1. Full name: NGUYEN MANH DUNG
2. Sex: Male
3. Date of birth: 02-11-1980
4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Admission decision number: 4152/QĐ-SĐH by the President of VNU
6. Dated on July 15th, 2008
7. Official thesis title:
The French Penetration of Vietnam from the Late Seventeenth Century to the Middle Nineteenth Century - Causes and Consequences
8. Major: Early Modern and Modern World History
9. Code: 62 22 50 05
10. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim
11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:
The French and Western powers in the mutual competition aiming at expanding their international forces to Far East created a spreading flow, followed by economic - cultural acculturation. Given the common regional characteristics, both favorableness and challenges, Vietnam was gradually located a choice-making point of the France's extension and expansion. The long-time and solid presence of the French in Vietnam was grateful for the important roles of the missionaries, the Catholic Church and a firm local base. The main factors have partially overcome the recessions at the various stages of difficulty. At the time, the French still enabled to develop and maintain their positions in the cultural religious life.
General speaking, this is considered a process of the "dual exchanges", clearly expresses the nature of the French presence throughout centuries in East Asia. Bonding trading activities with missionary one, later paving the way to schemes which caused political influences, the mid-nineteenth century military interventions of the French brought about the political-social consequences in which there had cultural-social conflicts, especially by increasing persecutions in the nineteenth century Nguyen Vietnam, and afterwards.
The thesis reconstructs a general picture and clarifies the relationships between pre-colonial period France and Vietnam. The thesis provides very clear insights on the causes and consequences of the French penetration of Vietnam from the late of the seventeenth century to mid-nineteenth century, explains why and in which circumstance Vietnam became the subject of the French invasion, and more importantly seeks to fill up the "vacuum" in historical perspective through history.
12. Thesis-related publications:
1) Nguyen Manh Dung (2006), "Trade Activities of the French East India Company in Great Viet (Second Haft of 17th Century - Mid of 18th century)", Journal of Historical studies, VASS, No.9 (365), pp.51-64 (in Vietnamese).
2) Nguyen Manh Dung (2007), "On Trade Activities of the French East India Company in Siam in the Second Haft of 17th Century", Journal of Historical studies, VASS, No.4 (372), pp.35-48 (in Vietnamese)
3) Nguyen Manh Dung (2007), "Process of Propagating the Catholicism as seen from the French-Vietnamese contacts in 17th-18th Centuries", Journal of Religious studies, VASS, No.9 (51), pp.36-44 (in Vietnamese).
4) Nguyen Manh Dung (2008), "French - Vietnamese Contacts in 17th-19th centuries in Retrospect", Journal of Religious studies, VASS, Vol 2, No.2, pp. 35-44 (in English).
5) Nguyen Manh Dung (2008), "Transnationalism and Multiethnicity in the Early Nguyen Anh Gia Long Period" - Another View on the Vietnamese History in the Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries,Journal of Historical studies, VASS, 7 (387), pp.68-79, 64 (in Vietnamese).
6) Nguyen Manh Dung (2009), "Some Remarks on Catholic Researches in Vietnam",Journal of Religious studies, VASS, 5 (71), pp.44-52 (in Vietnamese).
7) Nguyen Manh Dung (2009), "East-Northern Region of Vietnam in East-Asian Sea Routes, Eighth - Eighteenth Centuries (As Seen from Portuguese and French Sources of Materials)", Journal for Southeast Asian Studies, VASS, No.9 (114), pp.40-53 (in Vietnamese).
8) Nguyen Manh Dung (2009), "The End of "Age of Cochinchina" - The Collapse of A Model?", Journal of Social sciences of the South Vietnam Institute of Sustainable Development, No.12 (136), pp.70-79 (in Vietnamese).
9) Nguyen Manh Dung (2009), "On the Voyage of Pierre Poivre to Eighteenth Century Cochinchina - A Reappraisal", Journal of Historical studies, VASS, No.12 (404), pp.36-47 (in Vietnamese).
10) Nguyen Manh Dung (2010), "Some Features on Catholic Research in Vietnam", Religious Studies Review, No.4 (1), pp.65-75 (in English).
11) Nguyen Manh Dung (2010), "On the Mercantilism in Sixteenth - Seventeenth Centuries France", Journal of European studies,No.7 (118), pp.50-60 (in Vietnamese).
