Download or read book Going Indochinese written by Christopher E. Goscha and published by NIAS Classics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Javanese become Indonesian in 1945 while the Vietnamese balked at becoming Indochinese? Goscha shows that Vietnamese of all political colours came close to building a modern national identity on the colonial model of Indochina, while Lao and Cambodian nationalists rejected this because it represented a Vietnamese entity.