the modernist self‐making projects of Vietnam's growing middle class. Romantic ideals and discourses that emerged from Vietnam's neoliberal reforms emphasize personal compatibility through emotional intimacy and communication. Middle‐class residents of Ho Chi Minh City increasingly privilege the emotions in daily life and define themselves and their relationships in an affective register. This cultivation of emotional self‐reflexivity has, however, become a source of anxiety about the self. An analysis of two case studies traces how individuals draw on their class, gender, and age to negotiate conflicts between various models of love and selfhood and reinvent romantic discourses to claim their own versions of a modern identity. A critical component of both the experience of romantic love and the construction of middle‐class Vietnamese selfhood, love anxiety stems not just from people's changed relations to others but also from a changed perception of the self, which has been rendered unrecognizable to them.

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“…3 See Whitmore (1984) for an analysis of Vietnamese neo-Confucianism. 4 Shohet (2017) examines a case in which filial piety demands romantic love in central Vietnam.…”

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The anxiety of romantic love in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Tran

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…By the fifteenth century Đại Việt shared many patterns with its Southeast Asian neighbours; Mahayana Buddhism and the spirit cult were the main forms of popular beliefs. Chinese NeoConfucianism with its rigid moralistic ideology only began to have a more significant impact in the Lê period ( [58], p. 298; see also [59], p.11-12; [52]). …”

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From Spiritual Homes to National Shrines: Religious Traditions and Nation-Building in Vietnam

Roszko

2011

East Asia

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As in China and Soviet Russia, religion in Vietnam was considered to be harmful superstition. However, a glimpse into the Governmental Gazette -Công Báo -displays the important transformation of the state's policy toward religion that became translated into national representation. While this article focuses on nationbuilding as a dynamic cultural process that leads to the promotion of selected religious practices as 'national heritage,' it also explores the state-society relationship beyond binaries. By looking at religious spaces and local communities I argue that in Vietnam religion is a powerful form of nation-building process and constitutes a creative space in which different actors exercise their agency beyond resistance and accommodation.Visitors to Vietnam might find themselves confused by the diversity of venerated spirits and gods who exist in multiple variations in many localities, dwelling in mountains, forests, rivers and the sea. Like saints worshipped by Catholic believers, many of those spirits were born as humans and their biographies were marked by unusual events. However, in contrast to Christian saints, in their earthly existence Vietnamese spirits were neither ascetic nor austere. Therefore, the visitors would be astonished to find that violent and enigmatic death that breaks the natural order, such East Asia (2012) 29:25-41

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“…Vietnam has been often portrayed as a country modeled after its northern neighbor due to the thousand years of Chinese domination. The Le dynasty from 1428 to 1788 actively utilized Confucian morals and principles to govern the nation (Whitmore, 1984). Chinese influence was found in a major law code of Vietnam in the pre-colonial period.…”

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“…However, little empirical research has yet examined cultural norms on family and gender roles among contemporary Vietnamese. Most of the literature on Vietnamese families has focused on precolonial Vietnamese families in terms of Confucian influence (e.g., Whitmore, 1984;Yu, 1997). Furthermore, it is even rarer how cultural norms of family and gender roles in Vietnam and Korea are similar or dissimilar.…”

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Family Attitudes and Gender Role Divisions of Married Women in Contemporary Vietnam and Korea

Chin¹

2011

International Journal of Human Ecology

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This study attempts to examine family attitudes and gender role divisions of married women in contemporary Vietnam and Korea. Drawing data from the 2003 Vietnam Family Study and the 2005 Korean Marriage and Fertility Study, this study investigated 1) attitudes of married women toward marriage, cohabitation, divorce, and having children, 2) decision making on household expenditures, and 3) household work division between husband and wife. The results showed that married Korean women were less inclined toward traditional family attitudes regarding marriage and children than married Vietnamese women. Decision on routine household expenditures was made and household work was done mostly by the wife in the two countries. In comparison, married Vietnamese men took more responsibilities for important financial decisions and child education than married Korean men. These overall findings imply that patriarchical family and gender role norms were preserved to larger extent in contemporary Vietnam than in Korea.

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Social Organization and Confucian Thought in Vietnam

Cited by 34 publications

References 4 publications

The anxiety of romantic love in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The anxiety of romantic love in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

From Spiritual Homes to National Shrines: Religious Traditions and Nation-Building in Vietnam

Family Attitudes and Gender Role Divisions of Married Women in Contemporary Vietnam and Korea

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