Hoang Van Chi
Hoàng Văn Chí (1913-1988) was a scholar, working as a revolutionary and diplomat, writing history and political science.
He was born in Thanh Hóa, studied in Hanoi, joined the resistance against the French in 1946, went South in 1955, served in South Vietnam's embassy to India in 1959-1960, emigrated to France in 1960, the US in 1965, and died in Maryland, USA, in 1988. He is best known for a book written in English, From Colonialism to Communism (New York: Praeger, 1964), translated into Vietnamese as Từ thực dân đến cộng sản. His other books include Phật Rơi Lệ (1956); Trăm Hoa Đua Nở Trên Đất Bắc (1959), about the Nhân Văn Giai Phẩm literary dissident group; The New Class in North Vietnam; The Nhân Văn Affair; and Duy Văn Sử Quan (1990).
Linh Dinh started this entry.
Hoàng Văn Chí online
- "Nhớ về một kẻ sĩ thời nay, ông Hoàng Văn Chí (1913-1988)"
- Authors
- Historians
- Political scientists
- Working in English
- Historians composing in English
- Political scientists composing in English
- Working in Vietnamese
- Historians composing in Vietnamese
- Political scientists composing in Vietnamese
- Translated into Vietnamese
- Historians translated into Vietnamese
- Political scientists translated into Vietnamese
- Historians translated from English into Vietnamese
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- Born 1910-1919
- Dead 1980-1989
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- Man born 1910-1919
- Entries started by Linh Dinh
