Dang Phong
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Đặng Phong born in Hà Tây province
, Vietnam
, is a historian
specialized in Vietnam's economic history
of the 19th and 20th centuries. He graduated from Hanoi University
, Faculty of History, in 1960, National Economics University, Planning Faculty, in 1964 and Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier) http://www.iamm.fr/ in 1991. He wrote many articles and books about Vietnam's economic history during the French colonization period, South Vietnam
, the centrally planned economy period, and more recently on the "Doi Moi" (reform) in Vietnam.
Dang Phong worked as researcher at the Institute of Economics, Vietnam's Academy of Social Sciences http://www.vass.gov.vn/, from 1961 to 2000. He also taught at the Hanoi University of Business and Technology http://www.hubt.edu.vn/vi/ from 1996 to 2009. For his vast knowledge, he has also been visiting scholar to various universities around the world.
He is internationally recognized as the leading scholar of twentieth-century Vietnamese history among his generation in Vietnam. He has also been author of various articles in the media, including the BBC in Vietnamese.
Đặng Phong died of cancer on 20 August 2010.
Early Life
Đặng Phong was the second of the two sons of a colonial official and a teacher. His youth was marked by the following historical events, of which he was a witness:
• US bombs against Japanese interests in Hanoi and the Tonkin famine (1944),
• the August revolution and Declaration of Independence in Hanoi (1945),
• evacuation from Hanoi on the outbreak of the Indochina War (1946),
• events of war in the countryside (1947-1954),
• Việt Minh reoccupation of Hanoi (1954).
His father's decision to join the Việt Minh in 1944 influenced his education, which he received by night in the 'liberated zone' from 1947-1954. After independence, he studied at Hanoi University and took a BA in history in 1960. Aged twenty-three he was employed by the Institute of Economics. His interest in economic history dates from this time.
Public Service and Career
In 1965, American bombings started and he was evacuated to a village in Bắc Giang province. In 1967, he was sent as soldier and war correspondent on the southern front (Khe Sanh, Quảng Trị province). Wounded, he returned to Hanoi in 1968.
Upon Vietnam's reunification, he conducted research in Saigon (May-September 1975), and presented a report to the Institute of Economics on US aid to South Vietnam.
In 1983, he was appointed to the State Committee for Markets and Prices, an economic analysis agency above ministerial rank, where he established the journal Markets and Prices Review. In 1988, this agency assigned him to compete for a scholarship to France, which he won, and spent a year at the Institut Agricole Méditerranéen in Montpellier.
In 1995, he returned to the Institute of Economics, and signed a contract with the same institute after his formal retirement in 2003. He signed a similar contract with his second employer, the Hanoi University of Business and Technology. He co-authors books with Professor Đỗ Hoài Nam (President of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences) and serves as personal assistant to Mr Võ Văn Kiệt (Prime Minister of Vietnam, 1991-1996).
His major works include:
Ha Tay Province
Hà Tây is a former province of Vietnam, in the Red River Delta, now part of Hanoi. On May 29, 2008, it was decided that Ha Tay would merge with Hanoi province on August 1, 2008.- Geography :...
, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, is a historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
specialized in Vietnam's economic history
Economic history
Economic history is the study of economies or economic phenomena in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and by applying economic theory to historical situations and institutions...
of the 19th and 20th centuries. He graduated from Hanoi University
Hanoi University
Hanoi University is a university in Hanoi, that specializes in language teaching including English, Japanese, Chinese, German, French, Russian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian....
, Faculty of History, in 1960, National Economics University, Planning Faculty, in 1964 and Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier) http://www.iamm.fr/ in 1991. He wrote many articles and books about Vietnam's economic history during the French colonization period, South Vietnam
South Vietnam
South Vietnam was a state which governed southern Vietnam until 1975. It received international recognition in 1950 as the "State of Vietnam" and later as the "Republic of Vietnam" . Its capital was Saigon...
, the centrally planned economy period, and more recently on the "Doi Moi" (reform) in Vietnam.
Dang Phong worked as researcher at the Institute of Economics, Vietnam's Academy of Social Sciences http://www.vass.gov.vn/, from 1961 to 2000. He also taught at the Hanoi University of Business and Technology http://www.hubt.edu.vn/vi/ from 1996 to 2009. For his vast knowledge, he has also been visiting scholar to various universities around the world.
He is internationally recognized as the leading scholar of twentieth-century Vietnamese history among his generation in Vietnam. He has also been author of various articles in the media, including the BBC in Vietnamese.
Đặng Phong died of cancer on 20 August 2010.
Early Life
Đặng Phong was the second of the two sons of a colonial official and a teacher. His youth was marked by the following historical events, of which he was a witness:
• US bombs against Japanese interests in Hanoi and the Tonkin famine (1944),
• the August revolution and Declaration of Independence in Hanoi (1945),
• evacuation from Hanoi on the outbreak of the Indochina War (1946),
• events of war in the countryside (1947-1954),
• Việt Minh reoccupation of Hanoi (1954).
His father's decision to join the Việt Minh in 1944 influenced his education, which he received by night in the 'liberated zone' from 1947-1954. After independence, he studied at Hanoi University and took a BA in history in 1960. Aged twenty-three he was employed by the Institute of Economics. His interest in economic history dates from this time.
Public Service and Career
In 1965, American bombings started and he was evacuated to a village in Bắc Giang province. In 1967, he was sent as soldier and war correspondent on the southern front (Khe Sanh, Quảng Trị province). Wounded, he returned to Hanoi in 1968.
Upon Vietnam's reunification, he conducted research in Saigon (May-September 1975), and presented a report to the Institute of Economics on US aid to South Vietnam.
In 1983, he was appointed to the State Committee for Markets and Prices, an economic analysis agency above ministerial rank, where he established the journal Markets and Prices Review. In 1988, this agency assigned him to compete for a scholarship to France, which he won, and spent a year at the Institut Agricole Méditerranéen in Montpellier.
In 1995, he returned to the Institute of Economics, and signed a contract with the same institute after his formal retirement in 2003. He signed a similar contract with his second employer, the Hanoi University of Business and Technology. He co-authors books with Professor Đỗ Hoài Nam (President of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences) and serves as personal assistant to Mr Võ Văn Kiệt (Prime Minister of Vietnam, 1991-1996).
His major works include:
- The Primitive EconomyEconomyAn economy consists of the economic system of a country or other area; the labor, capital and land resources; and the manufacturing, trade, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of that area...
in Vietnam, Social Science Publishing House (NXB Khoa học Xã hội), Hanoi, 1970; - The Communal Land System in Vietnam and the Asian Mode of Production, Social Science Publishing House (NXB Khoa học Xã hội), Hanoi, 102p., 1976;
- Twenty-One Years of American Aid in (South) Vietnam, Information Publishing House (NXB Thông Tin),1991;
- The Private Sector in Vietnamese Industries from 1945 to the Present, in Private Sector Discussions, MekongMekongThe Mekong is a river that runs through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. It is the world's 10th-longest river and the 7th-longest in Asia. Its estimated length is , and it drains an area of , discharging of water annually....
Project Development Facility, International Finance CorporationInternational Finance CorporationThe International Finance Corporation promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries.IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States....
, World BankWorld BankThe World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
Group, Hanoi, 1999, pp. 73–90. - Part II: The Development of unofficial Trade and Aid, 1976–1996, in Ðặng Phong and Melanie Beresford http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/contact_the_faculty/staff/alphabetical_list_of_staff/melanie_beresford, Economic Transition in Vietnam: Aid and Trade in the DemiseDemiseDemise, in its original meaning, is an Anglo-Norman legal term for a transfer of an estate, especially by lease...
of a Centrally Planned EconomyPlanned economyA planned economy is an economic system in which decisions regarding production and investment are embodied in a plan formulated by a central authority, usually by a government agency...
, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA, USA, pp. 69–161, 2000; - Comparison of Economic Reform Between ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
and Vietnam (co-authored); - Authority relations and economic decision-making in Vietnam : a historical perspective (co-authored with Melanie Beresford), Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS)http://nias.ku.dk/ 1998, NIAS series no. 38
- Long An, a Break-Through into Market Economy (co-authored with Ngoc Thanh);
- Break-Through Steps of An Giang on the Way to Reform;
- History of the State Bank of VietnamState Bank of VietnamThe State Bank of Vietnam is the central bank of Vietnam.-History:When French Indochina was under French rule, the colonial government governed the Indochinese monetary system through Indochinese Bank, which also acted as a commercial bank in French Indochina...
, 1945–2005, The National Political Publishing House (NXB Chính trị Quốc gia), Hanoi, 2007; - Vietnam's Economic History,1945–2005, Vol. 1: 1945-1954], preface by Do Hoai Nam, Social Science Publishing House (NXB Khoa học Xã hội), 662p., Hanoi, 2002;
- Vietnam's Economic History, the Economy of the South, 1954–1975, Social Science Publishing House (NXB Khoa học Xã hội), Hanoi, 2004;
- Vietnam's Economic History, 1945–2000, Vol. 2.: 1955-1975: Vietnam Academy of Social Science http://www.vass.gov.vn/, Social Science Publishing House (NXB Khoa học Xã hội), 2005;
- MonographMonographA monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...
of Thai Nguyen ProvinceThai Nguyen ProvinceThái Nguyên is a province in northeastern Vietnam. It is a mountainous, midland province with natural area of 3534.45 square kilometres and a population of 1,149,100 people as of 2008...
,The National Political Publishing House (NXB Chính trị Quốc gia), Hanoi 2005; - Fifty-Year History of the Vietnam Investment and Development Bank, 1957–2007, The National Political Publishing House (NXB Chính trị Quốc gia), Hanoi 2007;
- Two-Century History of Markets and Prices in Vietnam (early nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries), The National Political Publishing House (NXB Chính trị Quốc gia), Hanoi 2007;
- Vietnam's Economic Mindset: A Daunting and Spectacular Road, 1975-1989
- The Five Ho Chi Minh TrailHo Chi Minh trailThe Ho Chi Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia...
s, - Stories of Thang Long - Ha Noi Through One Street, Intellect Publishing House (Nhà Xuất Bản Trí Thức), Ha Noi, 2010
External links
- Vietnam's Academy of Social Sciences http://www.vass.gov.vn/
- Hanoi University of Business and Technology http://www.hubt.edu.vn/vi/
- Macquarie University, Faculty of Business and Economics http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/contact_the_faculty/staff/alphabetical_list_of_staff/melanie_beresford
- Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier http://www.iamm.fr/