Phan Huy Lê (Thạch Châu, Lộc Hà district, Hà Tĩnh province, 23 February 1934 – 23 June 2018) was a Vietnamese historian and professor of history at the Hanoi National University.
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He authored of many studies on village society, landholding patterns and peasant revolution in particular, and in Vietnamese history in general.[1][2]
Phan was director of the Center for Vietnamese and Intercultural Studies at Vietnam National University, Hanoi.[3]
Phan belonged to the school of historians, including also Trần Quốc Vượng distinguishing 'Vietnamese-ness' without relation to Chinese influences.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Liber amicorum: mélanges offerts au professeur Phan Huy Lê - John Kleinen, Philippe Papin, Huy Lê Phan - 1999
- ^ Việt Nam: Borderless Histories - Page 4 Nhung Tuyet Tran, Anthony Reid - 2006 "A key figure in the dialogue is Professor Phan Huy Lê, doyen of Vietnamese historians and heir of a famous literati family, whose career has spanned the evolution of independent ViӾt Nam's historiography."
- ^ Gender, Household and State in Post-revolutionary Vietnam - Page 5 Jayne Werner - 2008 "Phan Huy Lê, a noted historian and director of the Center for Vietnamese and Intercultural Studies at Vietnam National University, Hanoi, based on a number of considerations."
- ^ Marie-Carine Lall, Edward Vickers - Education As a Political Tool in Asia - Page 149 2009 "Already since 1954, with a new generation of modern Vietnamese historians (Trần Quốc Vượng, Phan Huy Lê etc.), 'Vietnamese-ness' had been clearly considered as having no relation with Chinese influences. "
- ^ Patricia M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past - Page 50 "Phan Huy Lê—published two pathbreaking studies, Primitive Communism and The History of Feudalism, from which ..."