Bibliotactics – Cindy Anh Nguyen

He remarked that other countries such as Russia, the United States, Germany, and England and their colonies had prioritized the development of lending libraries and circulating libraries. After many delays, the bibliobus project in France finally began to circulate officially in limited capacity in September 1933, departing from Soissons in northern France.45 To inaugurate the bibliobus, the mayor of Soissons invited Henri Lemaître to give a public talk in which he expounded upon the benefits of this circulating library and called for other towns to follow the example of Soissons.

The development of public libraries and book vehicles proceeded much more slowly in France compared to that it England, the United States, and the Dutch East Indies. The bibliobus in Indochina was more frequently organized, highly publicized, and widely utilized by a range of provincial readers throughout the 1930s and 1940s. On one hand, the difference could be attributed to a variety of administrative and fiscal challenges in the metropole to support the development of public libraries and the bibliobus project.46 On the other hand, the comparative successful implementation of the bibliobus project in Indochina points to the leadership of Paul Boudet in carrying out the elaborate logistical labor of book transportation and tactical methods to gain political support from colonial official to instrumentalize the colonial libraries for French cultural propaganda.47 What was the on- the-ground use and public reception of the circulating libraries throughout Cochinchina?

I uncover how the book vehicle project enmeshed Cochinchinese provincial readers within a global circulation of French translated classics and bestsellers as well as the burgeoning Vietnamese quốc ngữ urban publishing sphere. On the afternoon of Saturday, February 22, 1936, Edouard Marquis from the Cochinchina Press Office and Saint-Marty, the curator of the Cochinchina Library, brought the inaugural bibliobus to downtown Saigon and stationed it in front of the municipal theater. In a public launch of the bibliobus project, the circulating library began to lend books to anyone present who was interested.

The event was highly publicized and reported in the French- and Vietnamese-language press and described as a positive governmental effort to spread French influence through French literature.48 Another report described the project as an ingenious idea to create a “rolling library” to extend libraries into the countryside beyond Hanoi and Saigon.

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www.luminosoa.org 1kitap1.com/en 1kitap1.com/en The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Philip E. Lilienthal Imprint in Asian Studies, established by a major gift from Sally Lilienthal. 1kitap1.com/en Bibliotactics 1kitap1.com/en 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. ASIA PACIFIC MODERN Takashi Fujitani, Series Editor Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times, by Miriam Silverberg Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific, by Shu-mei Shih The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945, by Theodore Jun Yoo Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines, by John D.

Blanco Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame, by Robert Thomas Tierney Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan, by Andrew D. Morris Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II, by T. Fujitani The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past, by Gail Hershatter A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949, by Tong Lam Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan, by Jonathan E.

Abel Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945, by Todd A. Henry Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan, by Joseph D. Hankins Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan, by Travis Workman Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945– 1952, by Robert Kramm Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945, by Paul D.

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