Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair
late-1950s North Vietnamese cultural-political movement
The Nhân văn – Giai phẩm (Vietnamese: Phong trào Nhân văn – Giai phẩm) was a cultural and political movement in North Vietnam from 1955 to early 1957. Two periodicals were established during that time, Nhân văn (Vietnamese: [ɲən van], Humanities) and Giai phẩm (Vietnamese: [zaːj fə᷉m], Masterpieces), many issues of which were published demanding freedom of speech, creativity and human rights. Following a loosening of political restrictions with some similarities to the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, there was a hardening of attitudes. After those two major journals were closed down, their associates were imprisoned or reeducated. Authors affiliated with the Nhân văn–Giai phẩm movement were condemned by the government as "reactionary".
Historical Contexts
1954 Geneva Accords
The 1954 Geneva Accords marked the end of anti-French struggle and provided the Viet Minh with prestige and authority in Northern half of Vietnam. After the close of the Geneva Conference, the Vietnamese Workers' Party (VWP) faced two fundamental tasks: to reconstruct the north and to unify the south. To rebuild the north, the VWP leadership continued to look to China for assistance and China immediately began to offer aid to help the DRV. But the reconstruction efforts in the DRV following the First Indochina War underwent many trials and tribulations. The 1954 Geneva Accords on Nhan Van-Giai Pham facilitated enormous emigration from the north to the south from July 1954 to May 1955.
The Rise of de-Stalinization
The key global preludes of Nhan Van-Giai Pham affair may be located in the ups and downs of reform and repression that dominated political life in the Eastern Bloc and China throughout the turbulent years of the 1950s.
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