An Educational Regime of Truth for Social Reform in Late Colonial Vietnam: The Journalistic Art of the Possible in Phụ nữ tân văn’s “Travel Stories” and “Letters for You”
摘要
This chapter examines the presentation of the woman question in Vietnamese journalism in the 1920s–1930s. It spotlights how two columns in the paper Women’s News (Phụ nữ tân văn), “Travel Stories” (Du ký), and “Letters for You” (Thơ cho bạn), fabricated, in a journalistic manner, internationally minded and socially engaged woman figures for a modern Vietnam through authorial modalities of openness and female impersonation. Based on an analysis of the columns and their context, the chapter identifies what can be called an educational regime of truth for social reform in late colonial Vietnam in these journalistic works.