Until recently, virtually all information about the past in Vietnam was produced by scholars working for the state, mainly university professors, and published in print media. In recent years, however, private individuals have begun to make use of the Internet to offer new perspectives on the Vietnamese past, and in some cases to print their work. Some of these amateur historians have now produced a new narrative about Vietnamese prehistory. This narrative presents an extremely positive view of the history of the ancient ancestors of the Vietnamese, seeing them as essentially the founders of East Asian civilisation. While some aspects of this narrative were first proposed by South Vietnamese philosopher Lương Kim Định in the 1960s, amateur Vietnamese historians in the diaspora around the turn of the 21st century added what they argued were “scientific” findings of “international” scholars to this narrative. Finally, scholars in Vietnam accessed these ideas through the Internet and synthesised them with the works of scholars working in Vietnam. This spread of ideas from South Vietnam into the diaspora and then back to Vietnam via the Internet offers a fascinating insight into the ways in which communication in the Digital Age has enabled some authors from the previously divided worlds of Vietnam and the diaspora to find common ground to promote a nationalistic vision of the distant past IJAPS, Vol. 16, No. 1, 71–104, 2020 The Centrality of “Fringe History” 72 out of a shared desire to create a strong cultural and philosophical foundation that will enable Vietnamese to thrive in the global age.

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“边缘史”的中心：侨民，互联网和越南史前史的新版本

直到最近，越南过去的几乎所有信息都是由为该州工作的学者（主要是大学教授）提供的，并在印刷媒体上发表。但是，近年来，私人开始利用互联网为越南的过去提供新的观点，并在某些情况下印制他们的作品。这些业余历史学家中的一些人现在对越南史前史有了新的叙述。这种叙述对越南古代祖先的历史提出了极为积极的看法，认为他们实质上是东亚文明的奠基人。虽然这种叙述的某些方面是由南越哲学家LươngKimĐịnh在1960年代首次提出的，在21世纪之交的散居海外的越南业余历史学家在此叙述中增加了他们认为是“国际”学者的“科学”发现。最后，越南学者通过互联网访问了这些想法，并将它们与在越南工作的学者的作品进行了综合。这些想法从越南南方传播到海外侨民，然后通过互联网传回越南，这使人们对数字时代的交流方式产生了令人着迷的见解，这些方式使越南和海外侨民先前分裂的世界中的一些作者得以找到共同点。促进对遥远过去的IJAPS的民族主义视野。16号，第1号，71-104，