The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited

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This article revisits the great Vietnam famine of 1944-45 in light of flaws in human agency as well as destabilization stemming from war and conflict. Although the great famine was never construed as a war crime by the Allies, the question of blame, alongside agency or lack of it, was an issue between the French and the Viet Minh in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese surrender and entered into propaganda recriminations. Both Japan and France were blamed. As one of the least well known tragedies arising out of the Pacific War, this article adopts a general truth-seeking approach to the disaster, not only as a contribution to war and memory studies, but equally to the literature on famine prevention.

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  • Annual report

    Annual report 52 81-105, 2011-03-25

    Nagasaki University

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  • CRID
    1573105977678931072
  • NII Article ID
    110009544715
  • NII Book ID
    AN00166496
  • ISSN
    05471443
  • Text Lang
    en
  • Data Source
    • CiNii Articles

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