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The Other Side of the 1945 Vietnamese Revolution: The Empire of Viet-Nam (March–August 1945)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Vu Ngu Chieu
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On March 9, 1945, the Japanese terminated French rule in Indochina and gave Viet-Nam its first “independent” government. As an accident of history, and although composed chiefly of technicians and professionals, the government of Tran Trong Kim unexpectedly carried out a partial revolution from above—characterized by the Vietnamization (Viet Nam hoa) of nearly all French-imposed institutions—and regained territorial unification for Viet-Nam, only to see the fruits reaped by Ho Chi Minh in August 1945. Kim's Empire of Viet-Nam was one side of the Vietnamese nationalist revolutionary coin; the reverse was Ho's Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , February 1986 , pp. 293 - 328
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986

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