Ethnoscapes of Exile: Political Prisoners from Indochina in a Colonial Asian World
Ethnoscapes of Exile: Political Prisoners from Indochina in a Colonial Asian World
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流亡的民族景观：亚洲殖民地世界中来自印度支那的政治犯
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2018
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Lorraine Paterson
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Lorraine Paterson
摘要在法国殖民印度支那期间（1863-1954），大约有8,000名囚犯--其中许多人被判犯有政治罪--被流放到法兰西帝国的12个不同的地理位置。这些囚犯中的许多人来自中国背景或文化上的中国世界，他们被流放的地点（甚至是流放地本身）都有散居的中国社区。懂中文可能是他们最大的财富，而能“过”成中国人，则是最有价值的逃亡工具。这篇文章探讨了1913年从法属印度支那被送往法属圭亚那的一群政治犯，以及他们随后在中国居民的帮助下逃跑的情况。从某种意义上说，如果流放是殖民权力的最终行使--能够将尸体转移到遥远的地方--那么通过越南人的透镜来审视这些生活，就会发现一个与殖民档案记录截然不同的故事。
ABSTRACT During the French colonization of Indochina (1863–1954), approximately 8,000 prisoners – many of them convicted of political crimes – were exiled to twelve different geographical locations throughout the French empire. Many of these prisoners came from a Chinese background or a culturally Chinese world, and the sites to which they were exiled (even the penal colonies themselves) contained diasporic Chinese communities. Knowing Chinese might be their greatest asset, or being able to “pass” as Chinese the most valuable tool to facilitate escape. This article explores a group of political prisoners sent from French Indochina to French Guiana in 1913 and their subsequent escape, with the aid of Chinese residents. If exile is, in one sense, the ultimate exercise of colonial power – capable of moving bodies to distant locales – examining these lives through a Vietnamese lens reveals a very different story than the colonial archival record reflects.