Martyrs of Development: Taiwanese Agrarian Development and the Republic of Vietnam, 1959–1975

Q2 Arts and Humanities
James Lin
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abstract:In 1959, the Republic of China (ROC) government on Taiwan enacted its first international agrarian development mission to the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). The mission began modestly to assist primarily with crop improvement and farmers' associations. But by the fall of the RVN in 1975, Taiwanese development constituted a global project of the authoritarian Guomindang (GMD) regime to redefine Taiwan's place in the world. This article explores the sixteen-year span of missions to Vietnam, drawing on reports by Taiwanese agricultural team leaders, oral history interviews with Taiwanese technicians, Taiwanese and Vietnamese policy documents, and visual and propaganda materials published by the GMD and overseas Chinese. Agrarian development became a platform through which the ROC represented Taiwanese success at agricultural science and rural modernity. Taiwanese technicians showcased high-yielding crop varieties, large and luscious green vegetables, and rationalized agricultural implements. Simultaneously, Taiwanese teams also emphasized their rural roots, through an expertise in forming farmers' associations that appealed to RVN leadership seeking to battle communist insurgency. These representations of success and sacrifice allowed the GMD regime to portray the ROC as leading a global vanguard of developing nations, all toward the goal of securing its legitimacy at home as a developmentalist regime.
发展的烈士:台湾农业发展与越南共和国,1959-1975
摘要:1959年,中华民国台湾政府首次向越南派遣国际农业发展代表团。特派团一开始只是适度地协助作物改良和农民协会。但到1975年RVN垮台时,台湾的发展构成了威权的国民党(GMD)政权的全球项目,以重新定义台湾在世界上的地位。本文利用台湾农业队队长的报告、对台湾技术人员的口述历史采访、台湾和越南的政策文件,以及GMD和海外华人出版的视觉和宣传材料,探讨了访问越南的16年时间。农业的发展成为台湾在农业科学和农村现代化方面取得成功的一个平台。台湾技术人员展示了高产作物品种、大而美味的绿色蔬菜和合理的农具。与此同时,台湾团队还强调了他们的农村根源,通过组建农民协会的专业知识,吸引了寻求打击共产主义叛乱的RVN领导层。这些成功和牺牲的表现使GMD政权将中华民国描绘成发展中国家的全球先锋,所有这些都是为了确保其作为发展主义政权在国内的合法性。
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