This paper examines the book "
Revolution in the Village" by Hy V. Luong. It shows how the colonial era changed life in the
villages of Vietnam and continued to do so into the 1930s, a time when there were increasing actions being taken to oust the French, with the French fighting back. It discusses how both sides made use of the village structure and altered village life as they sought to achieve their goals. It analyzes the long history of the development of anti-colonialism in Vietnam and the Yen-Bay uprising. It looks at how Luong argues that local traditions played an important role on shaping the response of villagers to both the imposition of colonial
capitalism and to the socialist polices of the Vietnamese
revolution and sets out to prove the logical connection.