VIETX4 History of Vietnam II.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Srba, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Monday 15:50–17:25 J21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
At the end of the course the students should be able to understand the history of modern Vietnam (including the chronology and internal development of the country) in relation to other countries of Southeast Asia. Students will have basic informations about the influence of colonial powers and wars of the 19th and 20th centuries on contemporary Vietnam.
Syllabus
  • 1. Portuguese and Jesuits in Vietnam. 2. Contacts with colonial powers. 3. French invasion and domination. 4. Limits of colonial development in French Indochina. 5. Vietnamese national revival, modernisation, birth of Vietnamese communism and other political parties. Forms of Vietnamese resistence against the French. 6. Worsening of ecomonics before the World War II. 7. Vietnamese democratic republic, division into Northern and Southern Vietnam. 8. International influences in Northern and Southern Vietnam. 9. American war in Vietnam. 10. Reunification of Vietnam. 11. Contemporary postwar modernization and development. 12. History of Vietnamese in foreign countries.
Literature
    required literature
  • HLAVATÁ, Lucie. Dějiny Vietnamu. Vyd. 1. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2008, 357 s. ISBN 9788071069652. info
    recommended literature
  • MÜLLEROVÁ, Petra. Vietnam. Praha: Libri, 2004.
  • NGUYEN, Khac Vien. Vietnam. A Long History. Hanoi: The Gioi Publishers, 1993.
    not specified
  • DUIKER, William J. Ho Či Min – životopis. Překl. J. Filipský. Praha: BBart, 2003.
  • VO, Nguyen Giap. Národně osvobozenecká válka ve Vietnamu. Generální linie, strategie a taktika. Praha: Naše vojsko, 1971.
  • TAYLOR, K. W. A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • FREY, Marc. Dějiny vietnamské války: tragédie v Asii a konec amerického snu. Přel. V. Maidl. Praha: Paseka, 2003.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Short written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
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