Pierre Brocheux


Pierre Brocheux was a Vietnamese-French historian and editor. He specialized in the history of Vietnam and of French Indochina.

Biography

Brocheux was born in Cholon in French Indochina on 18 May 1931 to a French father and a Vietnamese-French mother. He attended primary and secondary school in Saigon and Paris. A certified professor, he taught history and geography to secondary school students in Saigon from 1960 to 1968. He then taught the same subject at a secondary technical school in Vitry-sur-Seine from 1968 to 1970.
Brocheux earned a doctorate in history from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1969. Afterwards, he worked as a lecturer at Paris Diderot University from 1970 to 1997. From 1989 to 2001, he was editor-in-chief of Revue de l'histoire des colonies françaises. In 1994, he co-founded the Association française des chercheurs sur l'Asie du Sud-Est, of which he served as president from 1994 to 1997.
Brocheux died on 25 December 2022, at the age of 91.

Publications

  • Histoire de l'Asie du Sud-Est : révoltes, réformes et révolutions
  • Indochine, la colonisation ambiguë
  • Hô Chi Minh
  • Viet Nam Exposé.French Scholarship on Twentieth Century Vietnamese Society
  • Hô Chi Minh, du révolutionnaire à l’icône
  • Une histoire économique du Viet Nam : 1850-2007 : la palanche et le camion
  • The Mekong Delta. Ecology, Economy and Revolution. 1860-1960
  • Histoire du Vietnam contemporain : la nation résiliente
  • ''Les décolonisations au XXe siècle : la fin des empires européens et japonais''